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I (heart) Berlin and Berlin’s epicenter is Alexanderplatz. It’s one of the city’s biggest transport hubs and though the main platz in front of the train station is often filled with festivals, carnivals and daily events, there are lots more things to see. Alexanderplatz is a great place to just wander around and get lost. …

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One of my favorite photography galleries in Berlin is the C/O gallery. While they’ve hosted interesting photography exhibits in the past, one of my favorite reasons for visiting the photo gallery is the building itself. The C/O gallery is currently housed in the old Royal Post Office (Postfuhramt) building. The building, on a prominent corner …

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well hey, a blogpost— Went to see a Shakespeare play this weekend with some friends—Romeo und Julia. Besides briefly running into some sort of outdoor Shakespeare production at Görlitzer Park last summer, I haven’t seen any theater production in years. And though this one was nice and all…it was in German. Shakespeare in German seemed …

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In my continued quest to find inspiration, yesterday I visited the Hamburger Bahnhof museum. The museum (in an old train station) exhibits mostly contemporary art but I hadn’t yet visited despite living in Berlin for who knows how long…. I was most interested in the temporary exhibit featuring work by the Japanese composer & visual …

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Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial Just outside Berlin is the Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial. Under Nazi Germany, the concentration camp was used first as a work camp for political prisoners until eventually it was expanded and enlarged to also include facilities for mass murder. After WWII, Sachsenhausen was briefly used by the Soviets to house Nazi …

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