22 Oct 2018 0001 GMT+0000
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.”
| 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) |
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| These Habits (feat. Pyur) |
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| 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.
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Lola run, is such a great movie, I watched it a few years ago. Thank you for the list of music to listen , I will enjoy bit by bit.
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By www.corneliaweber-photography.com on 22 Oct 2018 at 0110 GMT+0000
Thanks, Cornelia! I haven’t seen “Lola rennt” in awhile, and I’d like to see the movie again.
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By fotoeins on 23 Oct 2018 at 0039 GMT+0000
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