52 Stories: #11 Great thought provoking monuments
The Soviet memorial, this is the place Victor likes to think back to when he thinks of Treptow-Köpenick. In his very first week in Berlin, back in 2006, he read in his travel guide that the Soviet memorial existed. And since his first time was all about getting to know his new district, his new home, Victor set off on a journey to various places in Berlin to familiarize himself with them. "I was amazed by this place," were his first thoughts. After almost 15 years Victor still likes to come...
Where There's A Will There's A Way
The month of Ramadan, which has a high spiritual value, is welcomed with great excitement every year by Muslims all over the world. Ramadan is known as the month when the Holy Qur'an, the book of Islam, began to be revealed in history. Muslims fast every year in this month. People who spend the time from sunrise to sunset without eating and drinking water wait for the evening iftar with patience. Families and friends visit each other in the evening, eat together and pray. This year, there is a...
52 Stories: #10 Build, use and maintain bridges
José Carlos originally from Guatemala, has lived in Germany for 10 years and for 9 years in Berlin Treptow-Köpenick! According to the Maya calendar, water is his element. The water gives him the feeling of "freedom", it calms him and often helps him to order his thoughts. All his favourite places in Tre-Kö are on the water, whether it is the riverbank with its cafés or the carp pond in Treptower Park. In the evening he also likes to go to the Isle of Youth with its open-air cinema. "I feel...
52 Stories: #8 We are emperors at the Kaisersteg
Rabee thinks the Kaisersteg is really great. No matter if you go for a walk or just sit there and look at the river Spree. He also likes to go with his friends or neighbours for a drink in one of the localities around the Kaisersteg. Especially in summer he spent many fun evenings there with his friends . Not far from the Kaisersteg is the pub "Arkadasch". Which translated means "friend". This year he celebrated his birthday there with his friends. Rabee gets on very well with the owner, so he...
52 Stories: #9 No dead spot in multi cultural Oberschöneweide
6 years ago N. moved with her daughter from Bavaria to Berlin.They knew no one here. Her great luck was that she came to Berlin because of her work and was therefore able to quickly build up a social network. Another luck is that she can work and live in the same neighbourhood and as a single mother, this is a great advantage. In the beginning she didn't like being in Schöneweide so much. "The reputation of Schöneweide was confirmed at first, ... but I notice that it is becoming more...
52 Stories: #7 Clean and Quiet
Salah runs a grocery store in Schöneweide together with his son and finds it very nice here. Although there is a lot going on here, it is quiet and orderly. He visited Treptower Park once and it was not very clean there. "People left their dirt everywhere." That's why he doesn't like to spend his time there, but he was impressed by the water and the silence that the water exudes, by the trees and the greenery. Well, that's what makes Treptower Park so beautiful.
