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Goooool, but in German

Because Berlin loves you.

Berlin’s transport authority is getting into the swing of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, as BVG has only recently and temporarily changed signage at 6 of their U-Bahn stations.

These specifically are stations with the word “Tor” at locations which used to be gates in the city’s 18th-century excise-tax wall. The stations are: Brandenburger Tor, Frankfurter Tor, Hallesches Tor, Kottbusser Tor, Oranienburger Tor, and Schlesisches Tor.

It doesn’t exactly have the same enthusiasm and flavour as football announcers in South America with their “G-g-g-g-gOOOOOl !!!”, but the word “goal” in German happens to be “Tor.”

That’s where we come back to Berlin’s BVG, because their motto “weil wir dich lieben” (because we love you) suggests a knowing wink-and-nod to Berliners. Here are images of 3 stations from the same day.

U5 Brandenburger Tor.
Street-level entry-exit, U5 Brandenburger Tor.
Street-level entry-exit, U6 Oranienburger Tor.
Street-level entry-exit, U6 Oranienburger Tor.
Passage between U1/U3 & U6, Hallesches Tor.
Passage between U1/U3 & U6, Hallesches Tor.

I made all photos above on 16 June 2026. This post is created with Jetpack for iOS for Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

Week 5 – no comment

With brand new captions

Mary Jane, Mustafa’s, Mehringdamm. Berlin – 7 June 2026.
Babylon Berlin – 9 June 2026.
S-Bahn Berlin, Greifswalder Strasse station – 10 June 2026.
Chris Gueffroy, 20, shot to death by East German border guards on 5 February 1989 at the Berlin Wall – 11 June 2026.
“ON!” at Berlin Savignyplatz – 12 June 2026.
Albert & Elsa Einstein’s summer house (1929 to 1933) in Caputh – 13 June 2026.
Late-day illumination at Potsdamer Platz 10. Berlin – 13 June 2026.
Helmut Newton for “Elle”, Paris 1969. Berlin Museum für Fotografie – 14 June 2026.
Berlin “Set Theory” Clock display: 1925h to 1926h, 14 June 2026.

Week 4 – no comment

With slightly extended captions

“Brot!” (Bread!), by Käthe Kollwitz, 1924. Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Berlin – 2 June 2026.
30-seconds, audio from nearby video “Drummerrsss”, by Gilad Ratman. Jewish Museum Berlin – 3 June 2026.
Geographic centre of Berlin, as determined by the land-surveying office – 3 June 2026.
Please caress at the onset of strong emotions. “Emotionales Denkmal”, by Hans Peter Adamski, 2012. Berlin – 3 June 2026.
Louise Brooks, one face of many in the German Film Archive. Berlin – 4 June 2026.
Berlin U-Bahn, Potsdamer Platz – 4 June 2026.
“Tito’s Funeral”, by Marina Abramović, 2025. Berlin Gropius-Bau, 5 June 2026.
“Tito’s Funeral”, by Marina Abramović, 2025. Berlin Gropius-Bau, 5 June 2026.
Marga Wolff von Etzdorf: 1st woman to fly for airline Deutsche Luft Hansa, 1928; 1st woman to fly solo from Berlin to Tokyo, 1931; strongly suspected of having signed with Nazis to smuggle weapons. Berlin Invalidenfriedhof – 6 June 2026.
“My home might be no palace, but we can share it if you like” (herakut, 2018). Berlin – 7 June 2026.

Week 3 – no comment

But more captions

One of many tiny cork figures in Berlin: Askanischer Platz – 24 May 2026.
Mini Eiffel Tower (13-metres high), next to the Centre Français de Berlin – 25 May 2026.
Berlin U-Bahn station: Berliner Strasse – 26 May 2026.
“I ❤️ BLN: de Berlin al cielo.” ¡Berlin: el placer de lo prohibido! 27 May 2026.
C/O Berlin (Amerika-Haus) – 28 May 2026.
“Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas” / our lady of the iguanas, photograph by Graciela Iturbide (México, 1979). Exhibition at C/O Berlin – 28 May 2026.
Berlin Ostkreuz (east junction) – 30 May 2026.
On track 1, neither this S-Bahn train nor the shown S15 route is in service. Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof – 31 May 2026.
“Stufen” (steps), Micha Ullman, 2012. St. Matthew’s Church, Berlin – 31 May 2026.
A simple direct message. Kulturforum construction site in Berlin – 31 May 2026.

Week 2 – no comment

But perhaps a few captions

🌈 Berlin – 16 May 2026.
Berlin’s “Kreuzberg” (Prussian cross on a hill) – 17 May 2026.
Seating from Vienna’s Museumquartier, next to Berlin’s Humboldt Forum – 18 May 2026.
“We Make Years Out of Hours”, by Lina Lapelyté. Hamburger Bahnhof National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Berlin – 19 May 2026.
64-second sample: “We Make Years Out of Hours”, by Lina Lapelyté. Hamburger Bahnhof National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Berlin – 19 May 2026.
Fliegerberg hill built in 1894 by Otto Lilienthal for testing gliders. Berlin – 21 May 2026.
The stele acknowledges 3 people who died near this location, because they tried to escape or got too close to the Berlin Wall. Hohen Neuendorf – 22 May 2026.