“Science is an integral part of culture. It’s not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It’s one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.” – S.J. Gould.
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 shouts of “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.
U1/U3 Hallesches Tor, platform for eastbound trains to Warschauer Strasse.
I made all photos above on 16 and 17 June 2026. This post is created with Jetpack for iOS for Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.
“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.
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.
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