Posts Tagged ‘Prenzlauer Berg’
Prenzlauer Berg: A Personal Memoir
Rhea Boyden offers a personal memoir on life in Prenzlauer Berg through the 90s and beyond... Ellen Riorden, the author's mother. At my secondary school in Ireland there was always a big emphasis on the study of German history and geography, and I always loved both classes. We learned all about Bismarck the Iron Chancellor, the Berlin Airlift, and we learned to draw the route of the River Rhine on a bare map. We studied the details of the most important industries in Germany from [...]
St George’s English Bookshop
Vanessa Remoquillo profiles one of Berlin's longest serving English-language bookstores... It's a Thursday afternoon, and customers are slowly trickling in and out of St George's bookstore in Prenzlauer Berg. A man and his young daughter idly browse the shop's impressive selection of books; the daughter begins to wander, lost in a collection of fairy tales. Two women stand at the front, discussing the merits of old books they want to trade for store credit. I'm sitting with Paul [...]
Mauerpark Karaoke: In Photos
Just about everyone, resident and visitor alike, enjoys the occasional Sunday visit to the buzzy Mauerpark flohmarkt. One of the highlights, aside from the strolling and browsing, is ex-pat Joe Hatchiban's bearpit karaoke sessions, which he began in 2009 in the Mauerpark's stone amphitheatre. Just recently, the local council attempted to restrict the event by allowing only twelve specific (pre-determined) dates per year and tripling the license fee. But public disappointment and outrage about [...]
P-Berg to Prenzlau: A Cycling Trip
Paul Sullivan finds a curious mix of derelict buildings and pretty lakes and forests on a 100km bike ride through the former East Germany... About The Author Paul Sullivan is a Berlin-based writer & travel photographer and the founder of Slow Travel Berlin. You can check out his personal website here and some of his photography galleries here.
Beckett’s Kopf
Grashina Gabelmann experiences expertly-mixed cocktails at this Prenzlauer Berg institution... “When you enter a bar you are meant to leave the rest of the world behind,” claims Oliver Ebert, owner and founder of Prenzlauer Berg cocktail bar Beckett's Kopf. The wrinkly, stern, illuminated face of Beckett himself in the bar's window, the only hint of activity in an otherwise incognito building, urges you to realize this. Adding to the feeling of entering another, more clandestine [...]
In Prenzlauer Berg
Philosopher Justin E. H. Smith takes a stroll around Prenzlauer Berg and ruminates on its (mostly hidden) past... Among the grimmer thoughts one has to contend with on any visit to Berlin is this: that one could very well be staying not only in the logistical nerve center of the Final Solution, but in the very building, and perhaps in the very same room, in which a Holocaust victim once lived. This possibility rose to 50%, in fact, when I was in Berlin a few days ago, and stayed in a [...]
Berlin: City Of Street Art & Graffiti
Simon Arms looks at the development of the Berlin street art and graffiti scene... Art critic Emilie Trice has called Berlin “the graffiti Mecca of the urban art world.” While few people would argue with her, the Berlin street scene is not as radical as her statement suggests. Street art in Berlin is a big industry. It’s not exactly legal, but the city’s title of UNESCO’s City of Design has kept local authorities from doing much to change what observers call the most “bombed” [...]
Lucky Leek
Ruth Michaelson and Itay Lotem give several thumbs up to Prenzlauer Berg's latest vegan venture... The Vegan’s View by Ruth Before you even get to the food, Lucky Leek presents itself as a vastly different vegan eating experience - just by virtue of the light, airy interior and general lack of wind-chimes, woven hemp furniture or thrashing punk music. The interior blends right in to the other upscale, minimalist establishments on Kollwitzstrasse without seeming pretentious or [...]
Boxhagener Platz Food Market
Peggy Schatz finds fine foods and good vibes at Boxhagener Platz's Saturday Food Market... There are almost as many food markets in Berlin as there are districts - each one embedded in its Kiez like a pearl. There are big, shiny ones like the ones on Kollwitzplatz in Prenzlauer Berg and Winterfeldtplatz in Schoeneberg, plus smaller ones that are barely noticed and some wonderfully unique ones in between. One of the best known - and most-loved - markets in Friedrichshain takes place [...]
Memory Vintage (Shop & Café)
Carlijn Potma delves deep into Berlin's Memory Vintage shop & cafe... Everytime I cycle down Schwedter Strasse there is one special place I can’t bear to ride past. Located nearby the busy Schönhauser Allee, Memory Vintage - a curious shop brimmed with things we deem call ‘retro’ - just keeps on luring me in with its nostalgic atmosphere that transports me into the past. Memory is not only a store - the eponymous café next door is part of the business, run by [...]
