I’m drifting around the U-Bahn junction station at Nollendorfplatz, before I head inside the Urban Nation street- and urban-art gallery and museum. So, why not: it’s about the “lalala” to (possibly) counter the grim gritty underbelly of the city. Or maybe not.
I made the image above on 18 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/60-sec, f/8, ISO1250, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vsH.
Hopping out from Berlin’s U5 Museumsinsel station onto street-level, this view south on Niederlagstrasse is towards Berlin’s 1st neo-Gothic brick building that is the Friedrichswerder Church, completed in 1830 with designs by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Schinkel’s fingerprints are all over late-19th century Prussian Berlin.
I made the image above on 17 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/60-sec, f/14, ISO1000, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vsy.
It’s the 15th of August 1961, as additional elements of the Berlin Wall went up next to a made-up barbed-wire fence marking the border of East and West Berlin. An East Berlin guard made up their mind to defect on the spot, and jumped over the fence safely into West Berlin. His name was Conrad Schumann, and news photographs of his jump made him famous. A sculpture in 2009 called “Mauerspringer” (wall jumper) captures that fateful moment; a large photograph of that very moment is on a wall nearby.
I made the image above on 16 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/500-sec, f/8, ISO2000, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vsb.
Travel day 54. The beginning of day 48 in Berlin ends with day 1 in Vienna.
I completed 7 weeks in Berlin after having been away for almost 4 years. But this is now my 4th consecutive summer in Vienna, another month in the Austrian capital. I guess the Vienna “Grantigkeit” is something I can recognize and appreciate. I’ll miss the general reach, frequency, and efficiency of Berlin’s U- & S-Bahn, but I’m also a fan of Vienna’s “end of the Alps” foothills and the unmistakable presence of the Danube river.
From one airport’s train station at BER, to the next airport’s train station at VIE.
I arrived at Berlin’s airport on an FEX (Flughafen Express) train from Gesundbrunnen station.
Multiple tracks and platforms at Berlin Brandenburg Airport BER train station.
The airport is named after former German chancellor Willy Brandt. “If I were asked to say what, apart from peace, was most important to me, then my answer would be ‘freedom’.”
BER gates A16 and A17 at left and right, respectively. My flight to Vienna with Austrian Airlines from gate A17 is getting the prep.
Into VIE: Terminal 1 arrivals’ baggage carousel.
How could you, VIE, possibly know I was thinking about going back to Meissl & Schadn? Perhaps this is why.
I’m about to board an ÖBB RailJet train to Vienna’s central station (Hauptbahnhof).
I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 30 June 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.
So goes this day, number 47 of my stay in Berlin. Most of my day is in Kreuzberg district, but I haven’t returned to the little hill that’s given the district name.
Did I accomplish everything in my to-do list for Berlin? No, the list was an impossible task, but that’s how “life-long projects” should continue. I’m starting to consider whether I should return to Berlin next summer. But those Alps beckon me, too …
According to iOS’ Health app, I walked today almost 21-thousand steps for a distance of just under 15.5 km. My sore feet and joints tell me I need to take more breaks and sit down; I’ll chew on that at the next destination. But that’s tomorrow, and as for today, here’s some of what I saw, what compelled me to make these images.
“Less castles, more jungle.” Hera (of Herakut) + Juli Jah + friends for the Green Forest Fund, 2023.
“Neues Deutschland” (new Germany).
“My home might be no palace, but we can share it if you like.” Herakut 2018.
Outside Hallesches Tor, a U-Bahn junction station for lines U1, U3, and U6.
Willy-Brandt-Haus, SPD party headquarters.
Inside Willy-Brandt-Haus.
The sky over Pankow, the city district where I’ve stayed over the last 7 weeks. It’s outside of the (S-Bahn) Ring, but not by much. I got to know the Nord-Süd Bahn, as well as the “East Berlin” segment of the U2 line.
I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 29 June 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.
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