Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #14 in Berlin, Germany

The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, built on the orders of the King of Prussia Frederick William II after restoring the Orangist power by suppressing the Dutch popular unrest. One of the best-known landmarks of Germany, it was built on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to the town of Brandenburg an der Havel, which used to be the capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

Wikipedia: Brandenburg Gate (EN), Heritage Website

The Liebermann House, also known as the Max Liebermann House, is located in Berlin-Mitte at Pariser Platz 7, north of the Brandenburg Gate. This was previously the residence and work house of the painter Max Liebermann. After destruction in the Second World War, the ruins were demolished. The property, which had been located on the border between East and West Berlin for decades, initially remained undeveloped. At the end of the 1990s, the new building was built as a critical reconstruction based on the architectural model. The Brandenburg Gate Foundation uses the building.

Wikipedia: Haus Liebermann (DE), Website

The Reichstag President Palace is a listed building on Friedrich-Ebert-Platz in Berlin opposite the east entrance to the Reichstag building. Today it is the seat of the German Parliamentary Society (DPG).

Wikipedia: Reichstagspräsidentenpalais (DE)

The artwork DER BEVÖLKERUNG by Hans Haacke was as commissioned and installed in 2000. It was erected in the north courtyard of the German Reichstag building in the year 2000 by resolution of the German Bundestag. The work consists of a trough measuring 21 x 7 meters, bounded by wooden beams, from the center of which the words "DER BEVÖLKERUNG" radiate toward the sky in white neon letters. The words can be seen from all levels of the building: from the assembly hall, the floor reserved for the political parties and the press, as well as by visitors on the roof. The public funds allocated to the project were the equivalent of approx. 200,000 euros. The artwork was realized within the framework of the Reichstag's art in architecture program.

Wikipedia: Der Bevölkerung (EN)

The Flag of Unity, also known as the Flag of Unity, is a national monument to reunification in the form of the German Federal Flag, which has existed since 1990. It stands on the Platz der Republik in Berlin in front of the west entrance of the Reichstag building, a few meters from the southern end of the lower staircase.

Wikipedia: Fahne der Einheit (DE)

The Memorial to the Murdered Members of the Reichstag is a memorial in Berlin, Germany. The memorial is located in front of the Reichstag building and commemorates the 96 members of the parliament who died unnaturally between 1933 and 1945 (1948). The idea of creating the monument started in the 1980s, and the memorial was erected in September 1992. It was designed by Dieter Appelt, Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Justus Müller, and Christian Zwirner. The memorial is made of 96 cast iron plates, with the names, birth and death dates and places engraved on the edges. It has been designed so that it can be extended if new names are discovered in the future.

Wikipedia: Memorial to the Murdered Members of the Reichstag (EN)

The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), in English House of World Cultures, in Berlin is Germany's national center for the presentation and discussion of international contemporary arts, with a special focus on non-European cultures and societies. It presents art exhibitions, theater and dance performances, concerts, author readings, films and academic conferences on Visual Art and culture. It is one of the institutions which, due to their national and international standing and the quality of their work, receive funding from the federal government as so-called "lighthouses of culture", from the Federal Minister of State for Culture and the Media as well as from the Federal Foreign Office. As a venue and collaboration partner, HKW has hosted festivals such as the transmediale, curatorial platforms, biennials such as the Berlin Documentary Forum, and mentorship programs such as Forecast. Since 2013, its interdisciplinary elaboration on the Anthropocene discourse has included conferences, exhibitions, and other artistic formats performed together with philosophers, scientists, and arstists, such as Bruno Latour and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber.

Wikipedia: Haus der Kulturen der Welt (EN), Website

Luther Bridge is a bridge over the Spree in Berlin, Germany. The bridge connects Spreeweg, adjacent to the Tiergarten, with Paulstraße in Moabit.

Wikipedia: Luther Bridge (EN)

The Bundespräsidialamt is a federal agency of the Government of Germany assisting the President of Germany.

Wikipedia: Bundespräsidialamt (EN)

Eberjagd um 1500 is an outdoor sculpture by Karl Begas, installed at Fasanerieallee in Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.

Wikipedia: Eberjagd um 1500 (EN)

Churfürstliche Fuchsjagd, also known as Die Fuchsjagd zur Kaiserzeit or Zeitgenössische Fuchsjagd, is an outdoor 1904 sculpture by Wilhelm Haverkamp, installed at Fasanerieallee in the Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany.

Wikipedia: Churfürstliche Fuchsjagd (EN)

The Grips-Theatre in Berlin is a well-known and well-respected emancipatory children's and youth theatre, located at Altonaer Straße at Hansaplatz in the Hansaviertel in Berlin's Mitte district. It is "the first theatre worldwide to deal sociocritically with the lives and living conditions of children and young people and to incorporate this in original humorous and musical plays". It has gained a national and international reputation, not least due to its former artistic director Volker Ludwig's musicals for adults, such as its evergreen Linie 1, Café Mitte or the adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. GRIPS' plays have been re-staged over 1,500 times in some 40 languages around the world.

Wikipedia: Grips-Theater (EN), Website

Hand with Clock is a sculpture in Berlin's Hansaviertel from 1975. The bronze sculpture by the sculptor Joachim Schmettau was erected as art in architecture in front of today's Gymnasium Tiergarten.

Wikipedia: Hand mit Uhr (DE)

The Hansa Bridge is a road bridge to cross the Spree at kilometer 11.53 of the Spree-Oder waterway in Berlin, Germany. Today's third structure of this name has its origins in a privately built wooden yoke bridge in 1892.

Wikipedia: Hansabrücke (DE)

C/O Berlin is a private exhibition space for photography and visual media in Berlin. It is located in Amerika Haus Berlin by Zoologischer Garten station, Charlottenburg, where it has more than 2,500 square metres of space. C/O Berlin presents works by national and international artists, supports emerging talents, and organizes educational events on visual media and art. It was founded in 2000 by Stephan Erfurt, Marc Naroska and Ingo Pott and originally located in the old Royal Post Office (Postfuhramt). C/O Berlin is supported by a non-profit foundation under the direction of Stephan Erfurt. The deputy chairman is Dr. Andreas Behr.

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The Ottilie-von-Hansemann-Haus in Berlin's Charlottenburg district is a listed building from 1914 that served as a boarding school for girls and women. After various uses between 1972 and 2013, it was converted into a residential building by the end of 2016. It is named after the women's rights activist Ottilie von Hansemann (1840–1919).

Wikipedia: Ottilie-von-Hansemann-Haus (DE), Heritage Website