Prenzlauer Berg als ehemaliger Bezirk am Rande der Berliner Ost-West-Grenze hat auch schon vor der Teilung Deutschlands eine lange Geschichte durchgemacht. Die Industrialisierung in den 20er und 30er Jahren führte sehr viele Firmen und Unternehmer nach Prenzlauer Berg. Viele der alten Industriegebäude sind zwar heute noch erhalten, jedoch die meisten im 2. Weltkrieg zerstört worden.
Nach dem Fall der Mauer 1989, fristete Prenzlauer [...] Continue Reading…
Todays are political in nature – because it has been a highly political Easter this year!
Found this on the outside of some scaffolding on a building which is being renovated on Choriner Straße between Schwedter and Zionskirchstraße in Berlin Mitte.
“Horst Wessel du Nazi Schwein!” has got to be hit and winner – this is progressive grafitti.
This whole area was called not Berlin [...] Continue Reading…
This Ceramic ‘Conehead’ statuette was found by blog reader Oleg on the corner of Boxhagener Strasse & Wühlischstraße near Ostkreuz – it is in neighbourhood or Bezirk of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
‘Coneheads’ are an alien family, natives of the planet Remulak, who found themselves stranded on Earth and when questioned by Earthlings where they are from they inevitably reply that they are “from France”. Their [...] Continue Reading…
Billboard size Grafitti in Berlin – OTA-Berlin
Berlin is that kind of a city – artistic people want to express themselves …and what better way than just painting or stenciling on some un-used brick wall!
Todays pictures a huge billboard sized face at the corner of Holzmarktstraße. and Michaelbrücke in Berlin Friedrichshain / Kreuzberg.
They were sent by a Dutch tourist who stayed at OTA-Berlin serviced apartments last [...] Continue Reading…
Woman on stilts in front of Berlin Reichstag – foto -http://owlfliesnorth.tumblr.com/
Kiwi Blog reader – New Zealander Ms Carmel Blanchard sent us this funny foto of ……….yes what can one say other than that we have a woman/man on stilts – infront of the Berliner Dome in Berlin Mitte. [Schloßplatz, Mitte 10178 Berlin,[
She sent this picture on our www.ota-berlin.de blog website in [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin is that kind of a city – artistic people want to express themselves …and what better way than just painting or stenciling on some un-used brick wall!
Todays picture shows almost copied or an artists version of famous people like Marilyn Monroe and a Beck’s Beer advertisement as painted on the wall of a small market in Prenzlauer Berg. Also a [...] Continue Reading…
“You have to take the rough with the smooth”, say the riffraff to the gentrified (or vice versa). And there is still a good deal of gritty realism to be spotted in Prenzlauer Berg and Mitte, at least as far as the exterior design goes. So that us middle-classes can sit with a latte and laptop and enjoy the crumbling charm of [...] Continue Reading…
I’M THE BLOODY QUEEN OF ENGLAND – now how is that for a heady statement straight from the heart of street art? A monarch might mind and lament “we are not amused” that “it has pleased Providence to place me in this station”, but at least aesthetically it’s quite a pleasing ‘tagline’ (which I saw not at London’s Victoria station but in [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin is that kind of a city – artistic people want to express themselves …and what better way than just painting or stenciling on some un-used brick wall!
Constituency Blog writes often about progressive….and also not so progressive……even offensive Grafitti in Berlin – previous articles can be read at;
http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/2010/07/08/progressive-berlin-grafitti-kreuzberg/
http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/2010/04/26/berlin-street-art-and-berlin-street-posters-are-not-graffiti-poster-art-in-berlin-mitte-prenzlauer-berg-part-1-ota-berlin-constituency-blog/
http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/2010/07/05/sheep-grazing-peacefully-in-middle-of-berlin-or-are-they-just-progressive-graffiti/
The article is produced by OTA-Berlin GmbH. OTA-Berlin ……the intelligent Apartment Alternative to Hotels in Berlin [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin is that kind of a city – artistic people want to express themselves …and what better way than just painting or stenciling on some un-used brick wall!
Constituency Blog writes often about progressive….and also not so progressive……even offensive Grafitti in Berlin – previous articles can be read at;
http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/2010/07/08/progressive-berlin-grafitti-kreuzberg/
http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/2010/04/26/berlin-street-art-and-berlin-street-posters-are-not-graffiti-poster-art-in-berlin-mitte-prenzlauer-berg-part-1-ota-berlin-constituency-blog/
http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/2010/07/05/sheep-grazing-peacefully-in-middle-of-berlin-or-are-they-just-progressive-graffiti/
The article is produced by OTA-Berlin GmbH. OTA-Berlin ……the intelligent Apartment Alternative to Hotels in [...] Continue Reading…
Berlin is that kind of a city – artistic people want to express themselves …and what better way than just painting or stenciling on some un-used brick wall!
Constituency Blog writes often about progressive….and also not so progressive……even offensive Grafitti in Berlin – previous articles can be read at;
http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/2010/07/08/progressive-berlin-grafitti-kreuzberg/
http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/2010/04/26/berlin-street-art-and-berlin-street-posters-are-not-graffiti-poster-art-in-berlin-mitte-prenzlauer-berg-part-1-ota-berlin-constituency-blog/
http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/2010/07/05/sheep-grazing-peacefully-in-middle-of-berlin-or-are-they-just-progressive-graffiti/
The article is produced by OTA-Berlin GmbH. OTA-Berlin ……the intelligent Apartment Alternative to Hotels in Berlin [...] Continue Reading…
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