In Search of Lost Air
Up until now we have tried to explore how the air of Berlin smells when it is looking toward an…
Category: Berlin’s Air
Mitte
Mitte means “center” and “center” is also the name of the central quarter of Berlin which once belonged to the…
Gentrified Kreuzberg, recalcitrant Kreuzberg, and the Kreuzberg that goes to work
Kreuzberg is more than a neighborhood. Whenever someone mentions Kreuzberg, they usually mean something else, and, quite often, they mean…
Lunch with the people and a smell of violets
When we get off the S-Bahn at Savigny Platz the air is no longer that of Grunewald, but we’re not…
In Search of Lost Air
Up until now we have tried to explore how the air of Berlin smells when it is looking toward an…
Fragments of Berlin – Copyright
All texts from Fragments of Berlin are protected by copyright and property of the Publisher L42 AG, Wittenbergplatz, 1 10779…
Fragments of Berlin – Editors’ Preface
At the beginning, the series “Fragments of Berlin” was only a very vague idea born in a Roman trattoria, which…
Die Berliner Luft, or The Air of Berlin
“(Das ist die) Berliner Luft” is the name of a famous march from the fantastical burlesque opera Frau Luna,…
Winterfeldtplatz, March, Saturday between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
From Nollendorfplatz U-Bahn station we cross the stretch of Maaßenstraße in large strides, the rich mixture of the typical smells…
KaDeWe on a Saturday afternoon
People often compare it to Harrods, to the Galeries Lafayette, and to other great modern temples of commerce and…
