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Tina's Tours Berlin

I fell in love with Berlin and will help you to fall in love with it, too!

I give various historical and cultural tours for English speaking guests in Berlin and Sachsenhausen.

05/06/2026

The Berlin Wall was much more than a single wall. Over a decade, East Germany developed it into a fortress, nearly impossible to flee across at ground level.

"The Wall" was actually two walls with a "death strip" in between, of booby-trapped no-man's-land, guarded by East German border guards with the instructions that anyone entering it was to be arrested or "destroyed".

There are 3 stretches of original Berlin Wall remaining in Berlin:
1) on Niederkirchnerstraße in the city centre, one block down from Checkpoint Charlie and next to the Topography of Terror Museum (pictured)
2) on Bernauer Straße at the Berlin Wall Memorial, which is a great spot to visit for anyone really interested in the history of the Wall. There are 1.4kms of outdoor exhibitions plus 2 indoor documentation centres, all free to visit. From one of the documentation centres you can climb a tower to look down over a replicated area of Death Strip.
3) the famous, painted, East Side Gallery, home to the iconic Brother's Kiss mural between Brezhnev and Honecker. This is 1.3kms, free to visit, open 24/7 and along the river between the hip Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg districts. Make sure that you visit it with good daylight so that you can enjoy the murals properly.

03/06/2026

This bronze, expressive beauty is called "Die Erde" or "The Earth".

It was created in 1974 by Ingeborg Hunzinger, one of Berlin's most influential sculptors.

Inge's life story traced Germany's turbulent 20th century story:

She was born in Berlin in 1915, became a communist and studied art in Charlottenburg, until she was banned from studying or creating by the N***s due to having a Jewish mother.

She fled the N**i regime and survived, but lost the father of her children in the final days of the Second World War. Inge returned to Berlin with their children.

She studied and then taught art at Weißensee in East Berlin and her studio was a hub for dissidents including Wolf Biermann and Robert Havemann.

Inge was watched by the Stasi (the East German secret police) but her high profile as an artist and her anti-fascist credentials kept her from becoming a target of state repression.

Inge passed away in 2009 at the age of 94. She had lived for over 50 years in Rahnsdorf in the Berlin district of Treptower-Köpenick.

Today you can see this statue in Monbijou Park, which is in Mitte, just across the Spree from Museum Island. Before finding its home here, it stood in several prominent Berlin locations, including the Marx-Engels-Platz.

Inge also created the Block of Women memorial on Rosenstraße, which commemorates the Women's Protest in 1943 against N**i deportations of their Jewish husbands and family. I regularly visit this moving memorial with my guests.

02/06/2026

Thanks a million to for having me on your trip to Berlin!

We did two tours together: Berlin Wall Memorial and street art, including the East Side Gallery.

Travel safe and good luck with the studies! ✈️🌎👨‍🎓❤️

31/05/2026

Rory MacLean is a British-Canadian historian and writer.

Check out his book "Berlin: Imagine a City".

On my "want to read" list is also his book called "Stalin's Nose" about a journey from Berlin to Moscow after the Cold War.

31/05/2026

This hole-in-the-wall Italian delicatessen-come-restaurant caught my eye as I was walking North from Rosa Luxemburg Platz.

The plastic, red and white tablecloths, messily scribbled blackboard menu and dreamy deli spread transported me straight back to my last Italian vacation.

I went there for dinner the same night and it didn't disappoint.

The fresh pasta was delicious, the truffle sauce was mouth-watering and the atmosphere was relaxed, cosy and unpretentious.

It's conveniently located in North-Mitte between Rosa Luxemburg Platz and Sendefelderplatz.

Remember: I only post food places if I truly loved them!

Can recommend: Pastabar Gianni Gillone

Thanks a million to the wonderful friend who came with me ♥️♥️😘😘

29/05/2026

How good is this placement by El Bocho?!

The anonymous artist calls these mysterious women “Citizens”.

His other famous character is “Little Lucy” who is a super cute girl who comes up with sadistic ways to kill her cat. Don’t worry- the cat definitely has more than 9 lives!

El Bocho is originally from Frankfurt but based in Berlin.

He has been adding his paste-ups (posters) to the streets for nearly 30 years.

Thanks for the colour which you add to the streets, 🙏🙏🙏

27/05/2026

🌲The N**i regime planned to gradually replace Christian Christmas with a neo-Pagan N**i cult.

⛪N**i propaganda tried to co-opt Christmas rituals to redirect German worship toward “Germanic” nature, a mythical Germanic past and Hi**er as savior.

❄️From 1935, the nation was expected to celebrate the Winter Solstice rather than Christmas and members of the SS (the N***s’ radical political soldiers) were only to celebrate “Yule”.

🤮Swastika cookie cutters were produced.

🎅Saint Nicholas was replaced by Odin, the Norse god.

🎶The lyrics of carols were changed e.g. to remove references to Jesus.

✨The traditional star atop the Christmas tree was particularly incompatible with the N***s' hatred. A 5-pointed star was associated with the Soviets and a 6-pointed star with Jews. Trees were instead topped with a sw****ka, SS runes or Odin’s Sun Wheel.

💪Despite state efforts to co-opt the ritual, traditional Christmas celebrations endured in many German households.

👀I saw this box of decorations on a nerdy history trip to the Wolf’s Lair in Northeastern Poland. The Wolf’s Lair was Hi**er’s primary military headquarters for the Eastern Front in World War Two. The dictator spent 800 days here over 1941-1944.

26/05/2026

The memorial called “Der verlassene Raum” or “The Abandoned Room” is located in Koppenplatz in the Mitte (city centre) district of Berlin.

The memorial was initiated by East Germany on the 50th anniversary of the November Program of 1938, which the N***s called “Crystal Night”.

The memorial was not inaugurated until 1966.

The sculptor was Karl Biedermann and the landscape artist Eva Butzmann.

It is ringed by a poem by Nelly Sachs.

Nelly was born in Berlin in 1891 into a middle-class Jewish family. She studied art and dance.

She and her mother fled the N**i persecution to Sweden.
Their extended family was murdered.

Nelly’s volumes of poetry won her the Nobel Prize for literature.

The poem selected for the memorial is deeply apt. It is from "In the Dwellings of Death”, published in 1947:
"...O the dwellings of death, / Invitingly prepared / For the host of the house, who was otherwise a guest – / O you fingers, / laying the threshold, / like a knife between life and death – / O you chimneys, / O you fingers / And Israel's body, / in smoke through the air!”

It would be a beautiful thing for humanity to one day stop tearing people from their homes.

25/05/2026

Hansaviertel (Hansa Quarter) in Berlin was completed in 1957 as a lived-in exhibition of modern architecture.

It was conceived in competition with East Berlin's mass housing project on Stalinallee. Hansaviertel was West Berlin stating that anything the communists could do, the capitalists could do better.... And with celebrities!

The quarter showcased modern mass housing designed by world renowned celebrity architects, including Alvar Aalto, Walter Gropius, Arne Jacobsen and Max Taut.

It also hosts a shopping complex, a library, a gallery and a Ubahn Station complete with a mosaic by Fritz Winter, a German abstract artist who had been an apprentice at the famous Bauhaus School of Art, Architecture and Design.

Pictures 1-3 show my personal favourite building in the quarter, designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. I find the aesthetics of the V-shaped supports and the external elevator shaft so interesting to look at!

Which building is your favourite?

P.S. PM me to book a tour of some of Berlin's most interesting sites!

22/05/2026

Looking for a tour guide in Berlin?

I've been living here since 2017 and working as a professional guide since 2018.

I describe myself as professionally obsessed with Berlin! I spend most of my time reading about the city, studying its history, art, politics and personalities, plus immersing in its epic food and cultural scenes.

Let me show you why Berlin is so special ♥️

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