Teufelsberg - Listening station turned echo chamber

You are facing another massive photo-overdose. If you thought the ruins of Spreepark* were creepy, weird, derelicte, fascinating, fairy-tale like or out of this world, it gets better. Brace yourselves for a montain built of ruins of - according to an estimate in Wikipedia: - 400 000 buildings destroyed in the World War II, and an old falling-apart US listening station. Welcome to Teufelsberg.

*) For Spreepark scroll down below to the previous 2 posts.

This is the hill built of war waste from up above.


And this is where I took the picture from: The US listening station from post-war times aswell.


The walk was long, and in the end we found out no-one's allowed in. "Allowed". There were people inside the fences, and helpful Berliners showed us the best hole in the fence.


Then we climbed into the buildings and towers. You go girl.

The staircase wasn't that well lit.

But it still beat taking the lift.


See - it wasn't really "closed down" at all. They'd even built new walls for painters. But I guess they need to lock it down, cos the floors are full of holes, there are practically no proper walls, and otherwise someone'd have to take responsibility for all the junkies that trip and fall. Literally.


On the edge.

First landscapes.




Then up even higher, darker, and louder. The wind was pretty intense up there. And the acoustics in the giant golf ball, man, you could hear your breath up there like it was Darth Vader!

And from this clip you can hear what it sounds like in a giant golf ball. And what it looks like when you could just walk out of the door to a free fall of over 100 meters. Turn up your speakers, guys.



Here's a Wikipedia fun-fact (especially 'fun' now that I read it afterwards)! "Wild Boar, which American soldiers nicknamed "grunie pigs," roam free on the hill. Visitors are advised to stay on the paths at all times." LOL. happy we didn't run into those.

Another fun-fact:


These two pictures made my day:



All sources and picture of Scooter from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teufelsberg
Other pictures by me.

Peaches Christ Superstar

Last week we wento to see an amazing piece of culture: Peaches performing all characters of Jesus Christ Superstar. All she had were 2 outfits, a pianist, some dancers for the crusifiction scene and a giant cross with a distinguished gross form to it. But other than the cross, the whole thing was beautiful. I'd waited so long to see her live, but I'd never had the chance, and now this was the perfect way to start.

The audience was like the cast of the L-word.

I wore:
a vintage dress I've been waiting to get to wear, from Colours
bolero - H&M
boots - Motivi
earrings - vintage from Mexico
bracelets - Green Elephant & from Lahti harbour, Finland
watch - Cheapo
clutch - vintage from Hietsu square, Helsinki

Rene's stuff is mostly from We.

The first act was incredibly sensitive, and made you forget all about the Peaches we're used to. And then came act 2, that reminded us of what we'd just forgotten. The contrast was amazing, act 2 really kicked ass. People were so excited, and so was the star, when she got a bouquet of flowers from a guy from the audience...

Amazing woman.

The perfect place for horror stories, Part 1

The last few weeks we've been to some of the most spectacular places in Berlin, and I have about 500 photos to show you... I'd never heard of Spreepark before, but Saana told me about it. It's a forsaken amusement park that was founded in the former DDR, and died 2002 after the owner got busted of smuggling 180 kilos of blow in the Flying Carpet. Dude! o_O And to think I'd never heard of this shit?! We decided to find out what's going on in there now, only it was a bit trickier than we thought... we actually ended up going there 3 times, before we finally got in. And it was so worth it.

Laundry of the girl on the right:
Scarf - made by Anniina
jacket - Bershka
hoodie - Pull n Bear
belt - Vans
jeans - Levi's men's
shoes - Onitsuka Tiger
bag - Tommy Hilfiger
Saana's coat I know to be from Desigual.

The area of Spreepark Plänterwald, close to Treptower Park is really cool with a gloomy Gotham City-style twist. The first time we were on the wrong side of the bay, it was getting dark, and all we could see were the smog and the Ferris wheel in the skyline...


The second time we walked around the whole fence of the place, only to find out we weren't gonna get in at all.


This is how it used to look like. I dunno which pics are creepier...


Finally we came to this sign, and decided to give it a third try next week. The tickets cost 15 euros, and it rained like hell, but it made the experience all the more creepy and intense! (Pics of that coming up in the next post.)


After it had rained AND snowed and we were soaked and gutted, because of our 2 useless tries of finding this mystical place, we rewarded ourselves with the nicest oasis we could find: Gemelli, close to Schlesisches Tor. My camera was covered in fog.


Ginger tea was hot...


The salmon-wasabi-sandwiches were delicious.


And back in the lost amusement park the Ferris wheel was still spinning... God knows why.