Berlin Perspectives - Private Tours In and Around Berlin

27/12/2020

2020 is a year for uplifting stories. Here is one of them:

Posted by Carlos This is an unusually personal blog. In addition to the millions who have succumbed to this deadly virus, the world over has been struggling with COVID-19 in a multitude of ways...

26/11/2020

There are some cool playgrounds and there are some awful, awful playgrounds...

Posted by Torben Traveling with children is hard work. Everything takes longer, everything is more stressful. And that's before you figure out what you're going to do with them when you get there....

31/08/2020

Thanks, perhaps, to Tom Cruise, most of us know who Stauffenberg was, but Julius Leber? And for whom should we -- and in particular the German military -- be naming stuff?

Posted by Torben

29/05/2020

Our newest blog about the thought-provoking Spiegelwand memorial in the district of Steglitz

Posted by Carlos Foreign visitors on our tours of Berlin often praise Germany for commemorating the victims of National Socialism. While the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (the Holocaust...

11/05/2020

There are certainly many much more important things to say about the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, but in case you ever wondered whether the war really ended on May 8th...

Posted by Torben

05/05/2020

Over the last six to seven weeks (or has it been longer?), I have made a point of isolating myself physically as well as I can. The challenges one faces in this ongoing process are by now almost...

01/05/2020

We want to try our hand at some shorter posts giving insight into Berlin's history. We'll aim for brevity and try to relate the contributions to places and sites you can visit. Here's some Berlin history before Berlin actually existed...

Posted by Torben

27/04/2020

Some thoughts on how and why German political culture is a little different. (And it's not all about Corona, promise.)

Posted by Torben

20/03/2020

Dear All,

We hope everyone stays safe in these difficult times in which we have to stick together. Our health and solidarity come before anything else.

In order to help "flatten the curve", we are doing our best to practice social distancing and to encourage others to do the same.

Once we have overcome this pandemic and it is safe to do so, we would love to show you Berlin.

In the meantime, we will keep you posted with our blog posts.

Stay safe and healthy,

Torben and Carlos

28/11/2018

With the season winding down, we again have a little time to devote to our blog. Halloween has passed, but Berlin's cemeteries remain... I was about to write "alive," but that's not quite right. At any rate, there are lots of dead people in Berlin, some of them quite famous!

Posted by Torben

14/01/2018

Here's our newest blogpost. It's about a 19th century prison break, no less, very exciting!

Posted by Torben In August of 1850, a 21 year old political fugitive arrived in Berlin and moved into an apartment not far from Gendarmenmarkt in the center of town. He was carrying false papers...

08/11/2017

Posted by Carlos ‘The 9th of November represents the bright and simultaneously the dark sides of German history’, Berlin’s Governing Mayor Michael Müller declared a year ago. He was referring...