Photos are arranged top-down & from left to right:

1. Books in a shopping window. Bowery Boys and a catalogue from Louis Vuitton 2. Bars in front of the notorious Kaffee Burger window. Supposedly the flophouse for Erasmus students. 3. Former temporary showroom just at the left of Café Sankt Oberholz 4. The Wombats City Hostel in drenching rain – for this tourist on its bike Berlin doesn’t make the best dent… 5. Cleaning up the backyard. Did you know that there are pink bulk garbage containers?! 6. This temporary art store looked kind of promising. It’s a pity that I can’t tell if it’s still there ; ) 7. Looking up at a facade – it’s the new Black Maze Building at Rosa Luxemburg Platz 8. Strange sculpture made from plastic toys from the 90s – seen in a shopping window of systM

Related articles: Durch die Straßen, durch die Gassen, Berlin Mitte: Snapshots,Whereabouts in Berlin

text & photos by Eugen Braeunig