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I began my first day in Berlin by practising one of my morning rituals, Yoga. During my sun salutation practice, I felt a sense of confidence in being myself and could listen to my inner voice.

The photo in this room is more significant than the TV. It creates the perfect ambience that I wanted to be in.

Hotel Oderberger https://www.hotel-oderberger.berlin

[olafkroenke]

Tobias Oertel

for Cards & Covers Artist Service, Hotel Oderberger, Berlin

[hunter-rodrigez]

Man, fuck both of these aesthetics, I want buildings to have some fucking decoration and ornaments again like they had in late 19th/early 20th century architecture:

Hotel Tassel, Brussels (1893)

Bradbury Building, Los Angeles (1893)

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan (1877)

We could do amazing modern takes on these styles with the kind of tech and materials we have nowadays. Seriously, have some fun with it...

I am just so fucking tired of ultra minimalism where every single fucking building looks like "featureless cube" was the design guideline:

I mean come on, even apartment buildings looked better back then:

Oderberger Street, Berlin (~1900)

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Explore Berlin – What to Do, See, and Eat?

Berlin is a city that fascinates all kinds of people. No matter if you are an explorer, a music lover, or a player, Berlin has you covered. It is a city of divergent seasons: winters are long and gloomy; residents bundle up in layers to withstand Siberian winds. This is accompanied by contrasting humid summers, spent relaxing in parks and alongside the lakes. In stately western Berlin, the extensive avenues are punctuated by shopping malls, Starbucks outlets, beverage shops… Entirely different in style to its former-Soviet eastern counterpart, with its mass-produced, prefabricated Plattenbau residence blocks. At Potsdamer Platz, visitors find a global capital city with shimmering glass buildings. But a more transgressive section of the town is seen at twilight: in the clubs and bars, despite growing property prices. The multiple facets of the city united together in 2019 to commemorate 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

What can I do Berlin?

1. Plunge into history: Barely 200 meters of the Berlin Wall persists, weathered to the wire, at Niederkirchnerstrasse. It marks the boundary between Mitte in East Berlin and Kreuzberg in West Berlin. You can even walk the length of it, if you wish. Rotate your head to see the Topography of Terror, a museum established in the erstwhile headquarters of the Nazi covert police. This is also where a free exhibition features the most horrifying era of German history. From there, walk north past Checkpoint Charlie and Potsdamer Platz to get a larger glimpse of Berlin’s beauty. Potsdamer Platz has been restored since the downfall of the wall with a dizzying quantity of skyscrapers, now a sprawling public square. As you move towards the Brandenburg Gate, look out for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a gloomy figure of coffin-like solid slabs that tourists can walk in between.

Wander the museums: There are five museums that jostle for space on Berlin’s Museum Island. Attending all of these in a single day seems like a bit of a stretch, so make sure you set aside ample time! Or, with a single ticket at €18 (£15), you can choose the highlights: the Pergamon Altar built on the terraces of the acropolis at the Pergamon Museum; the bust of Nefertiti, the Egyptian queen, at the Neues Museum; and the European figure collection at the Bode Museum. However, all are closed on Mondays so take care before leaving for the venue.

Take a dip: If you are visiting in summer, the Badeschiff is primarily a swimming pool on a barge. You can do lengths in turquoise water facing the River Spree. Just wipe off in the sun with a beer and a deckchair on the shore and enjoy the view. Also make sure to check the venue listings for formal parties and live harmony. The entry fee is around €5.50.

Where can I stay in Berlin? In the beautiful northern region of Prenzlauer Berg, a prior public bathhouse has been remodeled into Hotel Oderberger. The baths have been painstakingly reconstructed, with domed ceilings enclosed by magnificent columns. It’s quite the place for a morning swim (but be conscious that the guests will have to pay for it). The guest quarters are spacious and modern – some include stairs up to mezzanine bedrooms – and breakfast is a lavish spread of cheese, meat, and fruit with a live waffle-making section for the special pickers. The price ranges from £108. On the west side of the city, Max Brown Ku’Damm has become a favorite brunch spot for locals, with lines winding around the block on the weekends. The hotel, named after the nearby shopping boulevard, has 70 rooms with beautiful oak floors, white blinds and capricious features. These even include basketball hoops and Crosley cassette players! The hotel’s happy hour operates between 5-9 pm. Doubles from £54.

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Winterwedding in Berlin

It was a fantastic venue in the Oderberger Hotel in Berlin. I was so thrilled to do this very classical and elegant wedding for my agency Williams & Gauld. I worked with old Englisch roses, eucalyptus, mistletoe, ranunculus and wachsflower.

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Hof am Hotel - Oderberger- Straße #voyage #travel #travelblogger #travelphotography #reisen #resor #reizen #travelgram #traveling #reise #travels #reisefotografie #viajes #viagem #viaje #fotografiadeviagem #fotografia #reiselust #reisebilder #travelholic #travelguide #travellers #travelstoke Foto: Ben Laurel (hier: Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx0OsfMIC4V/?igshid=1wfgc13h8zy6l

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Hotel Oderberger Berlin Review - Actualizado para 2020

Hotel Oderberger Berlin Review – Actualizado para 2020

Hogar > Opinión de Hotel MANI Actualizado: 6 de febrero de 2020

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Oderberger – Un elegante hotel boutique en un edificio inolvidable.

No hay otro lugar como el Oderberger: un hotel boutique construido en una enorme y grandiosa casa de baños públicos junto a un campus de una escuela de idiomas. Es una mezcla extraña, pero de alguna manera funciona. El edificio de 1902 en sí mismo fue…

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36 Hours in Berlin – The New York Times

On Nov. 9, 1989, the East German government made a surprising announcement: It was easing up travel restrictions on its citizens. East Berliners flocked to the nearest border crossings at the Berlin Wall, especially at Checkpoint Charlie, the famed crossing between the divided Berlins. Not long after that, Berliners from the east and west began chipping away at the literal and metaphorical wall that had separated them for nearly three decades, since the Soviet-backed East German government erected the concrete slabs that split the city in two. The Cold War was over. Well, sort of. Today in Berlin you can still go back to that world by eating and drinking in restaurants and bars dedicated to the German Democratic Republic — G.D.R. for short, or D.D.R. in the local parlance — as well as learn about the former East Berlin via fascinating museums, architecture and shops.

Friday

1) 3 p.m. Communists, nudists and dissidents

Ever wonder why East Germans had a proclivity for hanging out in public stark naked? Or what it was like to drive a Trabant — the cult East German-made automobile with a Formica-like Duroplast body — around East Germany in the 1980s? Or what an interrogation room looked like? You can find out at the DDR Museum, a fascinating, immersive, hands-on experience that serves as an excellent introduction to life in East Germany. The museum, which opened in 2006 and is housed in a modern building on the Spree River, recently welcomed its six millionth visitor. Admission: 9.80 euros, or about $10.80.

2) 7 p.m. The ‘People’s’ restaurant

Named for the “People’s Chamber,” the lower house of parliament in the G.D.R., Volkskammer tries to revive East Germany on a daily basis by cooking up gruel for the odd local with a case of “ostalgie” — nostalgia for the old East — and curious tourists willing to punish their palates with hearty slop like Falscher Hase, or counterfeit rabbit: a dense, gravy-smothered meatloaf hiding a hard-boiled egg and cured pork knuckle with kraut. Dinner for two is about €50, including beer or wine. If you can’t stomach Soviet-era cuisine, try nearby Michelberger (in the hotel of the same name), which serves up excellent farm-to-table, uber-seasonal fare such as venison pie or wild boar schnitzel with pumpkin. Dinner for two is about €75, with wine.

3) 9 p.m. Red hangover

Opened in 1992, just three years after the Wall fell, Die Tagung, a bar in the Friedrichshain neighborhood, celebrates the G.D.R. with a sense of humor. The owner, a longtime Friedrichshain resident, scoured a local abandoned train repair complex for former East Berlin-era signs that now grace the walls, along with tapestries bearing the image of Karl Marx, and a large bust of Vladimir Lenin who was, on a recent visit, sporting headphones and aviator glasses. There are also enough red stars and hammer-and-sickle symbols to inspire a collective May Day parade. Imbibe a Russian Cocaine, €3: a shot of vodka that comes with a slice of lemon coated with sugar on one side and coffee grinds on the other.

Saturday

4) 10:30 a.m. A Stalinist stroll

Built on the rubble of World War II, the wide boulevard known as Karl Marx Allee started life as Stalinallee, Stalin Boulevard, but was renamed after Marx in 1961. Between Frankfurter Tor in Friedrichshain and Alexanderplatz — just under two miles — the 300-foot-wide street is lined with monumental, wedding cakelike, Stalinist-style structures, built to be “workers’ palaces,” a place for East Germany to showcase the glories of Socialism. The Italian architect Aldo Rossi called it “Europe’s last great street.” Placards are positioned along the way to explain the history of noteworthy buildings, such as Kino International, a still-working movie theater and a gem of functionalist architecture, and the duel towers, Frankfurter Tor.

5) Noon. Snack break

Named for a popular G.D.R.-era magazine, Café Sibylle is one of the few businesses on the Karl Marx Allee that still exists from the Cold War days. About halfway along the boulevard, the cafe is nicely positioned for a rest. After taking in the permanent exhibition on the evolution of the boulevard, complete with text, photos and household objects from the 1950s and 60s, plant yourself at a table and sip coffee or a beer and graze on a salad or a sausage. The wooden tables and high ceilings invite visitors to stay awhile. Lunch for two costs about €25.

6) 3 p.m. Shop like a Socialist

Good news, comrade! Both ends of Karl Marx Allee — or at least between Frankfurter Tor and Alexanderplatz — are book ended by Humana Second Hand & Vintage shops. The outlet at Frankfurter Tor is the largest secondhand shop in Berlin: four floors of vintage and used duds. The top floor focuses on clothes from the 1950s to the 1990s, and there are often select racks for G.D.R. clothes at either or both locations. If you like your Socialist souvenirs even more kitschy, head to Ampelmann, south of Alexanderplatz, a shop that sells images of the “traffic light man,” an East German symbol that has become iconic since the fall of the Wall, on everything from golf balls to coffee mugs to T-shirts.

7) 5:30 p.m. Walking the Wall

The East Side Gallery in Friedrichshain; the long stretch of the Berlin Wall that is clad in colorful iconic images; and the Wall Museum near Checkpoint Charlie: These sites all get ample visitors. But the most sobering way to get a sense of what it was like to live in Berlin during the time of the Wall is at the Berlin Wall Memorial in Prenzlauer Berg. This portion of the wall and the harrowing section known as the “death strip” — with its booby traps, armed guards, towers and trenches — allow visitors to see the most preserved swath of the remaining wall complex. Admission is free.

8) 8 p.m. Vodka shots and soljanka

Opened in 1994 and located in the former East Berlin neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg, Restaurant Pasternak serves dishes from around the former Soviet Union, particularly from Russia and Ukraine; many of the options have an Eastern European Jewish bent. The restaurant is named after the Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and author of “Doctor Zhivago,” Boris Pasternak. Start off with a bowl of soljanka, a creamy, dill-spiked soup that has Russian origins, but was one of the most popular dishes in the former East Germany; then move on to sautéed calf’s liver and latkes accented with a spicy apple jam. And don’t forget to have a few shots of the house vodka. Dinner for two, about €85 with wine or vodka.

9) 10 p.m. House party

You could go to the Museumswohnung, a three-bedroom apartment so perfectly preserved you’d almost expect the Stasi, the official East German state security apparatus, to be bugging the place. Or you could spend your Saturday night dancing at Salon zur Wilden Renate, a techno club that took over an abandoned apartment building in Friedrichshain and sort of left things as they were, including 1970s wallpaper, couches and beds. Opening times vary, so check the club website before heading out. Entrance is €10 to €15, depending on the night and event.

Sunday

10) 11 a.m. The lives of others

The Stasi’s main job was spying on ordinary people who were not in line with party policies and values, hauntingly depicted in the 2006 German film “The Lives of Others.” The Stasi Museum is in the agency’s former headquarters in Lichtenberg. The three floors hold hundreds of artifacts, such as bugging devices, hidden cameras and lock picks, as well as placards detailing nearly every aspect of the organization, including the fact that up to 180,000 East German “unofficial informants” were working with the Stasi by 1989. The tour ends on the third floor at a cafe and bar — after the museum, you might need a stiff drink. There are free 90-minute guided tours in English at 3 p.m. on Thursday to Monday. Admission is €8 and the tour is free.

11) 2 p.m. Schnitzel and schlock

PILA is a restaurant on Friedrichshain Volkspark that also bills itself as a museum dedicated to the former East Germany. The interior is bedecked with all manner of G.D.R. minutiae — enough East Berlin flags and portraits of former dear leaders to bring tears to the eyes of those nostalgic for five-year plans and collective farming. This is a place for those craving dishes like schnitzel atop fusilli pasta with a few splotches of ketchup-spiked tomato sauce and plus-size plates of currywurst, which is better than you’d think. Even the light, flimsy forks and spoons are legit G.D.R. throwbacks. Lunch is about €40 with beer.

Lodging

A Stadtbad, or public bathhouse starting in 1902, this ornate building in pretty Prenzlauer Berg became a hotel in 2016. Hotel Stadtbad Oderberger (Oderberger Strasse 57; +49 (30) 780 089 760; www.hotel-oderberger.berlin; doubles from 117 euros per night) has 70 rooms, five suites and two apartments. Rooms have oak floors, TVs and coffee makers. The bathrooms have rain-shower heads. The handsome in-house restaurant, housed in a former thermal power station, cooks up German dishes with modern flair and offers a fair number of vegan and vegetarian options. And don’t forget your swimming suit. The original pool is now the hotel pool.

Ostel (Wriezener Karree 5; +49 (30) 2576 8660; www.ostel.eu; doubles from 42 euros per night) is an East Berlin-themed hotel near the Ostbahnhof, or East Railway Station, in Friedrichshain. The 36 single and double rooms are, as one would expect, dripping in Communist-era kitsch, complete with groovy, colorful wallpaper and bedspreads. All rooms have G.D.R.-era radios. But be careful! It would be easy to think that the Stasi is secretly listening to you. Some rooms have shared bathrooms.

If you want to go the private apartment rental route, base yourself in pretty Prenzlauer Berg where studios and one-bedroom apartments may cost around €75 per night.

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Ein historisches Stadtbad, wunderbare Instagramer, viel Spaß und jede Menge Bilder – Willkommen zu dem kleinen Rückblick auf unseren ersten Insta-Walk im Stadtbad in der Oderberger Straße, Berlin. Titelbild: @gregorklar An einem milden Novembermorgen luden wir zu unserem ersten Insta-Walk in Berlin ein. Gemeinsam mit dem Hotel Oderberger und der Buchbox! Berlin haben wir mit…

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Nicht weit von unserem Hotel in Frankfurt-Oder entfernt befindet sich eine der außergewöhnlichsten Regionen Deutschlands – das Oderbruch. Die Landschaft ist fast 60 Kilometer lang und nur zwölf bis 20 Kilometer breit und erstreckt sich zwischen Fürstenwald und Oderberg im Nordwesten und Lebus im Südosten. Vielen Menschen ist die Region vor allem durch das Oderhochwasser 1997 im Gedächtnis geblieben.

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                   Explore Berlin – What to Do, See, and Eat?

Berlin is a city that fascinates all kinds of people. No matter if you are an explorer, a music- lover, or a player, Berlin has you covered. It is a city of divergent seasons: long, gloomy winters when residents bundle up in layers to withstand Siberian winds, accompanied by humid summers spent relaxed in parks and alongside the lakes. In stately western Berlin, the extensive avenues are punctuated by shopping malls and Starbucks, beverage shops, entirely different in style to its former-Soviet eastern half, with its mass-produced, pre-fabricated Plattenbau residence blocks.

At Potsdamer Platz, visitors find a global capital city with shimmering glass buildings. But a more transgressive section to the town insists at twilight in the clubs and bars, despite growing property prices. The multiple sides to the city united together in 2019 to commemorate 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

What to do? Plunge into history: Barely 200 meters of the Berlin Wall persists, weathered to the wire, at Niederkirchnerstrasse that marked the boundary between Mitte in East Berlin and Kreuzberg in West Berlin. It’s available to walk the length of it. Rotate your head to see the Topography of Terror, a museum established in the erstwhile headquarters of the Nazi covert police, where a free exhibition features the most horrifying era of German history. From there, walk north past Checkpoint Charlie and Potsdamer Platz that has been restored since the downfall of the wall with a dizzying quantity of skyscrapers. As you move towards the Brandenburg Gate, look out for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a gloomy figure of coffin-like solid slabs that tourists can walk in between. Wander the museums: There are five museums that jostle for space on Berlin’s Museum Island and attending them all would need more than a day. With a single ticket at €18 (£15), you can choose the highlights: the Pergamon Altar built on the terraces of the acropolis at the Pergamon Museum; the bust of Nefertiti, the Egyptian queen, at the Neues Museum; and the European figure collection at the Bode Museum. However, all are closed on Mondays so take care before leaving for the venue. Explore Berlin Take a dip: If you are visiting in summer, the Badeschiff is primarily a swimming pool on a barge. You can do lengths in turquoise water facing the River Spree. Just wipe off in the sun with a beer and a deckchair on the shore and enjoy the view. also, check the venue listings for formal parties and live harmony. The entry fee is around €5.50.

Where to stay?

In the beautiful northern region of Prenzlauer Berg, a prior public bathhouse has been remodeled into Hotel Oderberger. The baths have been painstakingly reconstructed, with domed ceilings enclosed by magnificent columns. It is quite the place for a morning swim (but be conscious that the guests will have to pay for it). The guest quarters are spacious and modern – some include stairs up to mezzanine bedrooms – and breakfast is a lavish spread of cheese, meat, and fruit with a live waffle-making section for the special pickers. The price ranges from £108.On the west side of the city, Max Brown Ku’Damm has become a favorite brunch spot for locals, with lines around the block on the weekends. The hotel, named after the nearby shopping boulevard, has 70 rooms with beautiful oak floors, white blinds and capricious features such as basketball hoops and Crosley cassette players. The hotel’s happy hour operates between 5-9 pm. Doubles from £54.

Where to eat? Approximately three million individuals of Turkish origin live in Berlin, numerous of them around Kreuzberg. The region has grown into heaven for Turkish food. More latterly it has embraced immigrants from Afghanistan and Syria, some of whom serve at the Kreuzberger Himmel on Yorckstrasse.

Explore Berlin You can rediscover legendary German cuisines at Knodelwirtschaft, a cozy dumpling eatery, on Fuldastrasse in Neukolln. Decide between two, three or four gut-busting cheese, meat, and spinach dumplings served on mutual tables illuminated by candlelight.

Where to grab a drink? Klunkerkranich, a sprawling rooftop bar in Neukolln, is the most competent spot to watch the sunset on pleasant evenings. While the venue gets crowded in the summer, the indoor bar does serve spiked chai and gluhwein in the colder months. Villa Neukolln may look like enough in the daylight, but gaze behind a massive curtain after midnight and you will find a low-lit Art Deco ballroom packed with beautiful bodies loafing on sofas and downing cocktails. The venue also entertains live acts and DJs who perform until dawn.

Where to shop? Vintage shopping swarms in Berlin. At the Dandy Horse, by Gorlitzer Park in Kreuzberg, tracks of vintage attire sit beside a furniture store and a vinyl warehouse. A flea fair takes place in Mauerpark, Prenzlauer Berg, each Sunday. During the daytime, the tourists and locals skim through secondhand furniture, vintage apparel and all style of assets at the market. As dusk overtakes, the park amphitheater packs up for Bearpit Karaoke, a true Berlin highlight. Additionally, on Sundays, a tiny market at Arkonaplatz sells mid-century fittings, enough of it renewed, beside trinkets and vinyl. For costumes, a vintage fair at Griessmuhle runs on the primary Friday of each month from 1 pm till midnight, serving food and live DJs. Germany has been an all-time favorite holidaying destination for a majority of Indian nationals. If you are planning for an upcoming tour to Germany, Feel free to apply for a visa online on our web portal. We will be happy to help.

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Hotel Oderberger

The heart of this hotel is the historic natatorium from 1902, re-opened in 2016. Located in the cosy district Prenzlauer Berg, the building’s substance was widely preserved, hosting the restaurant in the previous heating room and integrating original tiles, windows and doors in the design. The hotel is cooperating with Berlin-based artists, exhibiting their works in the rooms and halls, and has become an extravagant event location offering the swimming pool hall as space for performances and (light) installations.

http://www.hotel-oderberger.berlin/

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36 Hours in Berlin – The New York Times

On Nov. 9, 1989, the East German government made a surprising announcement: It was easing up travel restrictions on its citizens. East Berliners flocked to the nearest border crossings at the Berlin Wall, especially at Checkpoint Charlie, the famed crossing between the divided Berlins. Not long after that, Berliners from the east and west began chipping away at the literal and metaphorical wall that had separated them for nearly three decades, since the Soviet-backed East German government erected the concrete slabs that split the city in two. The Cold War was over. Well, sort of. Today in Berlin you can still go back to that world by eating and drinking in restaurants and bars dedicated to the German Democratic Republic — G.D.R. for short, or D.D.R. in the local parlance — as well as learn about the former East Berlin via fascinating museums, architecture and shops.

Friday

1) 3 p.m. Communists, nudists and dissidents

Ever wonder why East Germans had a proclivity for hanging out in public stark naked? Or what it was like to drive a Trabant — the cult East German-made automobile with a Formica-like Duroplast body — around East Germany in the 1980s? Or what an interrogation room looked like? You can find out at the DDR Museum, a fascinating, immersive, hands-on experience that serves as an excellent introduction to life in East Germany. The museum, which opened in 2006 and is housed in a modern building on the Spree River, recently welcomed its six millionth visitor. Admission: 9.80 euros, or about $10.80.

2) 7 p.m. The ‘People’s’ restaurant

Named for the “People’s Chamber,” the lower house of parliament in the G.D.R., Volkskammer tries to revive East Germany on a daily basis by cooking up gruel for the odd local with a case of “ostalgie” — nostalgia for the old East — and curious tourists willing to punish their palates with hearty slop like Falscher Hase, or counterfeit rabbit: a dense, gravy-smothered meatloaf hiding a hard-boiled egg and cured pork knuckle with kraut. Dinner for two is about €50, including beer or wine. If you can’t stomach Soviet-era cuisine, try nearby Michelberger (in the hotel of the same name), which serves up excellent farm-to-table, uber-seasonal fare such as venison pie or wild boar schnitzel with pumpkin. Dinner for two is about €75, with wine.

3) 9 p.m. Red hangover

Opened in 1992, just three years after the Wall fell, Die Tagung, a bar in the Friedrichshain neighborhood, celebrates the G.D.R. with a sense of humor. The owner, a longtime Friedrichshain resident, scoured a local abandoned train repair complex for former East Berlin-era signs that now grace the walls, along with tapestries bearing the image of Karl Marx, and a large bust of Vladimir Lenin who was, on a recent visit, sporting headphones and aviator glasses. There are also enough red stars and hammer-and-sickle symbols to inspire a collective May Day parade. Imbibe a Russian Cocaine, €3: a shot of vodka that comes with a slice of lemon coated with sugar on one side and coffee grinds on the other.

Saturday

4) 10:30 a.m. A Stalinist stroll

Built on the rubble of World War II, the wide boulevard known as Karl Marx Allee started life as Stalinallee, Stalin Boulevard, but was renamed after Marx in 1961. Between Frankfurter Tor in Friedrichshain and Alexanderplatz — just under two miles — the 300-foot-wide street is lined with monumental, wedding cakelike, Stalinist-style structures, built to be “workers’ palaces,” a place for East Germany to showcase the glories of Socialism. The Italian architect Aldo Rossi called it “Europe’s last great street.” Placards are positioned along the way to explain the history of noteworthy buildings, such as Kino International, a still-working movie theater and a gem of functionalist architecture, and the duel towers, Frankfurter Tor.

5) Noon. Snack break

Named for a popular G.D.R.-era magazine, Café Sibylle is one of the few businesses on the Karl Marx Allee that still exists from the Cold War days. About halfway along the boulevard, the cafe is nicely positioned for a rest. After taking in the permanent exhibition on the evolution of the boulevard, complete with text, photos and household objects from the 1950s and 60s, plant yourself at a table and sip coffee or a beer and graze on a salad or a sausage. The wooden tables and high ceilings invite visitors to stay awhile. Lunch for two costs about €25.

6) 3 p.m. Shop like a Socialist

Good news, comrade! Both ends of Karl Marx Allee — or at least between Frankfurter Tor and Alexanderplatz — are book ended by Humana Second Hand & Vintage shops. The outlet at Frankfurter Tor is the largest secondhand shop in Berlin: four floors of vintage and used duds. The top floor focuses on clothes from the 1950s to the 1990s, and there are often select racks for G.D.R. clothes at either or both locations. If you like your Socialist souvenirs even more kitschy, head to Ampelmann, south of Alexanderplatz, a shop that sells images of the “traffic light man,” an East German symbol that has become iconic since the fall of the Wall, on everything from golf balls to coffee mugs to T-shirts.

7) 5:30 p.m. Walking the Wall

The East Side Gallery in Friedrichshain; the long stretch of the Berlin Wall that is clad in colorful iconic images; and the Wall Museum near Checkpoint Charlie: These sites all get ample visitors. But the most sobering way to get a sense of what it was like to live in Berlin during the time of the Wall is at the Berlin Wall Memorial in Prenzlauer Berg. This portion of the wall and the harrowing section known as the “death strip” — with its booby traps, armed guards, towers and trenches — allow visitors to see the most preserved swath of the remaining wall complex. Admission is free.

8) 8 p.m. Vodka shots and soljanka

Opened in 1994 and located in the former East Berlin neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg, Restaurant Pasternak serves dishes from around the former Soviet Union, particularly from Russia and Ukraine; many of the options have an Eastern European Jewish bent. The restaurant is named after the Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and author of “Doctor Zhivago,” Boris Pasternak. Start off with a bowl of soljanka, a creamy, dill-spiked soup that has Russian origins, but was one of the most popular dishes in the former East Germany; then move on to sautéed calf’s liver and latkes accented with a spicy apple jam. And don’t forget to have a few shots of the house vodka. Dinner for two, about €85 with wine or vodka.

9) 10 p.m. House party

You could go to the Museumswohnung, a three-bedroom apartment so perfectly preserved you’d almost expect the Stasi, the official East German state security apparatus, to be bugging the place. Or you could spend your Saturday night dancing at Salon zur Wilden Renate, a techno club that took over an abandoned apartment building in Friedrichshain and sort of left things as they were, including 1970s wallpaper, couches and beds. Opening times vary, so check the club website before heading out. Entrance is €10 to €15, depending on the night and event.

Sunday

10) 11 a.m. The lives of others

The Stasi’s main job was spying on ordinary people who were not in line with party policies and values, hauntingly depicted in the 2006 German film “The Lives of Others.” The Stasi Museum is in the agency’s former headquarters in Lichtenberg. The three floors hold hundreds of artifacts, such as bugging devices, hidden cameras and lock picks, as well as placards detailing nearly every aspect of the organization, including the fact that up to 180,000 East German “unofficial informants” were working with the Stasi by 1989. The tour ends on the third floor at a cafe and bar — after the museum, you might need a stiff drink. There are free 90-minute guided tours in English at 3 p.m. on Thursday to Monday. Admission is €8 and the tour is free.

11) 2 p.m. Schnitzel and schlock

PILA is a restaurant on Friedrichshain Volkspark that also bills itself as a museum dedicated to the former East Germany. The interior is bedecked with all manner of G.D.R. minutiae — enough East Berlin flags and portraits of former dear leaders to bring tears to the eyes of those nostalgic for five-year plans and collective farming. This is a place for those craving dishes like schnitzel atop fusilli pasta with a few splotches of ketchup-spiked tomato sauce and plus-size plates of currywurst, which is better than you’d think. Even the light, flimsy forks and spoons are legit G.D.R. throwbacks. Lunch is about €40 with beer.

Lodging

A Stadtbad, or public bathhouse starting in 1902, this ornate building in pretty Prenzlauer Berg became a hotel in 2016. Hotel Stadtbad Oderberger (Oderberger Strasse 57; +49 (30) 780 089 760; www.hotel-oderberger.berlin; doubles from 117 euros per night) has 70 rooms, five suites and two apartments. Rooms have oak floors, TVs and coffee makers. The bathrooms have rain-shower heads. The handsome in-house restaurant, housed in a former thermal power station, cooks up German dishes with modern flair and offers a fair number of vegan and vegetarian options. And don’t forget your swimming suit. The original pool is now the hotel pool.

Ostel (Wriezener Karree 5; +49 (30) 2576 8660; www.ostel.eu; doubles from 42 euros per night) is an East Berlin-themed hotel near the Ostbahnhof, or East Railway Station, in Friedrichshain. The 36 single and double rooms are, as one would expect, dripping in Communist-era kitsch, complete with groovy, colorful wallpaper and bedspreads. All rooms have G.D.R.-era radios. But be careful! It would be easy to think that the Stasi is secretly listening to you. Some rooms have shared bathrooms.

If you want to go the private apartment rental route, base yourself in pretty Prenzlauer Berg where studios and one-bedroom apartments may cost around €75 per night.

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