Explore the West Berlin haunts of legendary writers Joseph Roth, Walter Benjamin, Vicki Baum, Irmgard Keun and many others, and learn more about the history and impact of Berlin literature. This tour visits the sites of legendary bars and café when the area around Ku’damm was the epicentre of Berlin publishing in the Weimar Republic and the stories of those who frequented them, and loops back through Kantstrasse in the 1960s and 1980 when the area again was home to a new generation of writing rebels escaping conservative West Germany to the frontier city of Berlin. Ever wanted to know why Kurt Tucholsky had a “book bar” and where Jörg Fauser went to bed with Kommune 1?
Tour Guide
Marcel Krueger is a German-Irish writer, editor and translator living in Berlin, a regular contributor to Slow Travel Berlin, and, together with Paul Sullivan, the author of “Berlin – A Literary Guide for Travellers” (Bloomsbury). Marcel is inspired by writers like W.G. Sebald, Dubravka Ugrešić and Martin Pollack, and his essays have been published in the Guardian, Notes from Poland, 3:AM, Przekrój, CNN Travel, and the Irish Times, amongst others. He is the co-editor of Elsewhere – A Journal of Place, and has published five non-fiction books in English and German.
Duration: 2 hours. Meeting and end point: Normaluhr at Bahnhof Zoo
Price: 29 Euros, a minimum of three participants is required.
Available dates: February 28th, March 1st & 2nd. Tour starts at 2 pm.
Registration: tour@marcelkrueger.eu