Berlin Main Station
After years of bickering, scandals and cost overruns, Berlin finally has its modern new Main Station (Hauptbahnhof), built from 1993 to 2006 on the site of the old Lehrter Station Read More …
Category: Berlin
Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt
The Humboldt University in Berlin was founded in 1810 by the scholar, linguist and diplomat Wilhelm von Humboldt, 1767-1835, who for a short time — less than a year, actually Read More …
Einstein lectured here
In 1905 Albert Einstein, who was then a 26-year-old employee of the Swiss Patent Office in Bern, published four scientific papers which among other things solved the long-standing problem of Read More …
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 …
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 …