Berlin never is. It always will be.
- Common Proverb
Vibrant, electric, provincial, metropolitan, slow, fast, enlighted, stubborn, conservative, progressive, left, middle, center, crazy, lovely, aggressive, dirty, clean, naughty, kind, brilliant, stupid, scientific, you name it. Call her what you will, but one thing for sure she is not: boring. And she is a lady. Maybe not the one you meet on a golf course, more likely in a bar or on a bus stop on her way to work.
“Berlin, your face is freckled/ and your mouth is way too big” is the key line in one famous anthem to the city. Most people fall in love with her, and mostly, they don’t know why. Maybe one of my tours can introduce you to her. See for yourself.
Liberty, Equality, Peace: A peoples history of Berlin(4 h)
From the early days of Berlin to the fall of the Wall, Berliners took fate into their own hands. Three revolutions, countless strikes and massive demonstrations gave the authoritarian rulers a hard time. This tour tells you the story of unwilling traders, anti- aristocratic scientists, mutineer sailors and east german punk kids, who made the city what it is: A gigantic monument of resilience and resistance against various forms of oppression. Designed along the major tourist attractions, this city walk is giving you an entirely new view on the citys history.
Alexanderplatz- Schloßfreiheit- Neue Wache- Gendarmenmarkt- Friedrichstraße/ ecke Tauben- Niederkirchner Str. ( Topographie und Mauerrest)- Finanzministerium- Potsdamer Platz- Tiergarten- Reichstag- Regierungsviertel (Kanzleramt- Paul Löbe/ Marie Elisabeth Lüders Haus)- Charite
Berlin under the swastika (4 h)
The Nazi dictatorship began in 1933 and ended 1945 with the surrender of the german army in Berlin. The allies found a city in smoking ruins, 80 % of the inner ring was destroyed. In those 12 years the vibrant, multireligious and progressive people of Berlin were persecuted, driven from their homes and murdered. But not undisputed, in no other german city the resistance against Mr. Hitlers aryan madness was as strong as here. Berliners did not elect the Nazis in majority, so the hatred of the dictatorship was also targeting Berlin as a whole.
The tour includes sites as Jüdisches Altenheim/ Friedhof- Koppenplatz- jüdisches Waisenhaus- New Synagoge- Anhalter Bahnhof- Europahaus- Topography of terror- Air Ministry- Denkzeichen Georg Elser- Bunker Neue Reichskanzlei- Memorial to the murdered jews of europe- Denkmal für die ermordeten Sinti und Roma- sowjetisches Ehrenmal- Reichstag
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial ( 6h)
The concentration camp outside of Berlin, in the town of Oranienburg, was crucial to the Nazis effort to persecute, terrorize and murder members of the political opposition and religious and ethnic minorities from all over Europe. The Camp was built as a model camp in 1936 and was liberated by the soviet army in 1945. The Tour includes transfer via public transportation to the memorial.
The Wall: A tale of two Berlins (4 h)
As a result of the second world war Berlin was divided up amongst the four allies. 12 Years after two german states were proclaimed in 1949, the east german government “sealed off” West- Berlin in August 1961. How did it come to the construction of the wall? How was life in both cities? This tour is offering you answers explaining the situation during the Cold War.
Berlin wall memorial- Nordbahnhof- Brandenburg Gate- Russian embassy- American consulate - Palace of Tears- Alexanderplatz
Classic Berlin (4 - 5 h)
A fine walking tour for seeing all the major attractions. Covering the grounds of 800 years of the citys history, you’ll get an overview of the main events that made Berlin unique- from the rule of prussian kings over two dictatorships in the 20th century to the nowadays New Berlin.
The Tour includes Alexanderplatz- Museum Island- Lustgarten- Neue Wache- Bebelplatz- Gendarmenmarkt- Checkpoint Charlie- Niederkirchnerstr.- Finanzministerium- Hitlers Bunker Neue Reichskanzlei- Holocaust Memorial- Reichstag- Brandenburg Gate
Medieval Berlin (2 h)
Hard to imagine how this looked like, because its almost gone completely. But there are traces of the city founded by monks, fishermen and traders, and they can be discovered around TV Tower. A short walk through an imaginary landscape that existed in the late middle ages.
Alexanderplatz- Marienkirche (außen)- Marienkirche (Totentanz)- Rotes Rathaus- Nikolaiviertel- Grunerstr./ Molkenmarkt- Stadtmauerrest- Graues Kloster
City- West (2,5 h)
All of my tours take place in former East- Berlin, and thats a little unfair towards the old west. The city in the west is still larger, a commercial center and lots of fun to walk around in. What later would become West- Berlin was attached to the city in 1918 and developed into the bulwark of the west during the cold war.
Bhf. Zoologischer Garten- TU- Savignyplatz- Kurfürstendamm- Kranzlereck- Gedächtniskirche- Europacenter- KaDeWe
Licenses and Museum Tours
DIN EU- License Tour Guide Berlin
Licensed Guide Memorial and Museum former concentration camp Sachsenhausen
German Resistance Memorial, Stauffenbergstraße, Berlin
Berlin Wall Memorial, Bernauer Straße, Berlin