Berlin ReGuided

09/05/2024

On tour with a group from

16/03/2024

21/01/2024

'Unter den Linden Street in Berlin' (1890) by Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowiczowa

Spotted in the

24/10/2023

Detail from an enormous mural by in a courtyard behind Potsdamer Strasse

22/10/2023

installation at



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17/10/2023

Found this magnificent lad down in Engelbecken, a former part of the Berlin Wall 'death strip' just over the Mitte side of the border with Kreuzberg.

The apartments on the left are pre-War, mostly turn of the century tenements which end up in the west and the apartments on the right are post-unification, built in what used to be east Berlin

17/07/2023

Genie enjoying some outsider art in Kreuzberg

13/07/2023

Golden hour plattenbau on Köpenicker Strasse

10/07/2023

Starting today's tour at the Schloss Charlottenburg

09/07/2023

Stumbled across this mural by .xlf on a quiet Prenzlauerberg street. Big fan of this one - it looks a bit like Jack Kirby's more out-there stuff for DC comics in the 70s 🙃

07/07/2023

The pulpit at Zionskirche - a church that played a role in resistance to both the N**i and East German communist dictatorships.

14/06/2023

Gonna miss these ladies for the next 10-12 years

13/06/2023

The Gartenstrasse entrance to Nordbahnhof station was sealed off shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Nordbahnhof subsequently became a 'ghost station' whereby trains originating in west Berlin could travel through without stopping. One of the guard towers at the Wall can be seen in the background.

07/06/2023

Westhafen U Bahn station is decorated with articles from the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights

04/06/2023

One of the chimneys at the former Bötzow brewery - a sprawling mid-19th century complex at the foot of Prenzlauerberg.

31/05/2023

A new(ish) collab from and .dyr in Haus Schwarzenberg

20/04/2023

Spotted on Oranienstrasse. I'm not a big fan of Beuys l, if I'm being honest but there's something quite enjoyably ridiculous about him which lends itself well to stuff like this.

17/04/2023

Mensashe Kadishman's 'Fallen Leaves' installation in the Jewish Museum

14/04/2023

I've visited the roof and dome of the Reichstag dozens of times over the years but there are still details that I missed until now. Damage from the final battle for the building (and Berlin) in 1945 is visible all over the outside of the structure but these bullet holes are in the inside facing walls.

27/03/2023

The German Historical Museum can be found in the former Zeughaus, or arsenal, of Prussia. The building was originally finished in 1706, making it one of the oldest surviving buildings in the historical centre.

In March 1943, a military officer named Rudolf von Gersdorff planned to assassinate Adolf Hi**er here, but was foiled by the N**i dictator changing his plans at the last minute.

13/03/2023

📸 by Bernd Markowsky

Urban combat manoeuvres by the US military in Kreuzberg, 1980.

The crumbling, neglected corner of west Berlin was seen by the US authorities as an ideal place to run exercises. The local population were also less likely to complain (or indeed be listened to) than the more bourgeois inhabitants of other west Berlin districts.

02/03/2023

Snapped yesterday giving a tour of Jewish Berlin to my fellow guides from

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24/02/2023

There was a couple from Taiwan on a tour I gave for over 10 years ago. The guy didn't speak much English but was really into all the street art in Kreuzberg. At the end, his girlfriend told me that he was a street artist called and gave me a couple of postcards with his stuff on them. Through her, he explained that he always wanted to paint on the Berlin Wall. About 2 days later, I passed this mural that he'd done on the East Side Gallery, the longest remaining section of the wall left in Berlin.

22/02/2023

On this day in German history: Sophie and Hans Scholl were murdered by the N**is. The siblings were members of the White Rose - a group of non-violent activists.

Their actions were far from typical of the period and should be remembered as such. The post-war myth that everyone seemed to have been part of the resistance was largely exactly that - a myth. It's also worth bearing in mind, however, that the Scholls were killed largely for the act of printing leaflets against the dictatorship, proving that even relative minor acts of defiance against the n**i state were usually met with extreme violence.

19/02/2023

is on holiday at the moment but I spotted these dolphin lads all over Palermo that I've seen in back in Berlin plenty times over the years. Anyone know the artist?

06/02/2023

The interior of the DZ Bank on Pariser Platz.

Architect Frank Gehry is known / notorious for flamboyant buildings but most people would never guess that this building was a Gehry until they stepped inside. The main entrance faces the Brandenburg Gate, and it's rumoured that the architect was told to rein things in a bit so as not to distract from the gate.

29/01/2023

A room in the former Stasi prison at Hohenschönhausen. Suspects arrested by the secret police of East Germany/ GDR would, after a sometimes protracted period of interrogation, be brought here for sentencing. A judge would be sat in a separate room - partly visible through the bars on the left.

Around 45,000 people would come through this facility with the overwhelming majority subsequently transferred to more 'traditional' prisons to serve out their sentences.

The wire that can be seen around the cell door ran throughout the entire cell block. If the guards broke the connection at any point, an alarm would sound.

24/01/2023

Mural for Attila Murat Aydın, MC, graffiti writer and founder of the now defunct Kreuzberg gang '36 Boys'. Known as Maxim, he also founded one of the first Turkish language hip-hop crews, 'Islamic Force' whose lyrics reflected the experience of the Turkish gastarbeiters (guest workers) and their descendents. More than 50 years after the first guest workers arrived, the German state still refuses to give them citizenship unless they renounce their Turkish nationality.

In 2003 Maxim was murdered by an elderly German man who successfully argued on appeal that he felt threatened by Aydin intervening during an argument between the man and Aydin's wife.

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