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Hi there, I'm Anatol, 31, based in Berlin since 2005. I'm passionate about history, languages, and the arts, be it related to this city or otherwise. My love for being with people and getting across as much of those passions as I can has for years been having me teach languages to children, teenagers and adults, give workshops in music and writing, and - since I'm here - offer a perspective to this city that might allow you to connect the dots of its political, sociological, architectural and cultural past and present. Let's go explore!
"Metropolis" - Marlene Dietrich - Communism vs. Fascism - Weimarer Republik
Berlin is bursting with history.
The 1920s is one of the decades it's most famous for.
With its population at a peak of around 4 million, its industrial sites steaming day and night, Babelsberg giving birth to some of cinema's early jewels, and society looking for its identity in a first attempt at democracy, the city's been experiencing a time significantly informing what made for its glamour and attraction - back then, and running in its DNA since.
This tour will take you to places having set the scenes of some of the dynamics just mentioned.
Having met at Ostkreuz,
we will first go and see the former AEG turbine plants of Schöneweide, with their brick halls and chimneys still standing tall a representative remnant of Berlin's role in 1920s' industrialized Europe.
We'll then head on to UFA-Fabrik in Tempelhof - once the place where movies such as "Metropolis" have been edited and copied, now a hub for ecology and the arts.
Having had a glimpse at the neighboring former headquarters of Ullstein, one of the city's most relevant publishing houses and media outlets at the time, we'll go on and see Tempelhof airport.
With its main building's fascist architecture providing an outlook to what's been to follow the times that are tour's focus, and that building surrounding the airport's former airfield - now a public park beloved by Berliners of all lifestyles and cultures - it's a perfect example of the city's necessity for and willingness to change.
We'll conclude the tour, going for a stroll through Mitte's former Jewish neighbourhood, seeing the restored "Alte Synagoge", as well as learning about the history of what used to be a major Jewish department store.
Eventually, there'll be the chance for cake and coffee in one of the cafés of Tucholskystraße, with its central, yet cosy charme of 2-storey buildings and some remnants of the city's 1990s squatting scene.
You're hooked, up to invest 4 hours to learn a fair bit about this fascinating episode of Berlin's history (and ready to ride some of its public transport to get from A to B (the 9,50€ 24h ticket will cover that and 20 hours more)?
Join us!
Looking forward!
PS: This tour requires a minimum of 4 attendees to be held.
We'll gather at Ostkreuz station, by the entrance facing Sonntagstraße./Bahnhofstr., in front of "Bräugier Taproom", Sonntagstraße 1, 10245. I'll be wearing a white/beige shirt/jacket and a full beard (see profile picture 👌🏽).
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