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The Story of Berlin
Kudamm-Karree
Kurfuerstendamm 207-208
Hotline: ++49 +30 - 8 87 01 00
www.story-of-berlin.de
info@story-of-berlin.de the Foundation Stadtmuseum Berlin manages the Maerkische Museum, the museums in Nikolai quarter, the museums in Nicolaihaus and Galgenhaus, the Collection Childhood and Youth, the museum's village Dueppel, the open air museum Domaene Dahlem and the exhibitions in Friedrichsfelde palace: www.stadtmuseum.de opening times of museums and palaces - e.g. Museumsinsel island, Schloss Charlottenburg palace and Schloss Sanssouci palace
Foundation Prussian Heritage, Museums, Palaces & Gardens
www.preussen.de
website of the "General Management of the Formerly Governing Prussian Royal Family" Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens
www.spsg.de National Museums of Berlin
www.smb.spk-berlin.de Museums in the Surroundings of Berlin e.g. in Potsdam
www.museen-brandenburg.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.museen-brandenburg.de the Senate Department for Urban Development gives detailed information
on Berlin's historical monuments: www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/denkmal/denkmale_in_berlin/index_en.shtml
on sightseeing tours:
www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/bauen/wanderungen/index_en.shtml
including Berlin's parks & gardens:
www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/denkmal/denkmale_in_berlin/en/weltkulturerbe
- with photographs theFoundation Stadtmuseum Berlin organises the exhibitions in the 13th century Nikolai church and the demonstrations in the reconstructed medieval settlement of the museum's village Dueppel
www.stadtmuseum.de the museum's village Dueppel has got a supporters club:
www.dueppel.de
the website is German only try google's translation tool: www.dueppel.de you find detailed descriptions of the Juliusturm tower of the Spandau citadel, the Nikolai church, Kloster church, Marien church and other medieval buildings on the website of the Senate Department for Urban Development: www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/denkmal/denkmale_in_berlin/en/bodendenkmale
and on the website of the parish of the medieval Marien church:
www.marienkirche-berlin.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.marienkirche-berlin.de in the Gotische Haus in Spandau, built around 1500:
Spandau Information
Breite Strasse 32
13597 Berlin
Tel.: ++49 +30 - 3 33 93 88
www.spandau-information.com parish website of the medieval Nikolaikirche Spandau:
www.nikolai-spandau.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.nikolai-spandau.de information on the 16th century Jagdschloss Grunewald hunting lodge and Schloss Köpenick palace
Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens
www.spsg.de theSpandau citadel was built in the 16th century
www.zitadelle-spandau.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.zitadelle-spandau.de
virtual tour and information on history, shops, events, festivals & guided tours the Center for Berlin Studies resides in the Renaissance residence of the von Ribbeck family
Ribbeck-Haus
Breite Straße 36
10118 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 9 02 26 - 4 85
Fax: ++49 +30 - 9 02 26 - 4 52
www.zlb.de/wissensgebiete/zbs
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.zlb.de/wissensgebiete/zbs
the family von Ribbeck was made famous by the writer Theodor Fontane detailed visual description and historical photographs of Berlin's Stadt-Schloss - town palace, destroyed in World War II and finally demolished by the GDR in the 1950's:
Senate Department for Urban Development:www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/bauen/wanderungen/en/sch_01.shtml Schloss Niederschoenhausen palace stands empty, information on the palace park:
Senate Department for Urban Development
www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/umwelt/stadtgruen
the page is German only - try google's translation tool:www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/umwelt/stadtgruen information on Schloss Koepenick, on Schloss Charlottenburg and on Jagdschloss Stern in Potsdam:
Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens
www.spsg.de
the Jagdschloss Stern hunting lodge is part of the UNESCO World Heritage from the former Potsdam Stadtschloss - town palace - only the Marstall stables are left - housing Potsdam's film museum:
Marstall am Lustgarten
14467 Potsdam
Tel: ++49 +3 31 - 2 71 81 - 0
Fax: ++49 +3 31 - 2 71 81 - 26
www.filmmuseum-potsdam.de
info@filmmuseum-potsdam.de
computer animation of the historic town palace:
www.stadtschloss.org
as Berlin's town palace, Potsdam's town palace was destroyed by bombs in World War II, the remains demolished by the GDR the Foundation Stadtmuseum Berlin is in charge of Schloss Friedrichsfelde palace: www.stadtmuseum.de
in the formerly Baroque palace park, remodeled by Peter Joseph Lenné in Classicist style, you find the Tierpark Berlin-Friedrichsfelde
Am Tierpark 125
10307 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 51 53 11 23
Fax: ++49 +30 - 51 28 06 1
http://www.tierpark-berlin.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool:www.tierpark-berlin.detierpark-berlin@t-online.de the Hugenottenmuseum documents the history of the French immigrants recruited in the 17th century
Franzoesischer Dom
Consistorium der Franzoesischen Kirche
Gendarmenmarkt 5
10117 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 2 29 17 60
Fax: ++49 +30 - 2 04 15 05
www.franzoesische-kirche.de
the website is German only, try google's translation tool: www.franzoesische-kirche.deBuero@franzoesische-kirche.de
information on the Hugenot Museum, on services & events of the French Reformed Community there is an exhibition on 1848's revolutionary events in the
Deutscher Dom
Ways - Wrong Routes - Detours - The Development of Parliamentary Democracy in Germany
Exhibition by the German Parliament
Gendarmenmarkt 1
10117 Berlin
www.bundestag.de/bau_kunst/ausst/wege/
German only page - try google's translation tool: www.bundestag.de/bau_kunst/ausst/wege/
ausstellungsbuero2.pi5@bundestag.de 80 years later the two domes commissioned by Friedrich II changed the two churches to the Deutsche and Franzoesische Dom - you can climb the tower of the Franzoesiche Dom: Viewing Platform of the Franzoesische Dom Cathedral
Gendarmenmarkt 5
10117 Berlin
www.franzoesischer-dom-berlin.de
the website is German only -
try google's translation tool: www.franzoesischer-dom-berlin.de
info@franzoesischer-dom-berlin.de
the viewing platform has been closed for renovation works since May 2005 the Jewish Museum documents two thousand years of German Jewish history
Lindenstrasse 9-14
10969 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 2 59 93 - 3 00
Fax: ++49 +30 - 2 59 93 - 4 09
www.jmberlin.de
info@jmberlin.de
fuehrungen@jmberlin.de
information on the architecture of the museum's building, permanent and changing exhibitions, guided tours, collections & publications, special programmes for children & youths, the Leo Baeck archive and the restaurant Liebermann founded in 1696, Berlin's Arts Academy:
Akademie der Kuenste Berlin
Hanseatenweg 16
10557 Berlin - Tiergarten
Tel: ++49 +30 - 39 07 60
Fax: ++49 +30 - 39 07 61 75
www.adk.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.adk.de
info@adk.de
originally the academy had its seat in the former stables - Marstall - Unter den Linden 8 (demolished in 1908) today you find a branch next to Brandenburger Tor at Pariser Platz 4 - here the Arnimsche Palais, destroyed in World War II, housed the academy from 1907 onwards founded in 1700 by G.W. Leibniz:
Akademie der Wissenschaften Berlin
Jaegerstraße 22-23
10117 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 20 37 00
Fax: ++49 +30 - 20 37 05 00
www.bbaw.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.bbaw.de
info@adk.de
the science academy originally shared the Marstall building Unter den Linden 8 with the arts academy , today you find the science academy at Gendarmenmarkt in the former building of the Prussian State Bank the Zeughaus is a Baroque arsenal built in 1706, from 2006 onwards the
Deutsche Historische Museum - German history museum - will stage a permanent exhibition on German history
Unter den Linden 2
10117 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 2 03 04 - 0
Fax: ++49 +30 - 2 03 04 - 5 43
www.dhm.de
at present changing exhibitions are shown in the modern annex by I.M.Pei the history of Berlin's hospitals begins in the 18th century
Charite
Schumannstrasse 20-21
10117 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 4 50 50
Fax: ++49 +30 - 4 50 57 39 02
www.charite.de
the oldest preserved Charite buildings date back to 1900 from 1698 to 1716 Berlin's Renaissance Stadt-Schloss got a Baroque facelift
detailed visual description and historical photographs of the town palace, destroyed in World War II and finally demolished in the 1950's
Senate Department for Urban Development
www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/bauen/wanderungen/en/sch_01.shtml information on the Baroque Parochial church and the Spandauer Vorstadt Sophien church:
Senate Department for Urban Development:www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/denkmal/denkmale_in_berlin/en/
parish information Parochial church:
www.marienkirche-berlin.de/parochialkirche.html
the website is German only - try google's translation tool:
www.marienkirche-berlin.de/parochialkirche.html
parish information Sophien church:
www.sophien.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool:
www.sophien.de the Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens is in charge of Friedrich II's Rococo palaces
Sanssouci in Potsdam, Rheinsberg, the Rococo wing of Schloss Charlottenburg: www.spsg.de
Sansscouci palace and park are part of the UNESCO World Heritage detailed information on Berlin's Classicist buildings: the Opera House, the St-Hedwigs cathedral, the Alte Bibliothek, the Humboldt University, the Brandenburg Gate, the Neue Wache, the Schlossbruecke, the Alte Museum, the Friedrichwerdersche Kirche:
Senate Department for Urban Development
www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/denkmal/denkmale_in_berlin/en/
the Prussian Heritage Collection is in charge of the Schinkel Museum in the Friedrichwerdersche Kirche and the exhibitions in the Alte Museum:
www.smb.spk-berlin.de
the Alte Museum is part of the UNESCO's World Heritage information on the Pfaueninsel island, Potdam's Neue Garten and the Marmorpalais, the palace and palace park of Glienicke palace:
Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens
www.spsg.de the landscape design of Peter Joseph Lenné e.g. in the park Glienicke palace:
Senate Department for Urban Development
www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/umwelt/stadtgruen Pfaueninsel island, Potsdam's Neue Garten and the Marmorpalais, the Glienicke palace and the palace park are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Staatsoper Unter den Linden
Unter den Linden 7
10117 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 20 35 - 40
Fax: ++49 +30 - 20 35 - 44 80
www.staatsoper-berlin.org
besucherservice@staatsoper-berlin.de
opera, ballett & concerts in Classicist atmosphere Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
10117 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 20 93 - 0
Fax: ++49 +30 - 20 93 - 2770
www.hu-berlin.de
the Alte Bibliothek library building and the Palais of the Humboldt University date back to the times of Friedrich II you find Henriette von Vogel's and Heinrich von Kleist's grave at Bismarckstr.3, district Berlin Steglitz, at the Kleine Wannsee lake (Wannsee train station, S1, S7, RE1), there is a documentation of the suicide at Wannsee - letters, notes, official documents - at www.textkritik.de/bka - the website is German only the two Classicist domes commissioned by Friedrich II changed the two churches to the Deutsche and Franzoesische Dom cathedral - you can climb the tower of the Franzoesiche Dom: Viewing Platform of the Franzoesische Dom Cathedral
Gendarmenmarkt 5
10117 Berlin
www.franzoesischer-dom-berlin.de
the website is German only -
try google's translation tool: www.franzoesischer-dom-berlin.de
info@franzoesischer-dom-berlin.de
the viewing platform has been closed for renovation works since May 2005 there is an exhibition on 1848's revolutionary events in the
Deutscher Dom
Ways - Wrong Routes - Detours - The Development of Parliamentary Democracy in Germany
Exhibition by the German Parliament
Gendarmenmarkt 1
10117 Berlin
www.bundestag.de/bau_kunst/ausst/wege/
German only page - try google's translation tool: www.bundestag.de/bau_kunst/ausst/wege/
ausstellungsbuero2.pi5@bundestag.de today you find the Konzerthaus Berlin in the Classicist Schauspielhaus at Gendarmenmarkt square
10117 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 2 03 09 - 0
www.konzerthaus.de
info@konzerthaus.de
picture gallery of the building designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, performances and the programme of the Berliner Sinfonie Orchester Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum fuer Gegenwart Berlin
Invalidenstrasse 50-51
10557 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 39 78 34 - 11
Fax: ++49 +30 - 39 78 34 - 13
www.hamburgerbahnhof.de
hbf.smb.spk-berlin.de
modern art in 1847's station - and a restaurant www.sarahwieners.de Zoologial Garden
Hardenbergplatz 8
10787 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 2 54 01 - 0
Fax: ++49 +30 - 2 54 01 - 2 55
www.zoo-berlin.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: http://www.zoo-berlin.de
info@zoo-berlin.de
the oldest German zoo boasting the largest number of species worldwide, the website informs on animals, guided tours, programs for children, children's birthdays
there is an exhibition on 1848's revolutionary events in the
Deutscher Dom
Ways - Wrong Routes - Detours - The Development of Parliamentary Democracy in Germany
Exhibition by the German Parliament
Gendarmenmarkt 1
10117 Berlin
www.bundestag.de/bau_kunst/ausst/wege/
German only page - try google's translation tool: www.bundestag.de/bau_kunst/ausst/wege/
ausstellungsbuero2.pi5@bundestag.de the Heckmann Hoefe courtyards between Oranienburger Strasse 32 and Auguststrasse 9www.heckmann-hoefe.de are a typical Berlin mix of tenement blocks, workshops, residential & business buildings
the oldest house dates back to 1845 - today you find shops, a cafe, bar & restaurant, a theater and a candy manufacture in the courtyards
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.heckmann-hoefe.de Kastanienallee 77 Life and Art Project
http://www.k77.org/
the website is German only
oldest preserved house in Prenzlauer Berg - dating back to 1848 Gruenderzeitmuseum of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
Hultschiner Damm 333
12623 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 5 67 83 29
Fax: ++49 +30 - 56 59 48 73
www.gruenderzeitmuseum.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.gruenderzeitmuseum.de
masters' room, dining room, living room and work room, ladies' saloon, music machine room, kitchen and washing kitchen - Gruenderzeit interiors, including the Scheunenviertel Mulackritze pub - with whores' room Neue Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum
Oranienburger Strasse 28-30
10117 Berlin
Tel: ++49 + 30 - 8 80 28 - 4 51
Fax: ++49 + 30 - 2 82 11 76
www.cjudaicum.de
exhibition on the history of the synagogue and Berlin's Jewish community the Knoblauch-Haus in the Nikolai quarter shows 19th century interiors, the Foundation Stadtmuseum Berlin is in charge: www.stadtmuseum.de,
and there are thesupporters of the Museum - family and friends: www.knoblauchhaus.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.knoblauchhaus.de
Poststrasse 23
10178 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 24 00 20 - 1 71
at present the museum is closed for renovation the Rote Rathaus - red council house - named for its red brick appearance - near Alexanderplatz is the seat of Berlin's mayor
Rathausstrasse 15
10173 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 90 26 - 0
Fax: ++49 +30 - 90 26 - 20 13
www.berlin.de
Der-Regierende-Buergermeister@SKZL.verwalt-berlin.de near Potsdamer Platz, the Martin-Gropius-Bau is managed by the Berliner Festspiele
Niederkirchner Strasse 7 / Ecke Stresemannstrasse 110
10963 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 25486 - 0
Fax: ++49 +30 - 25486 - 107
www.gropiusbau.de
post@gropiusbau.de
the Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge - objects museum - on the second floor - opens on appointment for researchers
Tel: ++49 +30 - 25 49 69 00
Fax: ++49 +30 - 25 48 69 01
www.werkbundarchiv-berlin.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool:www.werkbundarchiv-berlin.de
info@museumderdinge.de
information on the Reichstag and the Reichtag's dome
German Parliament
www.bundestag.de/htdocs_e/info/050vberl.html
Berlin's Senate Department for Urban Development website describes in detail the area around Kurfuerstendamm Avenue in 'Walks through Berlin - From Adenauerplatz to Wittenbergplatz'
www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/bauen/wanderungen information on the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Gedaechtniskirche
by the "General Management of the Formerly Reigning Prussian Royal Family's Official Website of the House of Hohenzollern":
www.preussen.de,
the page is German only - try google's translation tool: www.preussen.de
there is a webcam of today's reconstructed Gedaechtniskirche on the parish's website - translated with google's language tool - www.gedaechtniskirche.com today's chorus line stage Friedrichstadtpalast was built in 1983
Friedrichstrasse 107
10117 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 23 26 23 26
www.friedrichstadtpalast.de
German only website
presse@friedrichstadtpalast.de opened in 1892, the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm performed the plays of Bertold Brecht, Carl Zuckmayer and Marieluise Fleisser, Bertold Brecht and Helene Weigel were the directors in the 1950's, today renowned directors stage established playwrights - Bertold Brecht for example
Berliner Ensemble
Bertold-Brecht-Platz 1
10117 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 2 84 08 - 1 53
www.berliner-ensemble.de
- the website is German only -
presse@berliner-ensemble.de built from 1895 to 1896 near Kurfuerstendamm avenue
Theater des Westens
Kantstrasse 12
10623 Berlin
www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de information on the Pergamon Museum on the Berlin National Museums' website www.smb.spk-berlin.de
the Pergamon Museum and the Museumsinsel island are part of the UNESCO World Heritage from 1906 to 1907 the Hackesche Hoefe courtyards were built near Oranienburger Strasse - in the demolished part of the Scheunenviertel
Rosenthaler Strasse 40 & Sophienstrasse 6
10117 Berlin
www.hackesche-hoefe.com
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.hackesche-hoefe.com
virtual tour & photographs, information on the history, shops, cinema, theater & variety stage of the Hackesche Hoefe in the demolished part of Scheunenviertel at today's Rosa-Luxemburg square the Volksbuehne - people's stage - opened in 1914
today modern plays are staged here - at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and in a beergarden dating back to 1852:
Volksbuehne
Linienstrasse 227
10178 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 2 40 65 - 5
Fax: ++49 +30 - 2 40 65 - 6 42
www.volksbuehne-berlin.de
the website is German only
info@volksbuehne-berlin.de
Prater, Kastanienallee 7-9, 10435 Prenzlauer Berg www.praterteam.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.praterteam.de in the remains of the Friedrichstrassen-Passagen department store built from 1907 to 1909 you find the
Kunsthaus Tacheles
Oranienburger Strasse 54-56
10117 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 2 82 61 - 85
Fax: ++49 +30 - 2 82 61 - 30
www.tacheles.de
some English translation in between German text, website is mainly German
office@tacheles.de the building of the Deutsche Theaters dates back to 1849-50, Max Reinhardt was the director from 1905 onwards:
Schumannstrasse 13a
10117 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 28 44 12 21
Fax: ++49 +30 - 28 24 117
www.deutschestheater.de
the website is German only
service@deutschestheater.de
Classicist theater in a historic building the Kaufhaus des Westens - KadeWe dates back to 1907
Tauentzienstrasse 21-24
10789 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 21 21 - 0
Fax: ++49 +30 - 21 21 - 26 20
www.kadewe.de
info@kadewe.de
traditional Berlin department store - the food department is famous
the website is German only - try google's translation tool
www.kadewe.de Babelsberg became film city in 1912, today, in the summer months, visitors look behind the scenery and watch stunt shows in the
Filmpark Babelsberg
August-Bebel-Strasse 26-53
14482 Potsdam
Tel: ++49 +3 31 - 7 21 27 50
Fax: ++49 +3 31 - 7 21 27 37
www.filmpark.de
the website is German only
info@filmpark.de the Filmmuseum Potsdam documents more than 80 years of Babelsberg Film History
Marstall at Lustgarten
14467 Potsdam
Tel: 03 31 - 2 71 81 - 0
Fax: 03 31 - 2 71 81 - 26
www.filmmuseum-potsdam.de
info@filmmuseum-potsdam.de the Filmmuseum Berlin shows the history of German cinema from the beginnings up to today - e.g. Marlene Dietrich's estate:
Potsdamer Strasse 2, Filmhaus (Sony-Center)
10785 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 30 09 03 - 0
Fax: ++49 +30 - 30 09 03 - 13
www.filmmuseum-berlin.de
info@filmmuseum-berlin.de the true story of the Captain of Koepenick arresting the mayor and confiscating the treasury was made famous by Carl Zuckmayer's play and a film with Heinz Ruehmann, in Koepenick today, you find an exhibition on the Captain in the Rathaus Koepenick council house
Alt-Koepenick 21
12555 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 61 72 - 33 51
Fax: ++49 +30 - 61 72 - 33 52
www.heimatmuseum-koepenick.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool:www.heimatmuseum-koepenick.de
info@heimatmuseum-koepenick.de
the Anti War Museum shows exhibits from two World Wars:
Bruesseler Strasse 21
13353 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 95 49 01 10
www.anti-kriegs-museum.de
Anti-Kriegs-Museum@gmx.de
the museum was founded by a pacifist in the 1920's the Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens is in charge of the last Hohenzollern palace Schloss Cecilienhof in Potsdam www.spsg.de -Schloss Cecilienhof is part of the UNESCO's World Heritage photographs and comprehensive information on the Siemensstadt district are availabe on Karl H.P. Bienek's website www.siemens-stadt.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool:www.siemens-stadt.de in the country house Mies van der Rohe built for Mr. and Mrs. Lemke at the Obersee lake in 1932, exhibitions take place:
Landhaus Lemke - Mies van der Rohe Haus
Kulturamt Lichtenberg
Oberseestrasse 60
13053 Berlin
Tel/Fax: ++49 +30 - 97 00 06 18
www.miesvanderrohehaus.de
the website is German only Hans Poelzig designed the Filmtheater Babylon towards the end of the 1920's
Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 30
10178 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 2 42 50 76
Fax: ++49 +30 - 2 42 45 10
www.babylonberlin.de
the website is German only Bauhaus history, collections, exhibitions & library in a museums' building designed by Walter Gropius, built from 1976 to 1979
Bauhaus Archiv - Museum fuer Gestaltung
Klingelhoeferstrasse 14
10785 Berlin Tiergarten
Tel: ++49 +30 - 25 40 02 78
Fax: ++49 +30 - 25 40 02 10
www.bauhaus.de
bauhaus@bauhaus.de opened in 1892, the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm performed the plays of Bertold Brecht, Carl Zuckmayer and Marieluise Fleisser, Bertold Brecht and Helene Weigel were the directors in the 1950's, today renowned directors stage established playwrights - Bertold Brecht for example
Berliner Ensemble
Bertold-Brecht-Platz 1
10117 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 2 84 08 - 1 53
www.berliner-ensemble.de
- the website is German only -
presse@berliner-ensemble.de Bertold Brecht and Helene Weigel moved to Chausseestrasse after 1945
Literaturforum im Brechthaus
Chausseestrasse 125
10115 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 2 82 20 03,Tel/Fax: ++49 +30 - 2 82 34 17
www.lfbrecht.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.lfbrecht.de
info@lfbrecht.de
you can visit the work rooms of Bertold Brecht and Helene Weigel, there are lectures and readings today's chorus line stage Friedrichstadtpalast was built in 1983 across the road from Hans Poelzig's Friedrichstadtpalast
Friedrichstrasse 107
10117 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 23 26 23 26
www.friedrichstadtpalast.de
German only website
presse@friedrichstadtpalast.de in the demolished part of Scheunenviertel at today's Rosa-Luxemburg square the Volksbuehne - people's stage - opened in 1914, in the 1920's the Volksbuehne performed Erich Piscator's plays
today modern plays are staged - at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and in a beergarden dating back to 1852:
Volksbuehne
Linienstrasse 227
10178 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 2 40 65 - 5
Fax: ++49 +30 - 2 40 65 - 6 42
www.volksbuehne-berlin.de
the website is German only
info@volksbuehne-berlin.de
Prater, Kastanienallee 7-9, 10435 Prenzlauer Berg www.praterteam.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.praterteam.de some of 1920's Scheunenviertel atmosphere can be felt in the interior of the Mulackritze pub - with whores' room - in the Gruenderzeitmuseum of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
Hultschiner Damm 333
12623 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 5 67 83 29
Fax: ++49 +30 - 56 59 48 73
www.gruenderzeitmuseum.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.gruenderzeitmuseum.de
Claire Waldoff was here, Heinrich Zille, Gustav Gruendgens, Marlene Dietrich and Henny Porten or you go to the Heinrich Zille Museum in the Nikolai quarter:
Probststrasse 11
10178 Berlin
Tel: ++49 30 - 24 63 25 00
Fax: ++49 30 - 24 64 25 02
www.heinrich-zille-museum.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.heinrich-zille-museum.deinfo@heinrich-zille-museum.de the Gedenkstaette Koepenicker Blutwoche Juni 1933 commemorates Koepenick's victims of SA torture
Puchanstrasse 12
12555 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 6 57 14 67
Fax: ++49 +30 - 61 72 33 52
www.heimatmuseum-koepenick.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.heimatmuseum-koepenick.de the headquarters of the National Socialist SS, the Secret State Police Gestapo and the Main Imperial Security Office were located at Niederkirchner Strasse, their history is documented by the exhibition Topographie des Terrors
www.topographie.de Gedenkstaette Deutscher Widerstand - German Resistance Memorial
Staufenbergstrasse 13-14
10785 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 26 99 - 50 00
Fax: ++49 +30 - 26 99 - 50 10
www.gdw-berlin.de
info@gdw-berlin.de
exhibition on German resistance from Christian to Communist groups in the former Bendlerblock -here the generals of July 20, 1944 were shot
other conjurers of July 20 died in Ploetzensee jail
Huettigpfad
13627 Berlin
www.gedenkstaette-ploetzensee.de in 2008 you can see the the exhibition 'Myth Germania' with models of the designs of Albert Speer in a pavillion near Brandenburg gate - next to the 'Memorial to the Jews of Europe'
www.berlinerunterwelten.de
information on the history and photographs of the remodeling of the Olympic Stadion for the Football World Championship in 2006: www.olympiastadion-berlin.de in the former Reichsluftfahrt - aviation ministry - today's ministry of finance tries to animate the building felt to be "monumental and intimidating"
Wilhelmstrasse 97
14109 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +18 88 - 6 82 - 0
Fax: ++49 +18 88 - 6 82 - 32 60
http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de
poststelle@bmf.bund.de
the visitors' service offers tours through the house in the Haus am Wannsee, the SS and the ministers of the respective departments coordinated the deportation and murder of European Jews
Haus der Wannseekonferenz
memorial and documentation center
Am Grossen Wannsee 56-58
14109 Berlin
Tel/Fax: ++49 +30 - 8 05 00 10
www.ghwk.de
info@ghwk.de
German-Russian Museum Karlshorst
Zwieselstrasse 4 / corner Rheinsteinstrasse
10318 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 50 15 08 10
Fax: ++49 +30 - 50 15 08 40
www.mauer-museum.com
kontakt@museum-karlshorst.de
there is an English version for every page
German-Soviet history from 1917 onwards the Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens is in charge of the last Hohenzollern palace Schloss Cecilienhof in Potsdam
www.spsg.de
Schloss Cecilienhof is part of the UNESCO's World Heritage
the conference rooms of the Potsdam Agreement have been preserved since 1945. detailed description of the Berlin Wall
'Walks through Berlin. Wall Tour'
Senate Department for Urban Development
www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/bauen/wanderungen www.die-berliner-mauer.de
documentation of the wall including photographs of the East Side Gallery at Oberbaumbruecke bridge
the Wall Museum at Checkpoint Charlie's former transit point organises exhibitions, guided tours and lectures
Friedrichstrasse 43 - 45
10923 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 25 29 62 45
Fax: ++49 +30 - 2 51 20 75
www.mauer-museum.com
Dokumentation Center Berlin Wall
Bernauer Strasse 111
13355 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 14 64 10 30
Fax: ++49 +30 - 46 06 97 40
www.berliner-mauer-dokumentationszentrum.de
Memorial Notaufnahmelager Berlin Marienfelde
Marienfelder Allee 66-80
12277 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 90 17 33 25
Fax: ++49 +30 - 90 17 31 90
www.enm-berlin.de
enm-berlin@gmx.de
exhibition on German-German immigration Allies Museum
Clay-Allee 135 - Outpost
14195 Berlin - Zehlendorf
Tel: ++49 +30 - 81 81 99 - 0
Fax: ++49 +30 - 81 81 99 - 91
www.alliiertenmuseum.de
documentation of the presence of the Allies in Berlin from 1945 to 1994. Research Center and Memorial Normannenstrasse
Normannenstrasse 22, Haus 1
10365 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 5 53 68 54
Fax: ++49 +30 - 5 53 68 53
www.stasi-museum.de
mfsmuseum@aol.com
building of the GDR Ministry for State Security, you can visit minister Erich Mielke's office Memorial Berlin-Hohenschoenhausen
Genslerstrasse 66
13055 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 98 60 82 - 30
Fax: ++49 +30 - 98 60 82 - 4 64
www.stiftung-hsh.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.stiftung-hsh.de
info@stiftung-hsh.de
the former remand prison of the GDR Ministry for State Security a former prison of the GDR state security in Potsdam
Memorial Lindenstrasse
Lindenstrasse 24
14467 Potsdam
Tel: ++49 +3 31 - 2 89 68 - 03
you find information on the memorial by clicking into www.museen-brandenburg.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.museen-brandenburg.de
the Kulturforum was built in West Berlin in the 1960's: exhibitions in Kulturforum are organised by
Verein des Kulturforums Tiergarten e.V.
www.ortkultur.de
the website is German only
mail@ortkultur.de information on museums at Kulturforum
National Museums of Berlin
www.smb.spk-berlin.de designed by Hans Scharoun, the Philharmonie was built in 1963
Herbert-von-Karajan-Strasse 1
10785 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 5 53 68 54
Fax: ++49 +30 - 5 53 68 53
www.berliner-philharmoniker.de
werbung@berliner-philharmoniker.de
the visitors' center offers guided tours through the Philharmonie building information on the Staatsbibliothek - national library - in Kulturforum designed by Hans Scharoun
Foundation Prussian Heritage
www.sbb.spk-berlin.de
information on the Neue Nationalgalerie by Mies van der Rohe
www.smb.spk-berlin.de Bauhaus history, collections, exhibitions & library in a museums' building designed by Walter Gropius, built from 1976 to 1979
Bauhaus Archiv - Museum fuer Gestaltung
Klingelhoeferstrasse 14
10785 Berlin Tiergarten
Tel: ++49 +30 - 25 40 02 78
Fax: ++49 +30 - 25 40 02 10
www.bauhaus.de
bauhaus@bauhaus.de Le Corbusier Haus Berlin
Flatowallee 16
14055 Berlin Charlottenburg
www.corbusierhaus-berlin.de
in the apartment house built for the construction exhibition INTERBAU 1957 near the Olympic Stadion you can go on guided tours, buy an apartment, rent a flat - you get a spectacular view of Berlin from higher floor levels the US contribution for the INTERBAU 1957 was the Congress Hall by Hugh Stebbins
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10577 Berlin
www.hkw.de
info@hkw.de Deutsche Oper
Bismarckstrasse 35
10627 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 3 43 84 - 01
www.deutscheoperberlin.de
German only website - try google's translation tool: www.deutscheoperberlin.de
info@deutscheoperberlin.de information on the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Gedaechtniskirche
"General Management of the Formerly Reigning Prussian Royal Family's Official Website of the House of Hohenzollern"
www.preussen.de,
the page is German only - try google's translation tool: www.preussen.de
there is a webcam of today's reconstructed Gedaechtniskirche on the parish's website - translated with google's language tool - www.gedaechtniskirche.com the Television Tower at Alexanderplatz was built in 1969
http://www.berlinerfernsehturm.de
opening times, revolving restaurant etc. - you get a good view from Berlin's television tower, there is a Tourist Information on the ground floor, sightseeing buses start at the bus stop in front the Senate Department for Urban Development's website describes East Berlin's Stalinallee (today's Karl-Marx-Allee) and the Haus des Lehrers
in comparison with contemporary West Berlin architecture
www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/denkmal
with photographs you find a comprehensive photo documentation of the East Berlin Palast der Republik building's interior and its history in the documentation of the exhibition "wenn Kommunisten träumen - Communist dreams" on the website of the German History Museum http://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/pdr/
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: http://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/pdr/- the Palast der Republik was demolished in 2006 for the reconstruction of Berlin's town palace Berlin's housing associations revive empty prefabricated concrete tower blocks, in Hellersdorfer Strasse 173 and 175 young artists, architects and designers redecorate two high rise buildings, in No 179 a museum exhibits Wohnungs-Standard WBS 70 - a model flat out of the GDR's 1980's: floral wallcovering and settee, a carpet from Ulan-Bator and kitchen chairs from Tirana (Kottbusser Platz, U5, the museum's apartment is opened on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 14:00 hours to 18:00 hours, Sundays from 14:00 hours to 16:00 hours, information / appointment ++49 +30 - 9 90 11 61, the housing association 'Stadt und Land' is in charge www.stadtundland.de in 1987 East Berlin's observatory opened the doors in Ulrich Muether's swinging concrete shell
Zeiss Grossplanetarium
Prenzlauer Allee 80
10405 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 42 18 45 12
www.astw.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.astw.de
zgp@astw.de
1896's Archenbold observatory in Berlin-Treptow shares the website concerts, exhibitions, discussion evenings, cinema, a billiard saloon, a restaurant and a beergarden in a former brewery
Kulturbrauerei
Schoenhauser Allee 36
10435 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 48 49 44 44
Fax: ++49 +30 - 48 49 44 00
www.kulturbrauerei.de
info@kulturbrauerei.de
the established rock & pop concert hall used to be a circus tent
Tempodrom
Moeckernstrasse 10
Buero: Stresemannstrasse 72
10963 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 26 39 98 - 0
Fax: ++49 +30 - 26 39 98 - 10
www.tempodrom.de
info@tempodrom.de
Mehringhof
Gneisenaustrasse 2a
10961 Berlin
www.mehringhof.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.mehringhof.de
factory site bought by alternative projects: workshops & non profit organisations, theater, pub & restaurant, political initiatives ufa fabrik - Internationales Kultur Centrum
Victoriastrasse 10-18
12 105 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 7 55 03 - 0
Fax: ++49 +30 - 7 55 03 - 110
www.ufafabrik.de
info@ufafabrik.de
solar energy, green roofs and fronts, use of rain water - eco hightech in the former Universal Film AG's film processing factory - theater, comedy, circus, dance, variety acts, world music, workshops, programmes for children & circus school, children's farm, guesthouse, ecological bakery, cafe, artists' agency - the ufa factory is an established alternative project Reunion, Representative Government Buildings & Company Headquartersinformation on the Reichstag and the Reichtag's dome
German Parliament
www.bundestag.de/htdocs_e/info/050vberl.html
Wrapped Reichstag by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
http://christojeanneclaude.net/wr.html
photo documentation of the "Wrapped Reichstag" project the Jewish Museum documents two thousand years of German Jewish history
Lindenstrasse 9-14
10969 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 2 59 93 - 3 00
Fax: ++49 +30 - 2 59 93 - 4 09
www.jmberlin.de
info@jmberlin.de
fuehrungen@jmberlin.de
information on the architecture of the museum's building, permanent and changing exhibitions, guided tours, collections & publications, special programmes for children & youths, the Leo Baeck archive and the restaurant Liebermann Berlin's Senate Department for Urban Development website describes in detail the Reichstag and the new government buildings in 'Walks through Berlin - Government Precinct Tour'www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/bauen/wanderungen, you also find a 'Wall Tour' there detailed information on the new embassies:
Senate Department for Urban Development
www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/bauen/botschaften designed by Rem Kohlhaas, the Embassy of the Netherlands opened in 2004
Klosterstrasse 50
10179 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 2 09 56 - 0
Fax: ++49 +30 - 2 09 56 - 441
www.niederlandeweb.de
Sony Center
www.sony-center.de
photo's of the 1930's and documentation of the construction works at Potsdamer Platz DaimlerChrysler Center
www.sammlung.daimlerchrysler.com
virtual tour of the sculptures at Potsdamer Platz, history of the Haus Huth, dating back to 1912, the only preserved Empire building at Potsdamer Platz, information on the exhibition of the DaimlerChrysler Collection in Haus Huth architecture by Max Dudler in Berlin
www.maxdudler.com
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Peter Eisenman's field of stelae near Brandenburg gate
www.holocaust-mahnmal.de/en/
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