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If in doubt, ask Urself: what would Marlene do?
Like in 1933 when told she mustn't wear trousers in
#Paris
(illegal 4 ladies until 2013!), she promptly donned a man's suit, beret & dark sunglasses & got off the train from Cherbourg, marching straight twds chief of Paris police.
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#OTD
1938 Liselotte (Lilo) Herrmann, 28-yr-o Communist & anti-Nazi activist beheaded in
#Ploetzensee
prison after 31 months of confinement. Lilo Herrmann was the 1st anti-Fascist executed by the Nazis.
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Looks like a battlefield or Fire Installation? It's how German vineyard owners kept their plants warm in Baden-Württemberg last night
#frost
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"
#Berlin
is no chic capital like Paris, Rome or London [...] U come to Berlin from the East. To find jobs, make music or films; to paint, do theatre, to write; to direct & to sculpt; to sell cars, paintings, plots & terrains, carpets, antiques; to open shops; to struggle & study"
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@EvaMozesKor
I'm so happy for you and all other people who were liberated that day from that hell! But one small thing I feel obliged to say : it was the Red Army who liberated Auschwitz . The Soviet troops. Out for respect for their courage and losses there should be a red flag there, too.
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Another reason to love Berlin: its black & rather English sense of humour.
A note in a doctor's waiting room in
#Kreuzberg
: "You don't have to vaccinate all of your kids. Just those you want to keep."
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I literally have tears in my eyes! First direct sleeper connection Berlin-Paris 😍
Booking now!
The very first
#Nightjet
arrival in Paris-Est from Berlin 🇩🇪🚆🇫🇷
Such an historical moment
#Trainsbeforeplanes
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This is Hedwig. She died this morning killed by a car in our street. She was only 1.5 years old. She will be missed forever🧡
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#OTD
1935 "Jägermeister" was registered as a trademark name for a herbal liquor (Reichspatentamt Nr 474481). The company existed since 1878 making vinegar & sell wine. The liquor's name honoured 3rd Reich's Chief Master of the Hunt Hermann Göring. Hence nickname "Göring-Schnaps".
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So there it is: the day when my eldest son is taking his Abitur exam. In my life, many things might have worked out less successful than once hoped, but let me tell you this: this boy - sorry! this young man - and his twin brothers are perfection!
Mother’s pride 🧡🌞
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#OTD
1992 one of the last great cinema divas, the unforgettable,
unsurpassed Marlene Dietrich died in
#Paris
. She, a born & bred
Berlinerin, was laid to rest next to her mother at the Schöneberg III
cemetery in Stubenrauchstraße in
#Berlin
#Friedenau
.
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Another wonderful photo of the old Anhalter Bahnhof,
#Berlin
's most impressive railway station located in
#Kreuzberg
: to the right the building where Siemens & Halske (now
#Siemens
) had their 1st shop. Small Bahnhostr (C last tweet) well visible. Imagine living there!
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#OTD
1961 a 19-yr-old border guard, Hans Conrad Schumann, became one of the 1st
#DDR
#BerlinWall
defectors in history. Stationed on the cr. Ruppiner Street/Bernauer Street, he jumped over coils of barbed wire, dropping his gun. The legendary photo was made by Peter Leibing.
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“ You won’t recognise Berlin again!“ promised Goebbels. He was right. They didn’t.
Brandenburger Tor with Pariser Platz in the foreground and a nearly completely tree-free Tiergarten on Dec 22, 1945. Photo by Otto Donath via
@BundesarchivD
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The foyer of Anhalter Bahnhof, one of the most splendid European railway stations. With its 16-metre high ceiling and 400m2 it could accommodate up to 400. Tickets sold on the left, luggage to be checked in on the right. Going up the stairs, don't forget: departures to the right
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Good morning
#Berlin
& Beyond!
Opening 2022 tweet-extravaganza with one of most memorable quotes ever:
"Like all inveterate travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen." Benjamin Disraeli
Image: Bhf Friedrichstraße around 1910.
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#Germany
- the land of Wimmelbücher (children's books with no text but with v.detailed illustrations where tiny objects/people have to be found).
Their father,
#Alimitgutsch
, has just died. So many wonderful days spent with my kids searching miniature dogs or girls in red hats💚
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Where were 2.5% of all grown-up East Germans
#OTD
1988?
At Rennbahn
#Wei
ßensee, venue for the biggest concert in the history of of the
#DDR
.
That night
#BruceSpringsteen
played for 200k-300k people. "Only" 100k tickets were sold but some 2x people stormed the venue on top.
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That fluid moment before the old was gone but the new was not really born yet.
Marx-Engels-Forum and
#Fernsehturm
being built among the remains of the old
#Marienviertel
in central
#Berlin
.
1969
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This lady, Emma, sells newspapers on
#Berlin
's Admiralsbrücke (& in summer next to Prinzenbad). She is the most positive, courageous person you've ever met, one whose life has been 1000x harder than yours but who never complains.
Now she also proves she's a super hero to boot🥰
Swan drama in
#Berlin
! The elderly lady of Admiralbrucke saves the day. She was braver than all of us
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Egypt? No! Berlin-Steglitz. The set for the 1922 film "Das Weib des Pharaos" ("The Wife of the pharao") directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
Filmed in 1921 and 1922, most of the mass scenes were created in the dune-scape close to today's Insulaner in Südende, Steglitz locality. The
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Good morning
#Berlin
& Beyond!
Where it all began🧡
Schönhauser Allee and U-Bhf Senefelderplatz, where I got off the U2, having met my future husband - 24 years and three fabulous sons ago.
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Things you can do with old
#WW2
Flakbunker: if you cannot remove it, build on it.
Flakturm IV Sankt Pauli, Hamburg.
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It's been a Lesser-Ury day in
#Berlin
today. It's a Lesser-Ury night now. The city is hidden behind a glistening curtain of rain. Like in this 1920s painting of Leipziger Straße by the famous recluse from Nollendorfplatz 1...
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A beautiful night photo of grand Berlin venue, Haus Vaterland, originally Haus Potsdam, designed by Franz Schwechten (arch. of Anhalter Bahnhof & Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskiirche.
It became Haus Vaterland after the popular cafe it housed, Cafe Picadilly, was renamed 1914 in
#WW1
.
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Congratulations to whoever placed that little guy with binoculars on his balcony - right opposite the main seat of German Foreign Intelligence Service😎
Gegenüber vom BND in Mitte, direkt auf der anderen Straßenseite, sind mehrere Wohnhäuser. Auf einem Balkon ist das die Deko. Genau mein Humor.
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One of Alfred
#Grenander
's greatest contributions (there were many) was the colour coding system he introduced for individual
#UBahn
stations: each got individual colour of tiles/wall edges/columns. It helped recognise the stop from a crowded train (not seeing the name).
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"As one very witty man once wrote: 'Anhalter Bahnhof is where the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation ends, and Schlesiche Bahnhof is the western gate to the Balkan. Between these two lies Berlin.'"
V. von Loesch, 1932
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Possibly the most beautiful photo I have ever seen.
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Farewell
#Kreuzberg
! You've been our home for over 15 years and I thank you for each of them. I came as a stranger but am leaving as a local and as a mother of locals: my sons are Berliners and Kreuzbergers. And so are my Hessian man and I. Köpenick will only male that mix richer
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A peaceful day at the Wall: photo taken on the corner of Leuschnerdamm and Waldemarstraße in the 1960s, when Engelbecken had become the border and the death strip between Kreuzberg (West Berlin) and Mitte (Ost Berlin).
Engelbecken, the basin which is the only body of water
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Back in 1925, in the days when Potsdamer Platz (btw, it was never a real plaza but a junction) was still a place of beauty. From L to R: one of Schinkel's Torhäuser am Leipziger Pl, Hotel Fürstenhof, Potsdamer Bahnhof, Pschorrhaus & view down Potsdamer & Linkstraße.
All gone.
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I do love to play a tourist in my own city,
#Berlin
. And you know what? Every time I do, it feels like falling in love again🙂
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Once oldest
#Berlin
Kneipe, "Zur letzten Instanz", opened in Waisenstraße around 1621 & existed non-stop until its demise in 1943 air-raid. Today's place was reconstructed already 1963 & then restored + extended for Berlin's 750th birthday 1987 (Nikolaiviertel-revival project)
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#OTD
1990
#DDR
's most popular public venue,
#PalastDerRepublik
, was closed down (alleged main reason, asbestos, being just one of many). Despite heavy protests on both sides of the border, PdR was demolished 2006. A loss that, sadly, no Prussian replica can make up for.
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Saying bye-bye 2021 with a bling!
The year was tough but there's always hope the next one will be better. But in case not, remember that anything looks brighter when you wear sequins😉
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A wonderful, unusual photo of today's Ostbahnhof when it was still known as Frankfurter Bhf (later Schlesischer Bhf and East
#Berlin
's Hauptbahnhof): taken after the 1868-69 refurbishment of the 1841 station and when Frankfurter Bhf was still a terminus station (until the
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"At night I hear train engines whistle, a wistful call comes from distant places, and I turn in my bed thinking: "To travel"..."
Kurt Tucholsky
Photo: Trix Express at
#Berlin
's Anhalter Bahnhof, 1935. By Fritz Eschen.
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McStorks
It pays to look up even on German motorway service areas. Proof that Nature still rules✊️
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When all lights were on in
#Karstadt
am Hermannplatz, the surrounding streets and plaza needed no excess illumination.
#Berlin
#Kreuzberg
#Neuk
ölln
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In a country where public protest is illegal and as such dangerous, every single person joining one deserves our deepest respect✊
#withUkraine
In
#Novosibirsk
,
#Russia
, local residents are marching in
#protest
against the Russian invasion of
#Ukraine
:
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Exactly 12 years ago to an hour it became clear that our plans to have a daughter had been thwarted & instead we welcomed our twin sons, making us proud parents of three incredible boys. Je ne regrette rien🧡🧡🧡
Happy birthday Franz & Ferdinand!
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Everything U never even knew U wanted to know about
#Berlin
, or your ultimate companion to the city's forgotten or lesser-known past lovingly compiled by
@kreuzberged
. Now in TWO volumes. Part I and Part II available now via Berlinarium .
#BerlinCompanion
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If you think this is a photo, we'll, I'm not surprised in the least. But in reality, you're liking at the 1831 (!) painting by a brilliant GER artist, Johann Erdmann Hummel, presenting the giant granite bowl from
#Berlin
's Lustgarten (C last tweet) being polished.
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Had a pleasure of speaking to
@BaurJoe
and
@BBC_Travel
about
#Berlin
's indoor swimming pools. By now a passionate winter-swimmer myself (no temperature is TOO low), I am still just as charmed by
#Berlin
's historic indoor pools. Here's why.
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Guten morgen
#Berlin
& Beyond!
Enchanted Tram
Line 61 to Berlin-Rahnsdorf in the woods along the Müggelsee lake.
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What looks like a Hollywood film set is in fact
#Berlin
: the northern side of
#Flakturm
III erected 1941-42 in Volkspark
#Humboldthain
towering over 1.5m tonnes of
#WW2
rubble and a passing
#SBahn
train (the line prevented the French OF from blowing up the rest of the flak).
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Good morning
#Berlin
and Beyond!
On my way to Stabi Newspaper Reading Room for the first time in a very very long time. On the 0-10 scale of excitement? 19😁
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The rain just stopped in
#Berlin
but the city is still full of that glistening magic and the smell of summer streets. All this reminded me of my beloved Rainy Berlin photo by a phenomenal
#DDR
artist,
#RogerMelis
, taken 1976 in Almstedtstr. (old Grenadierstr. in Scheunen Viertel)
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GER word of the day: "EIGENGRAU" - intrinsic grey or dark light; the actual colour of the sky at night (the sky is never black).
Painting of the day: Ernst Hugo Lorenz-Murowana, "Friedrichsbrücke in
#Berlin
" 1910 (with Berliner Dom on the R & Berliner Börse on the L).
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Kleine August (-straße). Where
#Berlin
still feels like a place full of portals to another time-dimension...
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Warsaw in the 1930s, before the end of that world.
Warsaw in the 1930s, colourized and remastered using AI
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Today feels like a perfect day to pop over to 1927 to visit
#Berlin
's newly opened Kraftwerk Klingenberg in
#Rummelsburg
(C last tweet). If lucky, I might even get a peek of the 3 largest turbines ever built. But I'll be equally happy just strolling around this control room.
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@AuschwitzMuseum
Thank you for giving her a name again and for telling her heartbreaking story. It will not bring those children back to life but it honours them in the only way we can: by remembering them.
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Kitsch? Maybe. But still makes me breathless.
View from the Friedrichsbrücke right now.
#unfiltered
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Last night in
#Berlin
.
Where every sight makes you stop and take another picture. Even if you already have thousands of them...
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Good morning
#Berlin
& Beyond!
England in Köpenick
Municipal Waterworks Berlin-Friedrichshagen.
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Some Courts Are Better Than Others
#Berlin
's 1906 building of Amtsgericht Tiergarten in Turmstraße, with a foyer you can only describe as "Augenschmaus"😍
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"
#Berlin
is not a city at all. Berlin merely offers a space for masses of people - with, admittedly, many great minds among them - to gather. They do not care about the place one bit."
Heinrich Heine, 1830
"Abend im Cafe Bauer" by Lesser Ury
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#Berlin
on the inside: the almost completely vanished side of the city - its old, unpolished, pre- gentrified courtyards. Not pretty but beautiful.
BTW, all three photos were taken between 1960 & mid 1990s.
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Good morning
#Berlin
and Beyond!
When all this is over, I'm going to spend one week travelling on all Berlin underground train lines from one end to another. Just my camera, some tea, some "Stulle" and I.
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You know it's spring in Berlin when Barack
#Obama
lands here and Angela
#Merkel
gives him THAT look 😎
#ComeBackObama
#DontGoAngela
#berlin
#TheLookOfLove
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During the demolition of East
#Berlin
"Palasthotel", op. 1979 as the go-to for foreign guests & spies, a 250-kilo US aerial bomb was found under the concrete foundations. It lie dormant for 55 yrs, also as Swedish construction workers were pouring the concrete in 1978. (1)
👇
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One of the most precious childhood photos I have: my beautiful mum and myself (aged 4) long time ago in a vanished country.
You can't ever go home again but you can look in through the window 🙂
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A fascinating look at life on two sides of the Berlin divide in 1959. The most striking thing, perhaps, is the lack of undercurrent of hostility in reporting which will appear on both sides later.
#OnThisDay
1959: Panorama's Robert Kee reported from Berlin on what life was like for people in both the East and West of the city before the wall. This is fascinating.
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It's my out-and-about day today and I'm going to walk and savour the views until my feet bleed✊
#Bodemuseum
#Berlin
#MuseumInsel
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Just remembered taking this photo in Gneisenaustraße in
#Kreuzberg
. Because rain in
#Berlin
...
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Hallesches Tor,
#Berlin
#Kreuzberg
, in 1928: the cars just entered Belle-Alliance-Platz from the south. In the centre (background) winged wheels symbolising Berliner
#Hochbahngesellschaft
used to crown the elevated station "Hallesches Tor" (the borough's original name in
#1920
).
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Back to life, back to (sweet) reality 🍺
My first Kristall of 2021. Prost!
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The house that's my my first big unrequited love in Berlin; a house that is at the heart of my obsession with Berlin history; a house I had been watching and dreaming of buying for 20 years; a house I saw every day for 10 years and still find it breath-taking; a house that
Hätte ich Geld, würde ich das kaufen und ein Haus zum Schreiben für Autorinnen und Autoren daraus machen. Und ganz oben wäre das Sonnenuntergangssofa
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Happy New Year,
#Berlin
and Beyond!
I know it’s the 2nd of January by now and that I might be late to the party but, boy, will I get your attention now😉
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