Kiez
Kiez is a somewhat emotionally charged word in Berlin dialect. It means your neighborhood, your distinctive small part of the city where you feel at home and people know you Read More …
Category: Berlin
Two rates of sales tax
The German Mehrwertsteuer (MwSt) is what the British call Value Added Tax (VAT). The Australians I think call it a Goods and Services Tax (GST) and in the States we Read More …
Trashy slogans in Berlin
Somebody at the Berlin Street Cleaning Company BSR is quite creative about inventing slogans to be put on the street-side trash receptacles. The one in my first photo is a Read More …
Deutsche Oper Berlin
This distinguished gentleman casting a skeptical eye at Berlin’s largest opera house is none other than the great English playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616), whose bust was given to the city Read More …
State Opera Berlin
When I think of Berlin I think of opera and construction sites — and here I was lucky enough to get both in the same photo, because they happened to Read More …
Komische Oper Berlin
Berlin is the only German city that has three full-scale professional opera houses. This one is called the Komische Oper or ‘Comic Opera’, but that doesn’t mean everything they do Read More …
Berlin Philharmonie
The Philharmonie in Berlin is an early example (perhaps even the earliest?) of a modern concert hall with the orchestra in the middle and the audience seated in irregular blocks Read More …
Konrad Zuse in Berlin
The Free University was founded in 1948 in what was then the American Sector of Berlin. The reason was that the venerable Humboldt University happened to be in the Soviet Read More …
Jewish Museum Berlin
The Jewish Museum in Berlin tells the story of the Holocaust, of course, but also of the two thousand years of German Jewish history that went before. There are vivid, Read More …
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
This highly unusual memorial consists of 2,711 concrete slabs or “stelae” arranged in a grid pattern on a slightly sloping ground occupying an entire city block of 19,000 square meters. Read More …