Everything you never even knew you wanted to know about Berlin by the author Berlin history blog, theberlincompanion.com, Berlin Companion Audio Walks App and t...
Send us a textLove it or hate it - Berlin can and will keep surprising you. Sometimes those surprises will be less welcome but sometimes they will make your day, your week or even your next 20 years.Like this story did for me. In the last episode of Season 2 of the podcast, let me take you to a place I fell in love with from the go. Not a palace or a fancy apartment house - a factory site in Kreuzberg. Few of the former could put you on the trail that leads to history of espionage, history of small Berlin industries growing very big indeed and of machines battling each other first in war and then decades later for the pleasure of it.Enjoy !Music and sounds used for this episode:Main themes (Mystery for The Witty and Assembly Line Frustration by Ionics (licensed via Soundtaxi)"Alte Leierkasten" by Lobo Loco via freesoundarchive.org | License: Attribution 4.0"Mystery Keys" by https://freesound.org/people/quetzalcontla/ | License: Attribution 4.0"Enigma machine cipher device 2" by o_ultimo | License: Attribution 4.0"Enigma machine cipher device" by o_ultimo | License: Attribution 4.0Support the showRead fascinating stories from Berlin's past and present, and listen to all the episodes from Season 1 and 2 of the podcast on Substack: theberlincompanion.com Enjoy Berlin audio-tours created by yours truly: download Berlin Companion Audio-Walks App (free access code for all annual Substack blog supporters).You can also find me at:Bluesky: @berlincompanion.bsky.social Twitter: @kreuzbergedInstagram: The Berlin CompanionThreads: theberlincompanionAnd if you would like to become a regular subscriber to this show and help me spend more time digging in my vast archives, chasing new stories and turning these into shiny new episodes - support the podcast by buying me a coffee or by subscribing to Berlin Companion at Substack (both links below):Buy Me a Coffee (or a Beer)Berlin Companion at SubstackMusic for the show by ...
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REPEATED: DEATH AND RAILWAYS - THE CEMETERY AT POSTDAMER BAHNHOF
Send us a textAn old Yididish proverb says: "If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans". The author heard booming laughter from above and thus planning to launch the last episode in the series had to be postponed.In the meantime you can enjoy a repetition of one of my favourite stories from and around Potsdamer Bahnhof: the story of a cemetery that was the first Berlin place for many arrivals to see and the last (the very last) one for a few to set their very metaphorical foot on.I hope you will enjoy it!Support the showRead fascinating stories from Berlin's past and present, and listen to all the episodes from Season 1 and 2 of the podcast on Substack: theberlincompanion.com Enjoy Berlin audio-tours created by yours truly: download Berlin Companion Audio-Walks App (free access code for all annual Substack blog supporters).You can also find me at:Bluesky: @berlincompanion.bsky.social Twitter: @kreuzbergedInstagram: The Berlin CompanionThreads: theberlincompanionAnd if you would like to become a regular subscriber to this show and help me spend more time digging in my vast archives, chasing new stories and turning these into shiny new episodes - support the podcast by buying me a coffee or by subscribing to Berlin Companion at Substack (both links below):Buy Me a Coffee (or a Beer)Berlin Companion at SubstackMusic for the show by ...
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OF SPUDS AND GEMS: BERLIN'S PALACE MONBIJOU
Send us a textIn this episode of "Berlin Companion Podcast" we are travelling back in time to the second half of the 17th century to witness some royal shenanigans (including several weddings, an extramarital affair, a couple of deaths and a crowning) and follow the fate of a lovely royal palace, whose ghostly outline might or might not be still visible there on quiet moonlit Berlin nights... And whose gardens were the birthplace of Prussia's favourite veg.You will find Berlin's 1748 city plan (Plan de la ville et des fauxbourgs de Berlin) here - to locate Spandauer Tor and Spandauer Brücke look for St Marien Kirche und look right above it. Map via ZLB Digital.Support the showRead fascinating stories from Berlin's past and present, and listen to all the episodes from Season 1 and 2 of the podcast on Substack: theberlincompanion.com Enjoy Berlin audio-tours created by yours truly: download Berlin Companion Audio-Walks App (free access code for all annual Substack blog supporters).You can also find me at:Bluesky: @berlincompanion.bsky.social Twitter: @kreuzbergedInstagram: The Berlin CompanionThreads: theberlincompanionAnd if you would like to become a regular subscriber to this show and help me spend more time digging in my vast archives, chasing new stories and turning these into shiny new episodes - support the podcast by buying me a coffee or by subscribing to Berlin Companion at Substack (both links below):Buy Me a Coffee (or a Beer)Berlin Companion at SubstackMusic for the show by ...
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SMOG IN THE CITY: "DICKE LUFT" IN WEST BERLIN
Send us a textThose of us living in the city centre, close to industry sites or a very busy street junction know the smell only too well: fuel, burnt rubber, melting plastic and unspecified chemical stench that might or might not make your skin crawl (sometimes literally). Luckily for most, the days of potentially lethal air pollution in big cities like Berlin seem to be over.But in February 1987 West Berlin and West Germany were in the thick of it. Why this was not the case for the DDR is explained in this episode... You will also find out something about Thor and a very useful Berlin flower.Enjoy the episode! (Link to Berlin's page where you can control air quality in the city on per-hour basis: https://luftdaten.berlin.de/lqi)Support the showRead fascinating stories from Berlin's past and present, and listen to all the episodes from Season 1 and 2 of the podcast on Substack: theberlincompanion.com Enjoy Berlin audio-tours created by yours truly: download Berlin Companion Audio-Walks App (free access code for all annual Substack blog supporters).You can also find me at:Bluesky: @berlincompanion.bsky.social Twitter: @kreuzbergedInstagram: The Berlin CompanionThreads: theberlincompanionAnd if you would like to become a regular subscriber to this show and help me spend more time digging in my vast archives, chasing new stories and turning these into shiny new episodes - support the podcast by buying me a coffee or by subscribing to Berlin Companion at Substack (both links below):Buy Me a Coffee (or a Beer)Berlin Companion at SubstackMusic for the show by ...
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HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: BLACKOUT YEARS IN BERLIN
Send us a textAre you afraid of the dark? The answer is is most probably yes. Few people are comfortable not seeing where they are going, or what might be lurking ahead. An extreme form of that fear is known as noctophobia. When in the 1930s Nazi authorities introduced blackout regulations in Germany - strict orders forbidding using any sources of light that could potentially reveal the size or the position, or even individual locations in a city - three things were clear: that a war was coming, that crime and accidents in Berlin would soar, and that people had to learn how to live their daily lives in one of the largest cities in Europe without any outdoor illumination.In today's episode of the podcast it all begins in 1935.Support the showRead fascinating stories from Berlin's past and present, and listen to all the episodes from Season 1 and 2 of the podcast on Substack: theberlincompanion.com Enjoy Berlin audio-tours created by yours truly: download Berlin Companion Audio-Walks App (free access code for all annual Substack blog supporters).You can also find me at:Bluesky: @berlincompanion.bsky.social Twitter: @kreuzbergedInstagram: The Berlin CompanionThreads: theberlincompanionAnd if you would like to become a regular subscriber to this show and help me spend more time digging in my vast archives, chasing new stories and turning these into shiny new episodes - support the podcast by buying me a coffee or by subscribing to Berlin Companion at Substack (both links below):Buy Me a Coffee (or a Beer)Berlin Companion at SubstackMusic for the show by ...
Everything you never even knew you wanted to know about Berlin by the author Berlin history blog, theberlincompanion.com, Berlin Companion Audio Walks App and the Berlin Companion book series.
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