Architect Hans Poelzig designed the Kino Babylon and the surrounding apartment houses in an atmosphere of refined Expressionism as part of a 1920s project to revitalize the area surrounding today's Rosa Luxemburg Platz. The cinema's sleek lines provide an architec...
Freiluftkino Kreuzberg
Watching without a roof
Another great outdoor movie theater. Freiluftkino Kreuzberg is on a prime piece of real estate—right behind Kunstlerhaus ...
Siegesäule
Berlin's golden girl
The Victory Column at Grosser Stern is—after the Brandenburg Gate and the Television Tower—the most well-known land...
Gendarmenmarkt
Picture perfect
One of Berlin's most classically beautiful squares, embraced by the Konzerthaus and the German and French Cathedrals. Built in ...
Moviemento
A Century of Cinema
When this Kreuzberg theater opened in 1907 (as the Vitascope) cinema was in its infancy and Berlin was one of production center...
Theater Engelbrot
Bread and Circuses
How do you found and set-up a new theatre in the over-crowded Berlin cultural scene? You take over an old boulevard house in th...
The World Clock on Alexanderplatz
What Time Is Love?
Unveiled in 1969 as part of the DDR's plans for a modernized Alexanderplatz, Berlin's World Clock has become one of the city's ...
Hexenkessel Atrium Theatre
Shakespeare & Molière under the Sky
The lovely Monbijoupark on the banks of the River Spree plays host to the Hexenkessel Hoftheater's annual open-air theatre seri...
German Historical Museum
German Seeds
On 28 May 1695, the Elector Friedrich III of Brandenburg, gave the orders to lay the foundation stone of the Berlin "Zeughaus",...
Cinema Paris
The name says it all
When choosing between the many Berlin cinemas, make a decision for the traditional place for french and other european films in...
Kennedy Museum
Ich bin ein Berliner!
Understanding the Kennedy Family and their international effect is not easy to comprehend without knowing their special relatio...
DDR Museum
Once there was a wall
Living history, put across alive and playful. The GDR Museum shows the everyday life of a departed state and life in socialism....
Ballhaus-Ost
All Arts
Ballhaus-Ost is a wonderful piece of work of an art collective: artists from the areas of dance, science, theater, film, music ...
Einstein-Turm
Mendelsohn's Observatory
The "Einsteinturm" is the first important building designed by the famous architect Erich Mendelsohn. It was planned and built ...
Reichstag-Kuppel
Incomparable view on Politics
The current Reichstag dome is an iconic glass dome constructed on top of the rebuilt Reichstag building in Berlin. It was desig...
