BERLIN TRAVEL GUIDE

Berlin Travel Guide
floor is a food court, serving dishes from around the
world.
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Spielbank Berlin
Berlin’s casino invites visitors to faites vos jeux .
Apart from roulette, Black Jack is also played, and an
entire floor is given over to gambling machines.
8 Cinemaxx
The Cinemaxx on Potsdamer Platz with its 17
screens is one of Berlin’s largest cinemas. The bigger
screens of the multiplex cinema show current Hollywood
blockbusters, while the three smallest screens are for
viewings of foreign-language films. There is also a small
bar serving drinks.
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9 DaimlerChrysler
Quartier
The Berlin headquarters of
the famous car
manufacturers was designed
by Hans Kollhoff and Renzo
Piano. The software
company “debis”, a former
offshoot of Daimler, is also
based here.
Musical- Theater Berlin
Berlin’s largest show stage, this venue has shown
hits such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Blue
Man Group . The 1,300-seat theatre is often sold out.
Exhibitions in the Filmmuseum
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Marlene Dietrich
This exhibition of the film star’s estate includes
costumes, touring luggage, photographs, letters and
notes, posters and film clips.
2 Metropolis
This film, directed by Fritz Lang in 1927, has an
alarming vision of a future world as its subject. Models
and props from the film are on display.
3 Caligari
The best known German film of the 1920s, The
Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920), was a masterpiece of
Expressionist filmmaking by Robert Wiene.
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Leni Riefenstahl
This exhibition reveals the technical tricks used in
the Nazi propaganda film Olympia , made by Leni
Riefenstahl in 1936–8.
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Film and National Socialism
This exhibition features documents relating to the
propaganda uses of film, everyday cinema and the
industry’s victims: some film stars allowed themselves
to be used by the Nazis, others refused to cooperate.
The life and work of the actor Kurt Gerron, who was
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persecuted and murdered, is documented as an
exemplary case.
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Post-War Cinema
The story of films and filmmaking in East and West
Germany, with props and costumes of popular stars of
post-war German cinema such as Hanna Schygulla, Romy
Schneider, Heinz Rühmann and Mario Adorf.
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Artificial Worlds
The tricks employed by special effects studios,
ranging from the first effects of the 1930s to computer
animation.
8 Transatlantic
This exhibition of documents, letters, keepsakes
and souvenirs retraces the careers of German film stars
in Hollywood.
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Pioneers and Divas
The infant days of cinema are featured here – as
well as stars of the silent era such as Henny Porten and
Asta Nielsen.
10 Exile
Documents relate the difficulties encountered by
German filmmakers when making a new start in the USA
in 1933–45.
Top 10 Architects
Helmut Jahn (Sony-Center)
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Renzo Piano and Christian Kohlbecker (debis
Headquarters, Musical-Theater, Spielbank,
Weinhaus Huth)
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José Rafael Moneo (Hotel Grand Hyatt,
Mercedes-Benz Headquarters)
Hans Kollhoff (DaimlerChrysler)
Giorgio Grassi (Park Colonnades)
Ulrike Lauber and Wolfram Wöhr (Grimm-Haus,
Cinemaxx)
Sir Richard Rogers (Office Block Linkstraße)
Steffen Lehmann and Arata Isozaki (Office and
Retail House Linkstraße)
Heidenreich & Michel (Weinhaus Huth)
Bruno Doedens and Maike van Stiphout
(Tilla-Durieux-Park)
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