Synopses & Reviews
Analogue Guides are a series of curated city guidebooks featuring high-quality, low-key venues distilled through the lens of the neighborhood. Each neighborhood is complemented by a concise set of sophisticated listings, including restaurants, cafés, bars, hotels, and serendipitous finds, all illustrated with photographs. The listings are supplemented by user-friendly maps to facilitate navigation of the cityscape. By highlighting aspects of the urban patina frequently lost under the corporate veil of large restaurant groups and ubiquitous chains, the mood and feel of each unique city is captured. The result is a compact, efficient manual celebrating the ingenuity of the contemporary metropolis.
Berlin is probably the most happening city in Europe today and certainly the most fascinating of the continents major capitals. Though undoubtedly a more mainstream city than it was two decades ago, its unique history has left it with a diverse set of neighborhoods, architecture, and people. In the former East, Mitte has dramatically shifted from socialist decay to the embodiment of contemporary Berlin, boasting innovative retail and a vibrant art and café scene. The citys alternative-creative edge has spilled from Kreuzberg into Neukölln. In the West, Charlottenburg and Schöneberg exude the air of prosperous 20th-century West Germany. Including a U-Bahn map, the guide charts the best of what this unparalleled city has to offer.
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"They're wonderfully designed (like a combination of the best features of the Luxe and Wallpaper guides and the Internet) and have great taste: even longtime New Yorkers will find great new finds." —Idlewild Books, New York, NY on Analogue Guide New York
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“This comprehensive, well-illustrated book offers the reader fascinating insights into the world’s most notorious Wall." —Paul Sullivan, Slow Travel Berlin
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“A picturesque tour to the remembrances of the Wall that gives you a unique feeling about Berlin history." —Dorothee Dubrau, planning commissioner, Berlin-Mitte and Leipzig
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"It's not just a guide, but a commentary on the significance of the Wall. It highlights the dark history of the Iron Curtain, as well as its political and artistic legacy as a canvas and cultural landmark. Readers will be rewarded with a multi-faceted manual to understanding both the complexity and significance of a world-famous symbol." —Justinian Jampol, director, Wende Museum, Los Angeles
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Berlin for Free is an invaluable guide for the frugal traveler, to everything free in Berlin: Underground pop, classical music, and concerts in the park, art shows and exhibitions, museums and movies, readings and theater, sport events, city tours, gay life, and street fairs. All of these no-cost opportunities for kids and grown-ups alike are neatly arranged and easy to find. The book also includes more than two hundred addresses, phone numbers, and web sitesand all the information is fact-checked and recently updated.
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Discovering Berlin has never been easier with this invaluable guide for the frugal traveler. This book has neatly arranged the best no-cost opportunities for kids and grown-ups alike. A wide variety of easy-to-find activities such as concerts in the park, films, tours, exhibitions, sporting events, and street fairs are included. More than 200 up-to-date addresses, phone numbers, and web sites that have been fact-checked round out the useful information.
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A tour of the last traces and fading memories of the Berlin Wall, this book takes the reader to memorials, parks, backyards, train tracks, factories, churches, and Prussian cemeteries. There are stories of struggle, desperation, survival, rebirth, and a history that shaped the post- war world. Also depicted are the people of Berlin as they are reclaiming and memorializing the ground where the Wall once stood: Mauer Park, where young people from all over world gather to party; a guard tower that is now the Museum of Forbidden Art; the Topography of Terror Museum, which includes the former Gestapo headquarters; and landmarks such as the Reichstag, the East Side Gallery, and Checkpoint Charlie.
About the Author
Michael Cramer is a member of the European Parliament who acts as speaker for the Green Party in the committee on transport and tourism. He lives in Berlin. Eva C. Schweitzer is the founder and owner of Berlinica, a New York-based publisher devoted to all things Berlin for Americans. She is the author of Manhattan Moments and the photographer of Wings of Desire. She lives in New York City.