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58 CITY TOURS
Bowie Walk, berlin@feelinggloomy.com, www.
feelinggloomy.com. The world-famous British rock artist
David Bowie had nearly succumbed to fame, drugs and
paranoia when he moved to Berlin in 1976. He recovered well,
partied hard with Iggy Pop and made three albums before his
departure in 1980, including the epic Heroes. Every month
the ‚Feeling Gloomy‘ collective conducts a fun little two-hour
walking tour past Bowies house in Schoeneberg and the
studios where he recorded, highlighting the Berlin adventures
of the White Duke. Q Tickets €5.
Brewer‘s Berlin F-3, MS/U Friedrichstraße, tel. +49
177 388 15 37, www.brewersberlintours.com. The 6-hour
Best of Berlin (10:30, €15/12) and the 3-hour Express (13:00,
tip only) tours are great introductions to the city. Potsdam tours
take place on Wed and Sat (09:20, €15/12). The meeting
point for all tours is the Bandy Brooks ice cream shop near
Friedrichstraße station; no bookings are required.
Finding Berlin Tours I-4, Revaler Straße 99,
Friedrichshain, tel. +49 176 99 33 39 13, info@
findingberlin-tours.com, www.findingberlin-tours.com.
Remarkable 3-4 hour tours on foot or using stylish classic
racing bikes. Themes include avant-garde and street art
scenes, and unique tours of Turkish and Vietnamese Berlin
whereby locals tell you about their lives and neighbourhoods.
Q Tickets €18-25.
InBerlin Tours, tel. +49 174 157 48 36, info@inberlin.
de, www.inberlin.de. Specialised walking tours for small
groups: along the Wall in Mitte or Treptow, or through the
Kreuzberg, Prenzlauer Berg, or Friedrichshain districts. Tours
take place at fixed times and days, or made to suit your
Berlin Underworlds
© Berliner Unterwelten e.V/Frieder Salm
The Berlin Underworlds Association allows you to
experience Berlin´s history from an unusual perspective,
through its underground installations dating back to the
Cold War, World War II, or earlier. Though predominantly
in the spaces below Berlin´s Gesundbrunnen station,
tours are also offered in several other complexes that are
usually not accessible to the public. With prior notification,
tours can be arranged for groups of minimum 20 people
at other times.
The following tours are held in English; they also take place
in German and Spanish at other times, and various tours
are held in Dutch, French, Italian and Danish.
Tour 1: Dark Worlds – A bunker from the Nazi era. Mar-
Nov Mon 11:00 and 13:00, Wed-Sun 11:00; Dec-Feb Mon
11:00 and 13:00, Thu-Sun 11:00.
needs; reservations are always required. Q Tickets €10-16.
Insider Tours G-3, MS Hackescher Markt, tel. +49 30 692
31 49, www.insidertour.com. Insider‘s enthusiastic guides go
a long way to make you feel like an insider on the daily 4-hour
tours; it starts from AMT Coffee at Hackescher Markt (10:30
and 15:00, €12/10). Other tours are the Wall, Third Reich,
Sachsenhausen, Potsdam, Jewish Berlin and a pub crawl.
Isherwood‘s Neighbourhood Tour D-4/5,
MU Nollendorfplatz, tel. +49 151 25 22 03 42,
brendan@10777tours.com, www.cabaret-berlin.com. In the
1920s Berlin was a veritable ‚Sodom on the Spree‘ with 85,000
lesbians, open prostitution and an outrageous club and revue
theatre scene. The young British writer Christopher Isherwood
lived here from 1929 to 1933, weaving his experiences in Goodbye
To Berlin (of Cabaret fame). Expat Brendan Nash conducts
an excellent one-hour tour through Isherwood‘s Berlin around
Nollendorfplatz, spiced up with quotes and referenses to notorious
1920s party-goers like Anita Berber and Marlene Dietrich. Q Tours
Sat at 11:00, and on demand. Book ahead. Tickets €10.
New Berlin Tours F-3, Pariser Platz, Mitte, MS/U
Brandenburger Tor, tel. +49 30 51 05 00 30, www.
newberlintours.com. New Berlin pioneered the free 3,5-hour
city centre tours that are popular with young visitors who are as
interested in each other as in the sights along the route (daily
11:00 and 13:00 from the Brandenburger Tor Starbucks). They
additionally offer various themed tours and pub crawls (€12).
Original Berlin Walks, tel. +49 30 301 91 94, www.
berlinwalks.de. The daily 3,5-hour Discover Berlin tour
starts at the Weihenstephaner restaurant on Hackescher
Markt at 10.30 and 14:00. Check online for themed tours
like Third Reich, Cold War, Queer Berlin, Jewish Berlin
and Potsdam. Q Tickets €12/10.
Tour 2: From Flak Towers to Mountains of Debris. Enter
a devastated albeit fascinating underground world. Apr
1 - Oct 31, Thu-Sun 16:00.
Tour 3: Subways, Bunkers, Cold War – a political history
of Berlin from an unusual perspective.
Mar-Nov Tues 11:00 and 13:00, Wed-Sun 13:00; Dec-Feb
Thu-Sun 13:00.
Tour M – Breaching the Berlin Wall: Subterranean escapes
from East to West Berlin. Mar-Nov, Sun 10:30.
For further information see www.berliner-unterwelten.de.
Tickets €10/8, Tour M €13/10 (no reservation required);
the meeting point is at the southern entrance of the
Gesundbrunnen U-Bahn station at Brunnenstraße 105,
tel. +49 30 49 91 05 17.
© Berliner Unterwelten e.V/Stefan Gier
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Accountants
Ernst & Young Französische Straße 48, Mitte, MU
Französiche Straße, tel. +49 30 25 47 10, www.ey.com.
KPMG Klingelhöferstraße 18, Tiergarten, MU
Nollendorfplatz, tel. +49 30 206 80, www.kpmg.de.
Nörr Stiefenhofer Lutz Charlottenstraße 57, Mitte,
MU Französiche Straße, tel. +49 30 20 94 20 00,
www.noerr.de.
PricewaterhouseCoopers Leise-Meitner-Straße 1,
Charlottenburg, MU Mierendorffplatz, tel. +49 30 263
60, www.pwc.com.
Business connections
American Chamber of Commerce Charlottenstraße
42, Mitte, MS/U Friedrichstraße, tel. +49 30 28 87 89
21, www.amcham.de.
Deutsche Industrie-und Handelskammer
(Chamber of Commerce) Breite Straße 29, Mitte,
MU Märkisches Museum, tel. +49 30 20 30 80, www.
dihk.de.
Dentists
Dr. Claudia Krater Konstanzer Straße 56, Wilmersdorf,
MU Konstanzer Straße, tel. +49 30 885 20 00.
Dr. Wolf-Ulrich Klotz Bayreuther Straße 8, Schöneberg,
MU Wittenbergplatz, tel. +49 30 213 10 10.
Doctors
Dr. Alexandra Heiser Kurfürstendamm 139, Charlottenburg,
MU Adenauerplatz, tel. +49 30 89 54 07 50.
Dr. Karin Wrobel Schönhauser Allee 126 A, Prenzlauer
Berg, MS/U Schönhauser Allee, tel. +49 30 448 57 67.
Dr. med. Michael Oppel Derfflingerstraße 14,
Tiergarten, MU Kurfürstenstraße, tel. +49 30 44 72 81
28, fax +49 30 44 72 81 29, oppel@integrative-medizin.
com, www.integrative-medizin.com.
Embassies
Australia G-3, Wallstraße 76-79, Mitte, MU Märkisches
Museum, tel. +49 30 880 08 80, www.australianembassy.de.
France F-3, Pariser Platz 5, Mitte, MS/U Brandenburger
Tor, tel. +49 30 590 03 90 00, www.botschaftfrankreich.de.
Ireland F-3, Friedrichstraße 200, Mitte, MU Stadtmitte,
tel. +49 30 22 07 20, www.botschaft-irland.de.
New Zealand F-3, Friedrichstraße 60, Mitte, MU
Stadtmitte, tel. +49 30 206 21 10, www.nzembassy.com.
United Kingdom F-3, Wilhelmstraße 70-71, Mitte,
MU Französische Straße, tel. +49 30 20 45 70, www.
britischebotschaft.de.
Art galleries in Berlin
The low cost of living draws thousands of artists to
Berlin, but low rent is also how their gallerists survive,
as there are few buyers in Berlin. Important galleries
remain out west in Charlottenburg, such as on
Mommsenstraße, though a new node of modern art
galleries is currently developing along Potsdamer
Straße. In Mitte, contemporary galleries are peppered
throughout the Scheunenviertel area, particularly along
Auguststraße and Gipsstraße.
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DIRECTORY
Emergency numbers
Emergencies, ambulance, fire tel. +49 30 112;
Emergency doctor service tel. +49 30 31 00 31;
Police tel. +49 30 110;
Non-urgent police matters tel. +49 30 46 64 46 64.
USA F-3, Pariser Platz 2, Mitte, MS/U Brandenburger
Tor, tel. +49 30 830 50, www.usembassy.de. American
Citizen Services: tel. 832 92 33.
Hospitals
Benjamin Franklin Clinical Centre Klingsorstraße,
Steglitz, MS/U Rathaus Steglitz, tel. +49 30 84 45 30
15, www.medizin.fu-berlin.de.
Charité Universitätsklinikum F-3, Schumannstraße
20-21, Mitte, MU Oranienburger Tor, tel. +49 30 45
050, www.charite.de.
Interpreters & Translators
Alphabeta Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße 88, Charlottenburg,
MU Richard-Wagner-Platz, tel. +49 30 34 70 79 52,
www.alphabeta-uebersetzungen.com.
A-Translation Gutschmidtstraße 12a, Neukölln,
MU Britz Süd, tel. +49 30 602 12 04, www.atranslation.de.
Zappmedia Prinzregentenstraße 40, Wilmersdorf,
MS/U Bundesplatz, tel. +49 30 800-9999277, www.
zappmedia.de.
Language schools
Berlitz Mitte F-3, Friedrichstraße 95, Mitte, MS/U
Friedrichstraße, tel. +49 30 204 21 24, www.berlitz.
de/de/berlin_mitte.
Deutsch Für Dich Niemetzstraße 24 (Zátopek Bar),
Neukölln, MS Sonnenallee, deutschfuerdichberlin@
gmail.com. Budget German classes: simply drop by, follow
a lesson suited to your level, and pay what you can afford
at the end.
GLS G-2, Kastanienallee 82, Prenzlauer Berg, MU
Eberswalder Straße, tel. +49 30 78 00 89 12. Courses
in German and many other languages in Prenzlauer Berg.
Inlingua F-2, Kronenstraße 55-58, Mitte, MU
Stadtmitte, tel. +49 30 88 47 11 90, www.inlingua.de.
Sprachsalon Weichselstraße 38, Kreuzberg, MU
Rathaus Neukölln, tel. +49 30 62 73 29 11, www.
sprachsalon-berlin.de. German and foreign language
courses in a relaxed atmosphere.
Moving to Berlin
The following companies can help with every aspect of
relocation, including moval, permits, acommodation,
language courses and getting to know the local
community.
ARRIVA Relocation, tel. +49 30 32 77 43 11, www.
arriva.de.
Enter Berlin, tel. +49 30 88 92 02 40, www.enterberlin.com.
First Relocating, tel. +49 30 826 14 51, www.firstrelocating.de.
December 2012 - January 2013
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