Slow Travel Berlin
@slowberlin
Berlin-based history, culture and travel website. We are community-funded—the only thing we sell is memberships: https://steadyhq.com/en/slowtravelberlin
In an online world where everyone is selling ads or themselves, the only thing we sell is community memberships. They start from as little as 3€ a month. We need more members to survive into 2024. Please help if you can / like what we do. 🙏 steadyhq.com/en/slowtravelb…
If you had asked us recently if Karl Marx Strasse’s construction work was finally finished, we would have said there was more chance of being bitten by a snowman. However, we went there today and the rumours are true! It’s a Christmas miracle! Marx himself would be proud. #berlin…
“On September 13th 1913, Fritz Bühler opened the dance hall “Bühlers Ballhaus“ (Bühler’s Ballroom) in the back of Auguststrasse 24/25. The venue quickly became a prime address for a mix of the Berlin’s ‘haut monde’ and blue-collar labourers, all in quest of a relaxed ‘Schwoof’…
23 July 1951: a new cinema opens in East Berlin at the junction of Unter den Linden and Friedrichstraße (via Bundesarchiv)
“Casually straddling the boroughs of Prenzlauer Berg and Friedrichshain, and within easy walking distance from Mitte, the park takes up an audacious fifty-two hectares, making it the second largest park in Berlin after the sprawling Tiergarten. It was actually the park that gave…
Happening now in Tel Aviv: we march with the pictures of the children in Gaza who were starved to death by our government and our army. We cannot accept it. We call people to refuse the starvation, to refuse the killing, to refuse the annihilation.
“Absolutely nothing to do with Berlin”? 😂 Your pro-genocide bias is showing my dear.
Why does the user @slowberlin tweet something that has absolutely nothing to do with Berlin, but instead tweets about something related to the Middle East?
I feel like this should have been a way bigger story. archive.ph/6YPQD#selectio…
In case you missed it … new article up on the website about the art of (German to English) literary translation from two of its best practitioners…
Pictured are just some of the fabulous books translated from German into English by two literary powerhouses—Berlin resident Katy Derbyshire and former Berlin resident @translationista. Our latest website article sees writer Kendra Atleework interview the two of them about the…
Hundreds of Israelis are now marching in the center of Tel Aviv against the starvation of Gaza at the hands of the Israeli government. Some are holding sacks of flour.
More fantastic social housing in Barcelona, designed by Cierto Estudio Mass timber structure, with an amazing mint green and red colour scheme - a thread 🧵
21 July 1979: the Parkbücherei in Berlin-Pankow's Bürgerpark (via Bundesarchiv)
Pictured are just some of the fabulous books translated from German into English by two literary powerhouses—Berlin resident Katy Derbyshire and former Berlin resident @translationista. Our latest website article sees writer Kendra Atleework interview the two of them about the…
Hello cute little s bahn station building 👋 (Ostkreuz) #berlin
The last slice of a bread loaf has its own name in Germany - well actually it has a dozen names, because each German dialect calls it differently. Where I grew up it's called "Knäppchen". How do you call it?
The world’s first Anti-War Museum was founded in Berlin in 1925 by the pacifist and writer Ernst Friedrichs. The image below shows it’s original location at Parochialstraße 29, near Alexanderplatz. In March 1933 – after countless lawsuits against Friedrich’s pacifist work – the…
