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February 2, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Berlin’s deadliest bench can be found in Hasenheide Park — take a seat if you dare!*
*available only while icy conditions last
*available only while icy conditions last
February 1, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Berlin’s deadliest bench can be found in Hasenheide Park — take a seat if you dare!*
*available only while icy conditions last
*available only while icy conditions last
The good old Oberbaumbrücke, always brightening up the skyline even in winter — and especially when carrying a bright yellow u bahn 🙌 🙏 #berlin
February 1, 2026 at 1:02 PM
The good old Oberbaumbrücke, always brightening up the skyline even in winter — and especially when carrying a bright yellow u bahn 🙌 🙏 #berlin
where’s the lie? 🙌
February 1, 2026 at 10:28 AM
where’s the lie? 🙌
try not to stand still too long!
February 1, 2026 at 8:25 AM
try not to stand still too long!
can anyone relate?
January 31, 2026 at 12:41 PM
can anyone relate?
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"In 1933, Hans Uhlmann, then a teacher and a member of the Communist Party, was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned on the grounds of "high treason”. It was during his 18 months in Tegel Prison that his artistic language was born."
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New on the website: www.slowtravelberlin.com/hans-uhlmann...
January 31, 2026 at 11:00 AM
"In 1933, Hans Uhlmann, then a teacher and a member of the Communist Party, was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned on the grounds of "high treason”. It was during his 18 months in Tegel Prison that his artistic language was born."
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New on the website: www.slowtravelberlin.com/hans-uhlmann...
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Pessoa, in a note describing his ideal:
“The sensibility of Mallarmé in the style of Vieira; to dream like Verlaine in the body of Horace; to be Homer by moonlight.”
(The Book of Disquiet, tr. M. J. Costa)
“The sensibility of Mallarmé in the style of Vieira; to dream like Verlaine in the body of Horace; to be Homer by moonlight.”
(The Book of Disquiet, tr. M. J. Costa)
January 30, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Pessoa, in a note describing his ideal:
“The sensibility of Mallarmé in the style of Vieira; to dream like Verlaine in the body of Horace; to be Homer by moonlight.”
(The Book of Disquiet, tr. M. J. Costa)
“The sensibility of Mallarmé in the style of Vieira; to dream like Verlaine in the body of Horace; to be Homer by moonlight.”
(The Book of Disquiet, tr. M. J. Costa)
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President Trump, your Melania movie has bombed
January 30, 2026 at 8:01 PM
President Trump, your Melania movie has bombed
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"A many-branching advancement into the unknown, untapped or unthought is the kind of expansion we can get behind. One that opens up possibility, exchange and interaction ..."
letter from the editors
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letter from the editors
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January 30, 2026 at 5:51 PM
"A many-branching advancement into the unknown, untapped or unthought is the kind of expansion we can get behind. One that opens up possibility, exchange and interaction ..."
letter from the editors
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letter from the editors
minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-di...
January 30, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Squats on Mainzer Straße, Friedrichshain, June 1990—a few months before they were cleared in the "Battle of Mainzer Straße".
(Friedrichshain's squat culture will form part of our forthcoming tour of the district—please get in touch for more details).
Photo: Renate Hildebrandt/CC
(Friedrichshain's squat culture will form part of our forthcoming tour of the district—please get in touch for more details).
Photo: Renate Hildebrandt/CC
January 30, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Squats on Mainzer Straße, Friedrichshain, June 1990—a few months before they were cleared in the "Battle of Mainzer Straße".
(Friedrichshain's squat culture will form part of our forthcoming tour of the district—please get in touch for more details).
Photo: Renate Hildebrandt/CC
(Friedrichshain's squat culture will form part of our forthcoming tour of the district—please get in touch for more details).
Photo: Renate Hildebrandt/CC
And the snow just keeps on coming 😯
January 30, 2026 at 12:08 PM
And the snow just keeps on coming 😯
Shout to Tegeler See & Tegeler Forst — a beautiful area in northwest Berlin that combines lovely lake views with forest trails. As well as the oldest tree in Berlin (the 900-year-old “Dicke Marie”) nostalgic Brits can admire the red telephone box on the Greenwichpromenade 😃🇬🇧
January 30, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Shout to Tegeler See & Tegeler Forst — a beautiful area in northwest Berlin that combines lovely lake views with forest trails. As well as the oldest tree in Berlin (the 900-year-old “Dicke Marie”) nostalgic Brits can admire the red telephone box on the Greenwichpromenade 😃🇬🇧
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“When I would write a romantic comedy along the Lubitschian line, if I got stopped in the middle of a scene, I’d think, How would Lubitsch do it?” Billy Wilder on Ernst Lubitsch, born #OTD in 1892
January 29, 2026 at 9:22 PM
“When I would write a romantic comedy along the Lubitschian line, if I got stopped in the middle of a scene, I’d think, How would Lubitsch do it?” Billy Wilder on Ernst Lubitsch, born #OTD in 1892
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“Early on, I learned to disguise myself in words, which really were clouds. The gift of perceiving similarities is, in fact, nothing but a weak remnant of the old compulsion to become similar and to behave mimetically. In me, this compulsion acted through words.”
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin
“I was distorted by similarity to all that surrounded me. Like a mollusk in its shell, I had my abode in the nineteenth century, which now lies hollow before me like an empty shell. I hold it to my ear. What do I hear?”
— Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900
— Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900
January 29, 2026 at 10:21 PM
“Early on, I learned to disguise myself in words, which really were clouds. The gift of perceiving similarities is, in fact, nothing but a weak remnant of the old compulsion to become similar and to behave mimetically. In me, this compulsion acted through words.”
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin
A visual journey through Berlin’s U6 line, which runs almost 20km north to south, connecting Alt-Tegel and Alt-Mariendorf. Operating since 1923, it was historically significant for its connection to Tempelhof airport…
Photos by Kate Seabrook.
More: www.slowtravelberlin.com/riding-the-u6/
Photos by Kate Seabrook.
More: www.slowtravelberlin.com/riding-the-u6/
Riding Berlin’s U6: A Visual Journey
Photographer Kate Seabrook documents every station in Berlin’s U-Bahn system… on Slow Travel Berlin
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January 29, 2026 at 7:43 PM
A visual journey through Berlin’s U6 line, which runs almost 20km north to south, connecting Alt-Tegel and Alt-Mariendorf. Operating since 1923, it was historically significant for its connection to Tempelhof airport…
Photos by Kate Seabrook.
More: www.slowtravelberlin.com/riding-the-u6/
Photos by Kate Seabrook.
More: www.slowtravelberlin.com/riding-the-u6/
The Titania-Palast opened in 1928 and served as a postwar venue for the Berlin Philharmonic’s, the founding of the Free University, and the initial Berlinale. Designed in New Objectivity style, it has a 30-meter Art Deco light tower.
Images: 1928Max Missmann - 2012/Wikipedia.
Images: 1928Max Missmann - 2012/Wikipedia.
January 29, 2026 at 4:37 PM
The Titania-Palast opened in 1928 and served as a postwar venue for the Berlin Philharmonic’s, the founding of the Free University, and the initial Berlinale. Designed in New Objectivity style, it has a 30-meter Art Deco light tower.
Images: 1928Max Missmann - 2012/Wikipedia.
Images: 1928Max Missmann - 2012/Wikipedia.
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Reposted by www.slowtravelberlin.com
When asked about the potential dangers of being funny, he allegedly said: “At least twice a day the most dignified human being is ridiculous.” Born OTD in #Berlin, one of the most important film directors in the history of the cinema: Ernst Lubitsch.
THAT LUBITSCH TOUCH
Today in Berlin: 29 January, 1892
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January 29, 2026 at 9:14 AM
When asked about the potential dangers of being funny, he allegedly said: “At least twice a day the most dignified human being is ridiculous.” Born OTD in #Berlin, one of the most important film directors in the history of the cinema: Ernst Lubitsch.
January 29, 2026 at 9:20 AM