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My Berlin: 30 tracks for the German capital

By HL fotoeins on 22 Oct 2018

Above/featured: Siegessäule & Grosse Stern, at night – 13 Nov 2012 (HL).

I compiled a list of songs accompanying my travel, a soundtrack that’s full of meaning and memories. This is another set, a listing of tracks I associate with Germany’s capital city. Music is always about personal selection, and every track fires a specific memory of time and place within Berlin. For example, watching “Lola rennt” (Run Lola Run) in a movie theatre in Toronto in the fall of 1998 planted the seeds for a move to Germany three years later. My first visit to Berlin soon after marked the beginning of a deep love affair with the “grand lady of BAER’leen.”

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Year	Song	Artist	Album/Project
1904	Berliner Luft	by Paul Lincke	—
1954	Ich hab’ noch einen Koffer in Berlin	Marlene Dietrich	—
1987	First We Take Manhattan	Jennifer Warnes (Leonard Cohen cover)	Famous Blue Raincoat
1991	Zoo Station	U2	Achtung Baby
1993	Stay (Faraway, So Close!)	U2	Zooropa
1998	Wish (feat. Thomas D.)	Franka Potente	“Run Lola Run” OST
2001	Stadtkind	Ellen Allien	Stadtkind
2001	Dickes B	Seeed	New Dubby Conquerors
2007	Kreuzberg	Bloc Party	A Weekend in the City
2008	Train	Paul Kalkbrenner	“Berlin Calling” OST
2008	Schwarz zu Blau	Peter Fox	Stadtaffe
	Fieber
2009	U-Bahn (feat. Axel Bosse)	Oliver Koletzki	Grossstadtmärchen
	Warschauer Strasse (feat. Fran)
	These Habits (feat. Pyur)
2011	Berlin (feat. Miss Platnum)	Modeselektor	Monkeytown
2011	Überlin	R.E.M.	Collapse Into Now
2012	Lila Wolken	Marteria, Yasha, Miss Platnum	“Lila Wolken” EP
	Kreuzberg am Meer
2012	Augenbling	Seeed	Seeed
2014	Hüftgold Berlin	Miss Platnum	“Hüftgold Berlin” EP
2014	Prayer in C	Lilly Wood and the Prick and Robin Schulz	Prayer
2015	Is’ mir egal (feat. Kazim Akboga+)	BVG	for BVG, Berlin transport authority
2015	Fickt-Euch-Allee	Grossstadtgeflüster	Fickt-Euch-Allee EP (Episode 1)
2015	Der Fernsehturm (Rework 2015)	Lexy and K-Paul	Gassenhauer (Rework 1999-2005)
2015	Berlin du bist meine Sahnecream	Zucker und Zimt	(single)
2016	Berlin	Antoine Villoutreix	Paris Berlin
2016	Das ist Berlin	Endlich August	for Berliner Morgenpost
2017	Wannsee	Die Toten Hosen	Laune der Natur
2017	Berlin, Berlin	Louka	Lametta
Entire playlist on YouTube

⁺ Slate article, by Rebecca Schuman, 16 Dec 2015. Akboga died in February 2017.

I first published this list on 22 October 2018 at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-aMQ. Last edited: 4 Jan 2024.