Berlin recommendations

So here I am at the Berlinale and already fed up with the festival's ticketing/accreditation politics. I feel bad about crawling behind my laptop. As I remember seeing some valuable recommendations in a London thread a while ago, I figured asking watmm what I should see in Berlin couldn't hurt.

Shopping

-Record stores - braindance stuff and/or soundtracks

-weird kitsch second-hand/retro items

-trashy photography stuff (polaroid, old film)

Culture

-anything; movies, music, exhibitions, restaurants

Vielen dank

Kreuzberg!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreuzberg

I stumbled upon some great cafés there and the atmosphere there is quite special

Fantastic topic! I'm going to visit a friend that lives in Kreuzberg this weekend. We are going to Watergate for Four Tet/Lindstrøm++ on friday, Hertha-Dortmund and Berghain on saturday, and some films at the Berlinale on Sunday. Action-packed weekend.

What I want is a tip for a good Turkish restaurant and a nice place to buy records.

Berghain & Hardwax

  On 2/14/2012 at 1:51 PM, Solo Strike said:

Berghain

only if you're white.

  On 2/14/2012 at 9:39 AM, Gretsky 3D said:

 

Culture

-anything; movies, music, exhibitions, restaurants

 

When I was there I went to the berlin film museum in potsdamer platz. Worth a trip.

We also rented bikes. Great way to see the city.

Cool town.

When I went it was 2003-2004 and there were all sorts of artist squat galleries along the northern stretch of the mitte. I wonder of those are still there. The one we went to was covered with tons of rad grafitti and was near the cemetary with Brecht's grave.

  On 2/14/2012 at 6:06 PM, keltoi said:

  On 2/14/2012 at 1:51 PM, Solo Strike said:

Berghain

 

only if you're white.

not in the slightest

Various Vegetables @ Naherholung Sternchen

Sowjetisches ehrendenkmal in treptower park is pretty cool.

  On 2/14/2012 at 10:58 PM, dese manz hatin said:

  On 2/14/2012 at 6:06 PM, keltoi said:

  On 2/14/2012 at 1:51 PM, Solo Strike said:

Berghain

 

only if you're white.

not in the slightest

Yeah, what a stupid thing to say. Why do you think Berghain is racist?

There are several threads about this already...

Exhibitions: Hamburger Bahnhof and Berlinische Gallerie (contemporary stuff)

Retro second-hand stuff (overpriced) you will find almost everywhere. Kreuzberg is a good place to start.

But be careful: The Berlin residents don't like tourist hipsters

  On 2/16/2012 at 11:31 AM, tokn said:

  On 2/14/2012 at 10:58 PM, dese manz hatin said:

  On 2/14/2012 at 6:06 PM, keltoi said:

  On 2/14/2012 at 1:51 PM, Solo Strike said:

Berghain

 

only if you're white.

not in the slightest

 

Yeah, what a stupid thing to say. Why do you think Berghain is racist?

 

There are several threads about this already...

 

Exhibitions: Hamburger Bahnhof and Berlinische Gallerie (contemporary stuff)

Retro second-hand stuff (overpriced) you will find almost everywhere. Kreuzberg is a good place to start.

 

But be careful: The Berlin residents don't like tourist hipsters

first hand experience i've mentioned before in another berlin thread. i was told by a barman that there was no chance my asian friend would get in cos of his race and he was right.

Have met/seen asians in the Berghain on many occasions.

yeah same.... plus lots of black guys, turkish guys (not a given in germany) and so on. i really really don't think they refused him because of his race; they're just incredibly picky and unpredictable.

glad to hear it. it was the reason we were given at the time. i'm just saying what happened.

shrugs.

I recommend going to see th'idiot & karsten pflum, vodor L zeck, vertical 67, eutechnik & others @ various vegetables, naherholung sternchen on saturday