The story of the Spreepark Plänterwald is one of the most ridiculous around Berlin. It was pretty difficult to find entrance up until a year ago — shut down and watched closely by security, it became every photographers challenge to snap a couple of shots of the decaying, rusty games and rollercoasters. The entertainment park in Treptow-Köpenick used to
Berlin surely might be short on many things — public parks are definitely not among them. From vast Tempelhof to our makeshift home in the summer Görlitzer Park, there’s enough green for everyone to get around. And: there’s another one to add to the list, the Gleisdreieck Park. I’d never been there before as it only opened
What is it like to step inside Görlitzer Park for the first time? Say, for someone who’s from abroad, never been to Berlin before, much less to Kreuzberg. Wouldn’t they think this world has come to an end with all its bizarre craziness? There’s a park, right. With designated bottle deposit racks (though a new thing and
