Maps Restaurants Cafés Nightlife Sightseeing Shopping Events Hotels Berlin February - March 2015 Film Festival The Berlinale is back Travel Fair The world visits Berlin inyourpocket.com N°73 - €1.75 SUITABLE FOR INTERNATIONAL VISITORS Contents Transport 5 Getting around by S&U Sports in Berlin 6 Ticket Hotline: +49(0)30 - 588 433 · www.wintergarten-berlin.de · Potsdamer Str. 96, 10785 Berlin All about Berlin’s top teams Basics 8 Essential travel tips Culture & Events 10 MORE THAN Roll up for theatre, shows and cinema 40.000 Berlin Mitte 20 The delights of the city centre ENTHRALLED VISITORS Berlin Charlottenburg & The West 32 Genteel western Berlin Berlin Prenzlauer Berg 42 © Dreamstime.com The gentrifi ed north Berlin Friedrichshain 46 _ Worker’s paradise, student’s playground nEW ARTisTs SYMBOL KEY nEW Mix ” ed it! Berlin Kreuzberg 48 ozart would have lik T Child friendly U Facilities for the disabled „M Berliner Zeitung Immigrants, anarchists and hipsters V Home delivery E Live music N No credit cards M Nearest S/U-Bahn station City Tours 57 B Outside seating G Non-smoking room Guided walks, bike rides and drives S R Take away Internet Directory 59 W Wi-Fi Maps & Index Additional symbols for hotels Street register 60 P Air conditioning A Credit cards accepted City map 61-63 L Guarded parking H Conference facilities Public transport map 64-65 Directed by and featuring Christoph Hagel („Flying Bach“), F K Index 66 presented by Fitness centre Restaurant DDC Company („Got to Dance“ finalists 2013) D C and Top-Artists of BASE Berlin Sauna Swimming pool Dinner price guide BERLIN BOXES The number of euro symbols in our restaurant, café 23 February – 7 June 2015 and nightlife reviews indicates the approximate price Scattered throughout the guide you’ll fi nd boxes with Wed – Sat 20:00 · Sun 18:00 level based on a main course with a glass of wine. more information about these topics: €€€€ Expensive; more than €30 per person. Tickets from € 32,00 Berlin in books 36, 56 Prices plus advance booking fee and € 2 system fee/ticket €€€ Not cheap; €20-30 per person. Cold War Berlin 41 www.apunktmpunkt.de · Artwork & Foto by flow n mary bit.ly/wigaweb #wigamozart €€ Middling; from €10-20 per person. Drinks in Berlin 18 Erasmus Student Network 8 € Cheap; less than €10 per person. West Berlin Revival 37 facebook.com/BerlinInYourPocket February - March 2015 3 Foreword Transport Mid-winter in Berlin is perhaps the best time to visit this Although Berlin is lodged in the middle of the great hr. For short hops hail a taxi already driving in the direction Publisher fascinating city. True, the weather can be atrocious and the In Your Pocket GmbH empty vastness of northeast Germany, it’s very well you need to go and immediately ask for the Kurzfahrstrecke locals tend to be grumpier than usual. But on the other Axel-Springer-Straße 39 connected to the rest of civilisation by bus, train, Autobahn tarriff ; €4 for 2km. By the way, Funk means radio. hand, you can walk beneath the Brandenburg Gate without 10969 Berlin and air. Once in Berlin, you’ll wish that your home town had Q crowds of tourists poking you with their selfi e-sticks, fi nd a Tel: +49 30 27 90 79 81 such good public transport. CITY FUNK tel. +49 30 21 02 02, www.cityfunk.de. table in a good restaurant without a reservation, and enjoy Fax: +49 30 24 04 73 50 FUNK TAXI BERLINQtel. +49 30 26 10 26, an excellent museum exhibition without having to queue. [email protected] www.taxifunkberlin.de. www.inyourpocket.com In the many bars of Berlin’s quirkier districts it’s easier to PUBLIC TRANSPORT Q ISSN 1611-9037 TAXI FUNK tel. +49 30 44 33 22, www.taxi443322.de. huddle over a beer and get to know the locals. Berlin’s integrated network of U-Bahn (Untergrundbahn, WBT FUNK TAXI BERLINQtel. +49 30 26 10 26, There are two major events that do see the hotels pack out. Printed by Druckteam GbR Berlin. underground trains), bus, and Straßenbahn (trams) run Circulation 20,000 copies bimonthly by BVG and S-Bahn and RE (Schnellbahn and regional www.funk-taxi-berlin.de. In early February the Berlinale circus rolls into town; watch Q the Hollywood stars and other fi lm industry boffi ns shiver The public transport map is used under license no. BVG-0079.11. commuter trains run by DB) usually works like a dream. Just WÜRFEL-FUNK tel. +49 30 21 01 01, www.wuerfelfunk.de. their way up the red carpet to witness their fi lm launch, and Editorial remember the number or colour and end station of the line join the queues with thousands of other visitors getting a Editors Jeroen van Marle, Philippe Krüger, Christina Knight you want to use, and you’ll be navigating the labyrinth-like peek at the world’s best new or most obscure old movies; Research Cecilia Engvall, Layout Tomáš Haman, stations like a local. read all about it on p.10. Photos Jeroen van Marle (JvM), Emilie Guilland (EG) Most S/U-Bahn trains, buses and trams run every 5-15 minutes CYCLING Maps Kartographie Eichner, during the day. M buses and trams run every half hour at As long as it’s dry, getting around Berlin is really best done Then in early March, the world visits Berlin when the ITB Cover © Anibal Trejo | Dreamstime.com travel fair (see p.16), the biggest of its kind, descends upon night; U-Bahn trains run every 15 minutes on weekend nights, by bicycle. It’s a fl at city, there are plenty of cycle paths and the trade fair centre with its hundreds of thousands of trade Sales & Circulation with N buses following their routes every half hour (starting wide bus lanes for you to use and you see so much more and leisure visitors; this year’s theme country is Mongolia, General Manager Stephan Krämer from Hackescher Markt) on weekday nights. from the saddle than from the U-Bahn train window. Note the rapidly developing destination at the other end of the Production Manager Philippe Krüger Tickets can be used on all BVG, S-Bahn and local RE train that cycling on the pavement is illegal and may get you Accounting Martin Wollenhaupt Trans-Siberian railway. services. Vending machines have instructions in English fi ned, even though everyone does it. Cycling across town Advertising Managers Philippe Krüger, and accept coins, often bank notes and cards too. Berlin’s may take a while, though for €1,60 you can take your bike Whatever you do this winter, stay warm and do write in CoCoMedia ([email protected]) to tell us about your experiences, tips and complaints, at AB travel zone contains nearly everything; you’ll only need on an S/U-Bahn train too. There are dozens of bike rental [email protected]. Copyright notice & Editor’s note an ABC-ticket for Potsdam and Schoenefeld airport. places, most charging €10-12 per day. 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