Posts Tagged ‘Pankow’
On the Osloer Strasse
Paul Scraton reports on life in his Gesundbrunnen kiez... I It is just past midnight on the Osloer Strasse. I emerge from the U-Bahn station onto the wide, dark boulevard. There are not so many people about. At the corner of Drontheimer Strasse a couple of drunks stagger out from their smoke-filled corner kneipe, bellies full of gassy pilsner and cheap shots of korn. The lights in the kebab stand across the street burn brightly but there are no customers. A few steps up the street [...]
Majakowskiring
Richard Carter takes a trip to Pankow to explore the former houses of the SED politicians... "Entschuldigen Sie, ist das der Sonderzug nach Pankow?" (excuse me, is that the special train to Pankow) sang West German rocker Udo Lindenberg in his 1983 hit Sonderzug nach Pankow. In it, he suggested he'd sit down with East German leader Erich Honecker to ask, over a bottle of Cognac, to be allowed to perform in East Germany. He suggested that Honecker was really a closet rocker who'd don a [...]
Cafe Schönhausen
Pankow's first kindercafe is a colourful and welcoming place... There are many reasons to visit Pankow, one of Berlin's several under-represented boroughs. There’s the pretty Bürgerpark, with its lovely rose pavilions and great cafe ( Rosenstein); the elliptical Majakowskiring, a string of glamorous residences formerly occupied by senior members of the GDR government; the elegant Schloss Schönhausen… Pankow is a good place for families too, visiting or local. Aside from the park [...]
Was ist ein Literaturhaus?
Susan Bernofsky explores Berlin's literature houses... "House of Literature" has a vaguely Eastern Bloc ring to it, but in fact "literature houses" are an important part of the cultural landscape throughout Germany and particularly Berlin, which wound up with three of them after unification and now has four. So what is a Literaturhaus? Generally it's a staffed building devoted to literature, offering a regular reading series (or a number of them) that is open to the public, and it usually [...]
Pinke Panke
A wonderful kids farm and educational playground right next to one of Pankow’s loveliest parks… The evocatively titled Pinke Panke is a fantastic place to take your restless kids for a morning or afternoon - whatever their age. Inaugurated as an educational playground project for local school children back in 1991, the Kinderbauenhof enjoys an atmospheric location right on the river Panke, adjacent to the lovely Bürgerpark. Run by a mix of qualified social workers and volunteers, [...]
