The twenties are connected to Berlin like no other decade.
Myths and legends surround the “Sin Babel” and continue to shape our image of Berlin today. The success of Volker Kutscher's books and the series “Babylon Berlin” about Commissioner Gereon Rath show just how fascinating the last years of the Weimar Republic are. Confusingly fast-paced, liberating and frightening, witty and eerie, brilliant and ominous: those not for every “Golden Twenties” were full of contrasts. Come with us on a journey back in time to Berlin in the twenties, in keeping with the series “Babylon
Our city tour takes you to original locations of the time, such as Rosa Luxemburg-Platz with the Babylon Cinema, the Admiral Palace, the Newspaper District, Kurfürstendamm, the Shell House and Alexanderplatz. The period ranges from the proclamation of the Republic to the end of the Weimar Republic. How did the November Revolution go and who suffered from the bloodmay? Where was Muscle-Adolf's territory and how did the ring clubs work? Where were corpses publicly displayed? What remains of the famous variety shows? Who was the secret ruler of the “Red Castle”? And how did the poorest of the poor in the metropolis live? We drive through prestigious Berlin as well as former working-class districts and dive deep into the atmosphere of the Weimar Republic
.During the tour, we play fascinating film clips on large monitors on the bus. Josephine Baker, Marlene Dietrich, Friedrich Ebert, Ernst Gennat appear on the monitors, unknown film documents inspire,
and Swing and Charleston can be heard.Come with us on a journey back in time to Berlin's most legendary era!