10 things you dont expect to find in Berlin

[Skyline_FFM]

And others think the streets are deserted after 9 PM, any pics of nightlife?

[paderwan]

Originally Posted by Skyline_FFM

And others think the streets are deserted after 9 PM, any pics of nightlife?

That actually depends largely on the district.

I like that image from a flickr party.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seite-3/543642045/sizes/o/

Public parties are very common in Berlin, this one belongs to one house music festival.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mayda3000/611745675/

Germany has a very generous wellfare system, you can actually live the whole day without working or spent your time protesting against something. The myfest in Berlin.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/_timl/2462100662/sizes/o/

Just hang around and watch other people making party.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/_timl/2461254901/sizes/o/

[Slartibartfas]

Because someone called townhouses a British/American concept. Actually its a medieval European concept. Most if not all European cities looked that once. In many cities they disappeared during the Baroque age or later on.

The major difference is that the English speaking sphere continued to use that concept as it obviously has certain qualities. But I think they are not the sole ones, in Italy I have seen cities which are pretty much full of town houses as well, to a very large extend rather modern ones btw.

I think town houses are a very good concept also for this modern age, especially es counterconcept to suburbanity in its worst forms.

[Slartibartfas]

Originally Posted by paderwan

@ Skyline_FFM: People outside of Germany have some biased expectations of Berlin (and Germany). Some still think of the divided city and some believe that Berlin is still a heavily industrialised city with huge factory halls and smoking chimneys like in the 1920s.

Thats true. I liked Berlin when I visited alreay around 5 years ago, I know there has happened much in the meanwhile.

Berlin has however of course also other sides, and those sides can bee seen in quite central locations if you take the wrong direction at a crossing... Not that Commie blocks are hell, but they surely also belong to Berlin.

But maybe the shock I got when I fell over the Leipziger Straße and the square next to the Rathaus in the city center back then formed a picture of Berlin that is not very representative as there are large older quarters in Berlin also or maybe especially outside of the center.

[sky-eye]

Thanks for the varied pics. It's time for me to visit berlin.

[edubejar]

Originally Posted by skyboi

Because people don't want to discover new things in life ,they usually just stick with what they see ,hear and been fed by the main stream media , not me

This is largely true. The only reason I visited Berlin for the 1st time in March 2007 was because the two friends I was travelling with wanted to go back for their second time. We had already planned on Paris as 1 of 2 cities to visit...not because of the publicity or fame but because it's a city I love returning to as often as I can. We had to choose a second city and they wanted Berlin and I didn't care to know the place and wanted to visit Rome or Amsterdam or even return to a place I knew like London. Well, I accepted Berlin since they accepted Paris and I ended up liking Berlin so much that I'm returning this November (2008). I'm now obsessed with Berlin and it's amazing short (for European standards) but turbulent history, as well as its reconstruction and dynamism. I now try to watch any documentary and movie about Berlin. I LOVE Berlin...I think...well, I still need to experience it for the 2nd time!

Ironically, they ended up liking Paris a lot that they returned the next year and I added Berlin to my top city list, bumping out a few others. I also love that Berlin is so different from Paris (except for a few similar things that is expected among all major European cities) that I don't have to choose between both because they satisfy rather different interests and curiosities.

[edubejar]

Originally Posted by Slartibartfas

Because someone called townhouses a British/American concept. Actually its a medieval European concept. Most if not all European cities looked that once. In many cities they disappeared during the Baroque age or later on.

The major difference is that the English speaking sphere continued to use that concept as it obviously has certain qualities. But I think they are not the sole ones, in Italy I have seen cities which are pretty much full of town houses as well, to a very large extend rather modern ones btw.

I think town houses are a very good concept also for this modern age, especially es counterconcept to suburbanity in its worst forms.

I think you're referring to me. But I didn't say it was a British/American concept. I said townhouses are so British/American[/Canadian/Australian], as in very common/visible there. I am, however, surprised to read that most European cities looked like that once or that it's a Medieval concept. I'm having a hard time picturing them as Medieval, especially considering how different property rights were in the Medieval ages. Please send me a pic or two by Private Message of those in Italy if you can. I'm also having a hard time imagining them there. Of course, when I say townhouse, I picture a row of 2 or 3 story houses (aka "rowhouse or terraced house) that are narrow, each often with a narrow but long garden in the back the same width as the individual house. When in the Netherlands I learned that they are common there too, as is the case in parts of Belgium and the Greater Lille area, because of the Flemish influence and proximity in that small part of France.

[Lucas.]

fantastic, more please!!!!

[paderwan]

Berlin was a center of the roaring twenties in Germany. After the end of Imperial Germany a period of very liberal lifestyle followed known as die Goldenen Zwanziger (lit. the golden twenties). A little bit out of the line, but images from the 1920s in Berlin.

In front of the Brandenburg Gate.

http://flickr.com/photos/dlisbona/1804177601/sizes/o/

The Friedrichstraße in central Berlin.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pyroll/...7601447151271/

The latest Fashion...

http://www.daserste.de/bildgalerie/s...,~pic,3~cm.asp

Street riots

http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/ba103410/index.html

Einstein walking to his university

http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/f86_272/index.html

Police forces on horse, the whole Weimar Republic was politically instable.

http://einestages.spiegel.de/static/...NG&s=0&r=1&c=1


http://einestages.spiegel.de/externa...#featuredEntry


http://einestages.spiegel.de/externa...#featuredEntry

Advertisement for some show in Berlin called Die Nacht der Nächte (the night of all nights)

http://einestages.spiegel.de/externa...#featuredEntry

Get ready for the show

http://einestages.spiegel.de/externa...#featuredEntry

Could be Potsdamer Platz

http://www.360-berlin.de/index.html?...ies&method=all

An image from Erich Kästner called Berliner Straßenszene (berlin street scene)

http://aerzteblatt.lnsdata.de/bilder.../img105459.gif

Jazzband

http://flickr.com/photos/hab3045/2184731201/sizes/o/

Revuegirls

http://einestages.spiegel.de/externa...#featuredEntry

The old Potsdamer Platz

http://www.360-berlin.de/index.html?...ies&method=all


http://flickr.com/photos/hab3045/2184729593/sizes/o/

[christos-greece]

Amazing Berlin Those pics are amazing!

[Svartmetall]

Those historical pictures are incredible! It shows just how cutting edge Berlin used to be. It's beginning to regain that "cutting-edge" to it, but it's still got a way to go yet.

[frank hannover]

Wow , incredible pics , thank you !

[edubejar]

^ awesome historical pics! I love pics from the early 1900s. Funny though how those revue girls would not make it as revue girls these days. They look out of shape for today's standards.

[Nightsky]

Many of these places in Berlin I haven't seen before. I like the ruins of the old station.

[Skyline_FFM]

These historic air shots are awesome!!!

[snow is red]

wow German capital is otherworldly.

[HelloMoto163]

hey they deleted my post! why? it was the second post now of me -.-

[paderwan]

Probably because you didnt give the source of your images...

[HelloMoto163]

ive heard those old pics are license free

???

[accadacca]

Brilliant pics! GO BERLIN!!!