Posts Tagged ‘Schöneberg’
Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin: A Walking Tour
“For Christopher, Berlin meant boys,” goes a memorable line in Christopher Isherwood’s memoir. It is the starting point for Brendan Nash’s walking tour of the area around Nollendorfplatz in Schöneberg, one of Berlin’s oldest gay neighborhoods. Isherwood, whose portrayal of Berlin between the late 1920s and early 1930s gave us the images many of us still associate with this period, lived here during his third visit to the city. While still a student in Cambridge, Isherwood and [...]
Natur-Park Schöneberger Südgelände
The snappily-titled Natur-Park Schöneberger Südgelände is a not-so-well-known 18-hectare urban park at the southern end of Schöneberg. The park has blossomed from the ruins of an old railway hub that was built in the 1890s, and which for 70 years operated as one of the city's busiest (including during WWII). The area was closed and abandoned following the division of the city and nature slowly began to work its magic, reclaiming the old crumbling administrative buildings and rotting [...]
Ixthys
Nathalie Moukarzel visits one of Berlin's smallest Korean restaurants and finds the best Kimchi in town... Ixthys held a sort of mysticism in my mind before I had the pleasure to go and see for myself what it was all about; people spoke of this small restaurant in an unassuming street, with great food, an uncomplicated menu, and Biblical references pasted across the walls, as though it was the Mecca of Korean dining in Berlin. Naturally I had high expectations, and some of them (unusually [...]
Berlin’s Auction Houses
Like antiques and vintage items but tired of the regular flea markets and shops? Carlijn Potma introduces Berlin's auction houses... Berlin is well known for its flea markets and vintage shops. On Sundays we head out to the Mauerpark, Arkonaplatz or Boxhagenerplatz to sniff around their esoteric stalls, while stores brimming with curiosities seem to pop up on a regular basis. But there is another place to find rare antiques, collector´s items and other oddities: the auction [...]
12 Ways To Avoid Valentine’s Day in Berlin
Here at Slow Travel Berlin we believe in love. But while the city's lovers and romantics will find plenty of ways to enjoy Valentine's Day in the city, there are others who won't be drowning in roses and chocolate hearts. Ruth Michaelson offers 12 ideas for singles, incurable un-romantics and those simply not into love's most commercial event... 1. Go to a "Fuck Valentine's Day" Party If there’s one time guaranteed to make the whole world look like it’s Noah’s Ark, where [...]
Berlin’s Three Peaks Challenge
Kevin Braddock and Paul Sullivan take on the Berlin equivalent of the Three Peaks challenge... Grimm head stones in the Alter St-Matthäus-Kirchhof (photo by Paul Sullivan) Successive waves of trauma, division and reconstruction have given Berlin’s outward character a dimension of the arbitrary that’s absent in cities with seemingly “finished” centers like Paris, London and New York. Such was the thrust of a topic embarked upon during a "Slow" walk with the artist Stephen [...]
Winterfeldtplatz Market
Schöneberg’s charming Winterfeldtplatz is home to one of Berlin’s best farmers markets... On most days of the week Schöneberg’s Winterfeldtplatz, named after the Prussian General Hans Karl von Winterfeldt, is a pleasant, leafy square, inhabited mostly by roller-skaters, strolling locals and the occasional knot of tourists. The majority of the square was destroyed in the war but it still possesses a curious architectural mix, from the 60s-style social housing that runs along one [...]
Teufelsberg: Berlin’s North Face
A personal walking excursion to one of Berlin's most mysterious landmarks... Considering it’s a city with lots of neighbourhoods named after hills (Prenzlauer Berg, Kreuzberg, Schöneberg and so on), Berlin is a challengingly flat place. You can walk for miles and miles without rising so much as an inch above the median above-sea-level altitude. Nor would the more notable inclines in the city’s topography – the gradual north-easterly rise along Prenzlauer Allee, for instance - trouble an [...]
