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1 1 B e r l i n b y F a b i a n M u i r
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Berlin is a city of contrasts. Museums and memorials bear witness to a turbulent and divided past. Since the fall of the Wall Germany’s capital has transformed itself into one of Europe’s most creative and cultural centres - a hip contemporary consciousness infiltrating every aspect of Berlin life.
Tourism is booming. An eclectic abundance of galleries, museums, restaurants, cafés, shops and markets provides a feast for the senses and the mind. Little wonder that almost 12 million visitors have sampled Berlin’s delights in the past year.
Described by long-standing mayor Klaus Wowereit as “poor but sexy”, Berlin’s rapidly gentrifying cobblestone streets find organic supermarkets standing alongside derelict, bullet-ridden, graffiti-covered buildings, and boutique designer showrooms interspersed with communist-era apartment blocks. Michael Reid
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Michael Reid Berlin Ackerstraße 163, D-10115 Berlin Open: Tues-Sat 11.00am-5.00pm Tel: +49 0 175 62 65 100 [email protected] michaelreid.com.au
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In 2012 Michael Reid noticed that Berlin attracts the poor, the talented and the brave. Counting himself amongst their number he decided that Berlin would be the perfect location for sharing and cultivating a current, contemporary view of Australian art, “beyond a post-colonial lens”.
Michael Reid Galleries staged Murr-ma: Uncovering Aboriginal & Australian Contemporary Art, a major Australian group exhibition, in the Hamburger Bahnhof, a prominent exhibition space behind the museum of contemporary art (Museum für Gegenwart). The show presented the best of contemporary Australian artistic practice - Joseph McGlennon, Marian Drew, Adam Cullen and Deborah Paauwe; and indigenous Papunya Tula artists George Tjungurrayi, Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula and Ronnie Tjampitjinpa.
Shortly afterwards Michael Reid galleries dived further into the Berlin arts scene by presenting key Australian works at Preview Berlin Art Fair.
The positive reception that greeted these two exhibitions led to the 2013 establishment of Michael Reid Berlin in Ackerstraße on the ground floor of an 1870s building that, miraculously, had survived.
Ackerstraße lies in the central district of Mitte, home to significant landmarks such as the city Town Hall, Brandenburg Gate, Berlin Cathedral and Fernsehturm (Television Tower). For 28 years, from 1961-1989, Ackerstraße was divided by the Wall. Today, at its corner with Bernauer Straße, a preserved portion of “no man’s land” forms the outdoor Berlin Wall Memorial (Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer), a tourist hot spot offering a pervasive reminder of the once divided city.
Also within short walking distance of the gallery is the Protestant cemetery, Friedhof II der Sophiengemeinde Berlin, commemorating a host of notable composers and artists, singers, philosophers and historians.
Mitte is perhaps best known for its arts and cultural connections. During the 1990s the Kunsthaus Tacheles (now closed), located on nearby Oranienburger Straße, was home to artists’ collectives, studios, workshops and a cinema. Today, tucked away courtyards reveal architect-designed gallery spaces, and a former Jewish school in Auguststraße houses a multi-level arts precinct. Close by, in a reclaimed factory, the headquarters of the Berlin Biennale headquarters shares premises with Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art. Known for its cutting-edge contemporary art exhibitions, KW Institute has collaborated with MoMA PS1, the Venice Biennale and Documenta.
Impressive private contemporary art collections - Sammlung Hoffmann and Sammlung Boros (in a converted bunker) can be viewed by appointment and the Me Collectors Room Berlin / Stiftung Olbricht offers an interesting take on the display of private art collections by inviting prestigious art collectors to present their works as part of a rotating exhibition program. Located less than a kilometre away is the Museums Island, home to museums of antiquity, archaeology and art - the Pergamon Museum, Alte Nationalgalerie and Altes Museum and Bode Museum.
Rachael Vance
M i c h a e l R e i d B e r l i n a n d i t s N e i g h b o u r h o o d
Petrina Hicks, Serpentine I, 2015
Joseph Marr, Laura (Bust), 2010
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Deborah Pauwe, Adorned Tresses, 2013 Joseph McGlennon, Florilegium #2, 2015
Michael Reid Berlin Ackerstraße 163, D-10115 Berlin Open: Tues-Sat 11.00am-5.00pm Tel: +49 0 175 62 65 100 [email protected] michaelreid.com.au
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Joseph McGlennon, Florilegium #2, 2015 Nathan Taylor, Best After I, 2014
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Fabian Muir, Blue Burqa #1, 2014
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Berlin: hot spot and melting pot. It’s Europe’s worst kept secret. Mere mention of the place seems to send a jolt of electricity through everyone, even those who have never been. ‘Ah, I can’t wait to go there’ is the most typical response I hear, a stark contrast to the Baskerville fog that used to settle in people’s eyes when I previously told them lived in Munich (a beautiful and culturally vibrant town, I should add, unjustly victim to weary clichés of oversized beers and Lederhosen).
Such enthusiasm is not what one would typically expect of a scruffy, disorganised city, for by French or Italian standards Berlin is not a beautiful place, and the modern version thumbs her nose at the olde worlde Prussian order and perfection Berlin once embodied. Yet for all her rough edges and flawed perfection she exudes an undeniable magnetism, drawing you in more than her rivals, in much the same way that the best dressed girl at a party is not necessarily the one most worth talking to.
Some will be attracted to Berlin’s arts and culture, some to her uniquely complex place in history, some to her joyous acceptance of every conceivable genre of weirdness. For others it’s Berlin’s intellectual rigour or the sense of calm and slowness – somewhat surprising in the capital of Europe’s economic motor. Others, many of them budding artists, will be drawn to the fact that Berlin remains remarkably affordable, enabling young people to live in a highly stimulating environment and create works that may or may not (alas, frequently not) be the first important steps towards a significant career.
But it does take a certain type to live and prosper there, for Berlin doesn’t simply offer herself, and it is up to the individual to take the initiative and try to seduce her.
One could also say that it holds a special appeal for those who do not (yet) crave suburban stability. If you prefer a predictable environment – one that offers, to quote Radiohead, no alarms and no surprises – Berlin will never be more than a short term proposition. But for those who thrive on never quite knowing what might be around the corner, who nourish themselves on all the changing colours of life, bright or dark, and who understand how monotony is the scourge of creativity, Berlin presents opportunities that most other European capitals cannot.
Perhaps the fascination of Berlin lies in her layers, with the history – inspiring and depressing in equal measure – leaping or lurking on every corner. This was a town turned on its head by a succession of crazed ideologies and where two worlds quite literally collided for decades, which means that years, perhaps even a lifetime are required before one can understand the ebbs and flows. As much as I love Sydney, Melbourne and the outback, you can’t find that there.
Indeed each time you begin to feel you have a handle on the place, something new will reveal itself. Berlin is constantly in flux, always experimenting, always building, rebuilding and reinventing herself. It borders on the miraculous, yet it is easy to take for granted the fact that Berlin has emerged as one of the world’s most tolerant and progressive cities after a seeming age of darkness.
If I have a free day, I am spoilt for choice. Do I go to a world class museum or exhibition? Do I visit one of the operas or theatres, eminently affordable due to generous government subsidies and, again, world class? Do I ride my bicycle through the gardens of Schloss
Charlottenburg or along the many waterways, of which there are more in Berlin than in Venice? Do I hit the Anna Funder trail and seek out remnants of the East German regime? Or, for a change of pace, I can pack a camera and creep around the ruins of 19th century sanatoria, Soviet military bases or GDR factories, for Berlin abounds with overgrown, abandoned places that no one can afford to rehabilitate or restore. Or perhaps I will simply explore as
yet unfamiliar streets and districts, where classic European buildings or hideous socialist ones look down and muse upon the confluence of cultures
from all corners of the globe. Along the way I might pause in an elegant, high-ceilinged café, where the ghosts still blush from their 1920s excesses, before visiting some of the city’s hundreds of galleries; one cannot grow bored in Berlin, for the only limit is one’s own imagination. The one thing I probably won’t do is have a plate of Currywurst mit Pommes (sausage with curry sauce and chips), Berlin’s riposte to the pie floater and a strangely vital cog in the city’s economy.
Ultimately everyone has their own Berlin. Mine is just one of 3.5 million approaches to the place. Berlin may be 800 years old, but she remains a work in progress and her reincarnations make her impossible to define. But whether you’re a tourist, expat or home-grown Berliner, Berlin will always reward those who have the nerve to cross the room and talk to her, the less glamorous but most interesting girl at the party. It’s up to you to take the first step.
Fabian Muir
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“one cannot grow bored in Berlin, for the only limit is one’s own imagination”
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Berlin’s contemporary art scene is like no other. A magnet for art lovers, the city has an aesthetic framed by Bauhaus design and informed by German expressionism. Berlin’s tolerant disposition and incredible creative energy, combined with low cost of living and abundance of space, lures creatives and art dealers from around the world.
There are more than 400 galleries in Berlin - from artist-run studios and independent exhibitions spaces to slick, elite white cube galleries and fortress-like private art collections.
The peak times for the international art world glitterati to travel to Berlin centre around the annual Gallery Weekend Berlin in May gallery-weekend-berlin.de and Berlin Art Week every September [berlinartweek.de].
Rachael Vance
The Boros Collection (Sammlung Boros) Bunker, Reinhardtstraße 20, 10117 Berlin
Private collection of Contemporary Art housed in a converted bunker.
Open: Thurs-Sun.
Visits only possible by booking in advance through the website
sammlung-boros.de
Thomas Olbricht Collection Me Collectors Room Berlin/Olbricht Foundation, Auguststraße 68, 10117 Berlin
Extensive collection from the Renaissance to the present day. Thomas Olbricht often shares the exhibition space with other invited international private collectors.
Open: Tues-Sun 12.00pm-6.00pm.
Guided tours Sat 2.00pm
me-berlin.com
Arthur de Ganay Collection Köpenicker Straße 10A, 10997 Berlin
Large format photography collection investigating landscape and architecture, housed in a former jam factory on the banks of the River Spree.
Open: Guided tours given monthly on Saturdays at 2pm. Register through the website.
collectionarthurdeganay.com
Hoffmann Collection Sammlung Hoffmann, Sophienstrasse 21, 10178 Berlin
Contemporary art collection started in 1968 by Erika and Rolf Hoffmann and on display in Erika Hoffmann’s home.
Open: Saturdays 11.00am-4.00pm. Register for guided tours (approximately 1½ hours) through the website a few days in advance.
sammlung-hoffmann.de
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Gallery Weekend Berlin Lehderstraße 34, 13086 Berlin [gallery-weekend-berlin.de] artistweekend.com
During Gallery Weekend - and at other times of the year by appointment - the 5000 square metres of studio space at Lehderstraße 34 hosts a diverse and unique exhibition in which artists invite other artists to exhibit paintings, sculpture, multi media, installation, film and photography.
September [Art Month in Berlin]
Berlin Art Week berlinartweek.de
abc art berlin contemporary artberlincontemporary.com
Positions Berlin Art Fair positions.de
Open Street Ackerstraße ackerstreet.de
Community initiative (established by Michael Reid) during which Ackerstraße’s many studios, galleries and shops are open all day and into the evening, hosting talks and activities.
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Berlin Kulturforum
Matthäikirchplatz 4-6, 10785 Berlin
Collection of cultural buildings including the New National Gallery (closed until 2019), Philharmonie and Chamber Music Hall (home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra), Neue Staatsbibliothek (New State Library) and the Gemäldegalerie (including one of the world’s most important collections of Old Master pictures).
kulturforum-berlin.de
Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
Bodestraße, 10178 Berlin
Unique, World Heritage-listed, ensemble of five museums built on a small island in Berlin’s Spree River: Pergamon Museum, Altes Museum (fantastic Schinkel building), Alte Nationalgalerie, Bode Museum. Also Schlossbrücke (Palace Bridge), Lustgarten (very nice for a walk) and Berliner Dom.
smb.museum
Pergamonmuseum (The Pergamon Museum)
Bodestraße, 10178 Berlin
The Pergamonmuseum houses three of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin’s most impressive collections: the Antikensammlung (Collection of Classical Antiquities), the Vorderasiatisches Museum (Museum of the Ancient Near East), and the Museum für Islamische Kunst (Museum of Islamic Art).
smb.museum/en/museums-and-institutions/pergamonmuseum
C/O Berlin Foundation
Amerika Haus, Hardenbergstraße 22–24, 10623 Berlin
An exhibition centre for photography. Founded in 2000, it moved to Amerika Haus - the former US culture and information centre - in 2014.
co-berlin.org
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Museum für Fotografie and the Helmut Newton Foundation
Jebensstraße 2, 10623 Berlin
The Museum of Photography in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, Germany, is one of the Berlin State Museums administered by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. The Museum hosts a rotation of specialist exhibitons in addition to the permanent exhibition “Helmut Newton’s Private Property”.
smb.museum/en/museums-and-institutions/museum-fuer-fotografie/home.html
The Kunstbibliothek’s Collection of Photography
Kunstbibliothek, Matthäikirchplatz 6
All forms of photography - from the dawn of the photographic medium to artistic works by contemporary photographers - displayed in the newly restored Kaisersaal.
smb.museum/en/museums-and-institutions/kunstbibliothek/collections/collection-of-photography.html
Ernst-Thälmann-Park
Prenzlauer Berg
One of the last prestigious urban building projects of the GDR this utopian park spans 25 gloriously ungentrified hectares in one of Berlin’s most gentrified neighbourhoods. On its western edge on Greifswalder Straße, looms an enormous monumental bronze bust of former Communist Party leader Ernst Thälmann after whom the park was named.
The Stasi Museum
Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1, 10365 Berlin
Travel east along Karl-Marx-Allee and Frankfurter Allee to the huge complex that housed the Ministry of State Security or Staatssicherheit - abbreviated to the Stasi. Visitors can view the former office of Erich Mielke who led the Stasi for 30 years under the motto of “Shield and Sword of the Party” and learn how protesters and dissidents stormed the buildings in January 1990 to prevent further destruction of surveillance files. The fifth floor of the building is home to the organisation responsible for making the Stasi’s archives available to those it spied on.
Open: Mon-Fri 10.00am-6.00pm; Sat, Sun, Holidays 12.00pm-6.00pm
Tel: +49 30 553 68 54
stasimuseum.de
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Berlin Hohenschönhausen Prison Memorial
Genslerstraße 66, 13055 Berlin
In the suburb of Hohenschönhausen, along an inconspicuous side street just east of the Ringbahn, lies a vast complex whose intimidating exterior walls of concrete and barbed wire herald one of the most infamous prisons of the GDR. Often called simply ‘the Stasi prison’, it became both a brutal symbol of repression and a state-run secret right in the heart of the city. Political dissidents and other ‘troublemakers’ were brought in vehicles disguised as ordinary delivery vans to be ‘corrected’ - a euphemism for psychological torture and ritual humiliation. Tours of the Memorial can only be taken as part of a group, usually led by former inmates who provide first-hand details on prison conditions and the interrogation methods employed by the Stasi. Open daily, English-speaking tours April-October 11.30am and 2.30pm, November-March 2.30pm
en.stiftung-hsh.de
Berlin Wall Memorial
Bernauer Straße
This is Berlin’s official site of remembrance for the Wall, the divided city, and the victims of the communist dictatorship. The Monument is made ‘in Memory of the Divided City and the Victims of Communist Tyranny’. Its two steel walls enclose a 70m long section of the original wall that divided Berlin from August 13, 1961 to November 9, 1989.
berliner-mauer-gedenkstaette.de
East Side Gallery Mühlenstraße, 10243 Berlin The longest open air gallery in the world. 101 large format images painted onto part of the former divide between East and West Berlin. Open all year round. eastsidegallery-berlin.de
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Tierpark Berlin
Am Tierpark 125, 10319 Berlin
Zoo located in the grounds of the former Friedrichsfelde Palace. Daily feedings of big cats, baboons, penguins, manatees and monkeys. Open: all year round 9.00am-5.00pm (check website for later closing in warmer months)
tierpark-berlin.de
Zoo Berlin
Hardenbergplatz 8, 10787 Berlin
Watch sea lions being trained in the heart of Berlin. Regular feedings held throughout the day include gorillas, brown bears, hippos and pelicans. Open: all year round 9.00am-5.00pm (check website for later closing in warmer months)
Tel: +49 30 254 010
zoo-berlin.de
Tiergarten
Straße des 17. Juni 100, 10557 Berlin
Tiergarten, Berlin’s oldest, largest and most popular public park, is the perfect place for a walk or a picnic. Explore the numerous monuments and take a Velotaxi when you get tired. There’s a large playground (Spielplatz) in the south-eastern corner, near Potsdamer Platz. berlin.de/orte/sehenswuerdigkeiten/tiergarten/index.en.php
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S t a yCasa Camper Berlin Weinmeisterstraße 1, 10178 Berlin Tel: +49 30 2000 34 10 [email protected] casacamper.com
Hotel de Rome Behrenstraße 37, 10117 Berlin Tel: +49 30 460 60 90 [email protected] roccofortehotels.com/hotels-and-resorts/hotel-de-rome/
25hours Hotel Bikini Berlin Budapester Straße 40, 10787 Berlin Tel: +49 30 12 02 21 0 [email protected] 25hours-hotels.com/en/bikini/home/home.html
Hotel am Steinplatz Steinplatz 4, 10623 Berlin Tel: +49 30 55 44 44 0 [email protected] hotelsteinplatz.com
Berlin Gorki Apartments Weinbergsweg 25, 10119 Berlin Tel: +49 30 48 496 480 [email protected] gorkiapartments.de
Hotel Amano Auguststraße 43, 10119 Berlin Tel: +49 30 80 94 15 0 [email protected] amanogroup.de/hotels/amano/
Soho House Berlin Torstraße 1, 10119 Berlin Tel: +49 0 30 40 50 440 Submit enquiries through website sohohouseberlin.com Adina Apartment Hotel Berlin Checkpoint Charlie Krausenstraße 35-36, 10117 Berlin Tel: +49 30 2007670 [email protected] tfehotels.com/brands/adina-apartment-hotels/ adina-apartment-hotel-berlin-checkpoint-charlie/
Adina Apartment Hotel Berlin Hackescher Markt An der Spandauer Bruecke 11, 10178 Berlin Tel: +49 30 209 6980 [email protected] tfehotels.com/brands/adina-apartment-hotels/ adina-apartment-hotel-berlin-hackescher-markt
Adina Apartment Hotel Berlin Hauptbahnhof Platz Vor dem Neuen Tor 6, 10115 Berlin Tel: +49 30 2000320 [email protected] tfehotels.com/brands/adina-apartment-hotels/ adina-apartment-hotel-berlin-hauptbahnhof
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E a tMozzarella Bar & Bottega - Al Contadino Sotto le Stelle Auguststraße 34, 10119 Berlin Open: Mon-Sat 11.30am-11.30pm Tel: +49 30 978 941 40 [email protected] bottega.alcontadino.eu
Mogg & Melze Auguststraße 11-13, 10117 Berlin Open: Mon-Fri 8.00am-late, Sat & Sun 10.00am-late Tel: +49 30 330 060 770 [email protected] moggandmelzer.com
Alpenstueck Restaurant Gartenstraße 9, 10115 Berlin Open: Daily 6.00pm-1.00am Tel: + 49 30 217 516 46 [email protected] alpenstueck.de
Katz Orange Bergstraße 22, 10115 Berlin Open: Daily from 6.00pm Tel: + 49 30 983 208 430 [email protected] katzorange.com
Das Lokal Linienstraße 160, 10115 Berlin Open: Mon-Sun from 5.30pm Tel: + 49 30 284 49 500 [email protected] lokal-berlin.blogspot.de
Grill Royal Friedrichstraße 105, 10117 Berlin Open: Daily from 6.00pm Tel: +49 30 288 79 288 [email protected] grillroyal.com/restaurant
Clärchens Ballhaus Auguststraße 24, 10117 Berlin Open: Daily from 11.00am (until the last guest leaves) Tel: +49 30 28 29 29 5 / +49 30 30 64 22 68 [email protected] ballhaus.de/de/startseite.html
Kurpfalz-Weinstuben Wilmersdorfer Straße 93, 10629 Berlin Open: Tues-Sat 6.00pm-1.00am, Sun 6.00pm-12.00pm Tel: +49 30 883 66 64 [email protected] kurpfalz-weinstuben.de
Oderquelle Oderberger Straße 27, 10435 Berlin Open: Daily 6.00pm-1.00am Tel: +49 30 44 00 80 80 [email protected] oderquelle.de
Cookies Cream (Vegetarian Restaurant) Behrenstraße 55, 10117 Berlin Open: Tues-Sat 6.00pm-1.00am Tel: +49 30 27 49 2940 [email protected] cookiescream.com
And every Curry Wurst Stand in the city - very Berlin!
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The Barn Auguststraße 58, 10119 Berlin Open: Mon-Fri 8.00am-6.00pm; Sat & Sun 10.00am-6.00pm barn.bigcartel.com
Am Ende der Welt Scharnhorstraße 5, 10115 Berlin Open Mon-Fri 8.30am-6.00pm, Sat & Sun 9.00am-6.00pm Tel: +49 17 09 45 21 01 de-de.facebook.com/pages/Am-Ende-der-Welt/183607395015102
CafeCK Marienburger Straße 49, 10405 Berlin Open: Mon-Fri 8.00am-6.00pm; Sat & Sun 9.00am-7.00pm Tel: +49 30 68 83 49 05 cafeck.tumblr.com
Five Elephant – Coffee Roastery and Cake Shop Reichenberger Straße 101, 10999 Berlin Open Mon-Fri 8.30am-7.00pm, Sat & Sun 10.00 am-7.00pm Tel: +49 30 6950 7444 fiveelephant.com
Leck Mich Ackerstraße 144, 10115 Berlin 100% Organic, hand-crafted ice cream Open: April-October, Mon-Sat 12.00pm-8.00pm Raumerstraße 31, 10437 Berlin Open: Tues-Fri 2.00pm-10.00pm, Sat & Sun 12.00pm-10.00pm leckmich-eis.com Schneiders Schokoladen Ackerstraße 149, 10115 Berlin-Mitte ‘Chocolate, cakes and ice cream made with love’ Open: Winter Mon-Sat 11.00am-6.00pm Sun and holidays 12.00pm-6.00pm; Summer Mon-Sat 11.00am-7.00pm Sun and holidays 12.00pm-7.00pm schneidersschokoladen.de/home.htm Eislabor Raumerstraße 31, 10437 Berlin Open: April-October, Mon-Sat 12.00pm-8.00pm Google+ page
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Meine Bar ICI Augustraße 61, 10117 Berlin Open: Mon-Sat 1.00pm-3.00am, Sun 4.00pm-2.00am Tel: +49 30 917 070 63 facebook.com/meinebar
Krohan Bress Whisky + Cigars Ackerstraße 145, 10115 Berlin Open: Mon-Thurs 11.00am-8.00pm, Fri & Sat 11.00am-10.00pm Tel: +49 30 30 87 48 92 kroehanbress.de
Becketts Kopf Pappelallee 64, 10437 Berlin Open: Tues-Thurs 8.00pm-3.00am, Fri & Sat 8.00pm-4.00am, Sun & Mon 8.00pm-2.00am Tel: +49 30 9900 51 88 becketts-kopf.de
Buck & Breck Brunnenstraße 177, 10119 Berlin Open: Daily from 7.00pm Tel: +49 176 323 155 07 buckandbreck.com
Butcher’s Bar Torstraße 116, 10119 Berlin Open: Wed-Sun 9.00pm-3.00am Tel: +49 176 64328330 butcher-berlin.de
Newton Bar Charlottenstraße 57, 10117 Berlin Open: Sun-Wed 10.00am-3.00am; Thurs-Sat 10.00am-4.00am Tel: +49 30 20 29 54 21 newton-bar.de
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Café am Neuen See Lichtensteinallee 2, 10787 Berlin Open: Mon-Fri from 11.00am, Sat & Sun from 10.00am Tel: +49 30 2544930 cafeamneuensee.de
Fischerhütte am Schlachtensee Fischerhüttenstraße 136, 14163 Berlin Open: Daily from 9.00am Tel: +49 30 80 49 83 10 fischerhuette-berlin.de
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Weekly Produce and Flea Market Winterfeldtmarkt, Winterfeldtplatz, 10781 Berlin Fresh fruit and vegetables, meat and fish, flowers, clothes, flea market. Wed 8.00am-2.00pm, Sat 8.00am-4.00pm facebook.com/pages/WinterfeldtMarkt/163542520355658
Farmers’ market Kollwitzplatz, 10405 Berlin Seasonal fruit and vegetables, flowers, deli food, homemade arts and crafts. Organic market on Thursdays. Sat 9.00am-4.00pm, Thurs 12.00pm-7.00pm
Flea market Bernauer Straße 63-64, 13355 Berlin Clothes, records, antiques and lots to eat. Neighbouring Mauerpark was once part of the former Berlin Wall. Sun 9.00am-6.00pm flohmarktimmauerpark.de
Flea Market Boxhagener Platz, Grünberger Straße, 10245 Berlin Known locally as Boxi. Books, records, secondhand clothing, household goods and furniture. Sunday 10.00am-6.00pm Turkish Market Maybachufer, Neukölln, 12047 Berlin Street food, fresh produce and textiles in the centre of Berlin’s Turkish community. Open: Tuesday and Friday 11.00am-6.30pm tuerkenmarkt.de
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Bikini Berlin
Budapester Straße 38-50, 10787 Berlin
Retail (boutique, concept and flagship stores), restaurants, 7 screen cinema (the Zoo Palast) and hotel. A new building, the Bikini Berlin Pool, has a freely accessible 7000m2 rooftop garden terrace and boasts a panoramic window onto the monkey enclosure in nearby Zoo Berlin.
Mall open: Mon-Sat 9.00am-9.00pm, Sun 1.00pm-6.00pm;
Bikini Berlin Garden open everyday 9.00am-10.00pm
Tel: +49 30 55 49 64 54
bikiniberlin.de
Mall of Berlin
Leipziger Platz 12, 10117 Berlin
Open: Mon-Sat 10.00am-9.00pm, Sun 1.00pm-7.00pm
Tel: +49 30 206 217 70
mallofberlin.de
KaDeWe
Kaufhaus des Westens, Tauentzienstraße 21-24, 10789 Berlin
Open: Mon-Thurs 10.00am-8.00pm, Fri 10.00-9.00pm,
Sat 9.30am-8.00pm
Tel: +49 30 2121 0
kadewe.de
Hakescher Markt
Mitte District, Berlin 1017
Framed by Dircksenstraße to the south, Torstraße to the north, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz to the east and Oranienburger Straße to the west, Hakescher Markt shops offer designer clothes alongside upcoming labels. Recharge at one of the area’s many cafés, bars and restaurants and make sure you visit the labyrinth of shop-filled courtyards or ‘Höfe’, accessed through the main arched entrance at Rosenthalerstraße 40. Open: Daily 11.00am-8.00pm
hackeschermarktberlin.de
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Another Country Riemannstraße 7, 10961 Berlin Open: Mon 2.00pm-8.00pm, Tues-Fri 11.00am-8.00pm, Sat 12.00pm-6.00pm Tel: +49 30 69 40 11 60 [email protected] anothercountry.de
Ocelot “not just another bookstore” Brunnenstraße 181, 10119 Berlin Open: Mon - Sat 10.00am – 8.00pm Tel: +49 30 97 89 45 92 [email protected] ocelot.de
Shakespeare & Sons Raumerstraße 36, 10437 Berlin Open: Mon-Sat 9.00am-8.00pm Sun 10.00am-8.00pm Tel: +49 30 40 00 36 85 shakesbooks.de
Walther König Burgstraße 27, 10178 Berlin Open: Mon-Sat 10.00am-8.00pm Tel: + 49 30 25 76 09 80 [email protected] buchhandlung-walther-koenig.de
Dussmann das KulturKaufhaus Friedrichstraße 90, 10117 Berlin Open: Mon-Fri 9.00am - midnight Sat 9.00am-11.30pm Tel: +49 30 2025 1111 [email protected] kulturkaufhaus.de
B o o k s h o p s
Coretex Records Oranienstraße 3, 10997 Berlin Open: Mon-Fri 11.00am-8.00pm, Sat 11.00am-6.00pm Tel: +49 30 61 28 00 50 coretexrecords.com
Jazz Dreams Hermann-Hesse-Straße 25, 13156 Berlin Open: Mon-Fri 1.00pm-6.00pm, Sat 12.00pm-4.00pm Tel: +49 30 54 84 05 50/+49 30 85 60 63 60 jazz-dreams.de
Space Hall Zossener Straße 33, 10961 Berlin Open: Mon-Wed 11.00am-8.00pm, Thurs & Friday 11.00am-10.00pm, Sat 11.00am-8.00pm Tel: +49 30 694 76 64 spacehall.de
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A-Trane Pestalozzistraße 105, 10625 Berlin Open: Sun-Thurs 8.00pm-1.00am, Fri & Sat 8.00pm onwards Tel: +49 30 313 25 50 [email protected] a-trane.de
Quasimodo Kantstraße 12a, 10623 Berlin Open: Restaurant Mon-Thurs 4.30pm-12.00am, Fri 4.30pm-1.00am, Sat 12.00pm-1.00am, Sun 12.00pm-12.00am Doors open for concerts at 9.00pm Tel: + 49 30 318 045 60 [email protected] quasimodo.de
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BVG FahrInfo Plus Berlin Up-to-date schedules and trip plans for Berlin’s public transport systems.
Duolingo Learn German for free - ‘far and away the best language-learning app’, The Wall Street Journal.
Unlike City Guide Insider guides, comprehensive listings, personal recommendations and user-discoveries.
Street Art Berlin Guide to the hotspots of Berlin Street Art. Detailed descriptions of the best – including hidden - walls.
Thomas Kakareko, street photographer instagram.com/thomas_k
Michael Reid (when in Berlin) instagram.com/Michaelreidart
Joerg Nicht, photographer instagram.com/jn
Juan C. Roa, Berlin-based Colombian instagram.com/juancamiloberlin
Konrad, urban photographer instagram.com/konaction
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Written by Michael Reid Natalie Bergschwinger Rachael Vance Fabian Muir Joseph Marr
Edited by Emily Cloney
Designed by Mairead Gillespie
Image credits P1 Mairead Gillespie At Dusk
P5 Kate Robinson Life
P6 Michael Reid The Neighbourhood Kate Robinson Fernsehturm Berlin
P7 Petrina Hicks Serpentina I Joseph Marr Laura (Bust)
P8-9 Deborah Pauwe Adorned Tresses Joseph McGlennon Florilegium #2 Nathan Taylor Best After I
P10 Fabian Muir Blue Burqa #1
P12 Ing Chua Lee Holocaust Memorial
P13 Ing Chua Lee Bicycle
P14 Tim Budde Kulturprojekte Berlin Art Week
P15 Ted and Jen Neue Nationalgalerie Sculpture Ted and Jen Museum Island Jan Mehlich Altar to Zeus David Von Becker America Haus
P16 Wikipedia Museum of Photography Berlin Andreas Praefcke Eigenes Wek
P17 Ing Chua Lee East Side Gallery
P18 Kate Robinson Walk on the Canal
P20 Natalie Bergschinger Tiramisu
P22 Natalie Bergschinger Kaffee
P23 Natalie Bergschinger Beer Garden
P24 Mairead Gillespie Pins
P25 Kate Robinson Urban Life
P26 Kate Robinson Bikini Berlin
P27 Michael Reid Shopping/Reflection
P28 Maired Gillespie Second-hand Reads
P30 Ing Chua Lee Street Art
P31 Konaction Spot Juan C.Roa untitled Michael Reid untitled Jöerg Nicht Reflection Thomas Kakereko You & I
Published as a bespoke guide May 2015
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Contact
Michael Reid BerlinAckerstraße 163, D-10115 Berlin, Germany
+49 (0) 175 62 65 100
Michael Reid Sydney44 Roslyn Gardens, Elizabeth Bay, NSW 2011
+61 2 8353 3500
[email protected] michaelreid.com.au