Summer Berlin

Summer is on its way and we already had a lot of nice sunny days in Berlin this year!
As we would like to inform you an all the things you could and should do and see in Berlin,
now it feels like the right time to start presenting some really cool swimming pools, parks
and other open air activities.
Here is our hot time summer in the city TOP 5:
1. Cool down at the Badeschiff
this is our absolute favorite outdoor swimmingpool in Berlin! Here all the hipsters go, and
you should go there too. The Badeschiff is something unique, you won´t find anywhere
else in Europe. It is a former cargo ship turned into a swimming pool. The ship lies on the
river Spree, so while swimming you are really floating on the Spree. It is a cool meeting
point, cause not only you can swim here, there is also a bar und a beach-like sunning
area. At night there are also very often parties and dj`s.
It is also an oasis for personal welbeing, you can book massages and yoga too.
Here is the link to their website for further information and directions; Das Badeschiff Berlin

2. Park Tiergarten
this is the park where you should go to when the city gets too hot. After visiting all major
sights in the city centre you can easily walk from Brandenburg Gate to this big innercity
oasis! This park has a lot of big old trees, so there is plenty of shade, all the locals go here
for a picnic or to do some sport excersises. You might also witness a class of art students
trying to catch the beautiful sceneries the parc offers.
Since it is such a big park you can also take a bike and cylce your way through it!
3. Open Air Cinema
the open air cinema season has started again!!It is such a joy to watch a film outside in the open air. You can bring your own picnic-basket and drinks.
One of my favorits is the one at volkspark Friedrischhain. When you are here you totally
forget that you are in the big metropolis Berlin.
Make sure to be there on time, there might be quite a que!
Here is a link to the website: open air cinema berlin

4. Summer time is ice cream time
you can find ice cream shops on almost every corner in Prenzlauer berg.
Some of our favorites are: kleine eiszeit, kauf dich glücklich and cuffaro.

5. Go to Kreuzberg!
The gorgeous Viktoriapark is fantastic for a late afternoon walk. From the plateau you
have a fantastic view over kreuzberg. A lot of people come here to relax and chat with
friends over a beer. After checking out the park you can try the delecious vegetarian food at
the Seerose restaurant. You will find a lot of nice bars over at Bergmannstrasse. Enjoy a
hot summer night in Kreuzberg!

for an affordable place to sleep in Berlin check out the EastSeven Hostel in Prenzlauer Berg. Hope to see you all soon!

karneval der kulturen (c) daniela incoronato

Hura, it’s Carnival again! warum ist der Karneval die beste Party in Berlin? Dazu könnte ich unglaublich viel schreiben aber ich werde mich aufs Wesentliche beschränken.
Bei der Masse von Menschen ist es wirklich erstaunlich wie friedlich alles bleibt. Da ist eine halbe Million Menschen Auf den Straßen unterwegs und trotzdem bleiben die Aggressionen aus. Warum das so ist kann ich mir nur mit der Musik erklären. Von überall her erklingen Samba, steeel drum oder andere freudvolle Klänge. Hinzu kommt, dass sich alle verschiedenen Lebensstile Berlins einmal im Jahr treffen um zusammen friedlich und ausgelassen zu  feiern.  Dieser Mix ist einzigartig.


Ob Queere Kultur, Jamaikanische Partygruppen oder Türkische Gruppen, alle treffen sich um hauptsächlich in friedvoller Weise zusammen ihrer eigenen Kultur zu frönen. Vielleicht liegt das Geheimnis eben da. Alle dürfen so sein wie sie sein wollen. Hier gibt es keine Leitkultur die über allem hängt und alle mehr oder weniger gleich machen will. Wo jeder so sein kann wie er will kann ja gar kein Spannung entstehen. So sollte es in einer Stadt sein die weltoffen sein möchte.

Hier meine Favoriten  oder anders ausgedrückt:
10 things to do at the festival

1) unbedingt den Umzug  am Sonntag mitmachen! Sucht euch eine Wagen eurer Wahl aus und versucht den nicht aus den Augen bzw. Ohren zu verlieren

2) am Kottbusser Tor, mitten auf dem Kreisel ein Bier eurer Wahl trinken

3) dieses verdammt leckere jerk chicken direkt vor der Amerika Gedenkbibliothek essen, LECKER!

4) partyalarm hinter dem Horst Krzbg. Das legendäre Killasan Soundsystem wird einmal im Jahr draußen aufgebaut und drückt euch mit den Bässen das gerade gegessene Hühnchen nochmal tiefer rein.

5) parallel dazu, meine Empfehlung : Carnival Weekend Open Air Africa Special at Gretchen.

6) laßt am Sonntag das Fahrrad  oder das Auto am besten stehen. Ihr kommt wahrscheinlich zu Fuß und U-Bahn schneller voran und holt euch keinen Platten; höchstens platte Füße

7) Karneval der Kulturen: das Strassenfest  vom 25. – 28. Mai geht ja manchmal  unter, deswegen hier ncohmal, exclusiv für euch die Zeiten:
Freitag 16 – 24 Uhr
Samstag / Sonntag 11 – 24 Uhr
Montag 11 – 19 Uhr

OK, ich muss zugeben die anderen 3 Punkte müsste ich mir wahnsinnig aus den Fingern saugen. Geht hin, verliert euch und findet neue wundervolle Eindrücke unserer Heimatstadt. Berlin ist nicht nur eine knisternde Partsytadt für Techno und Elekto. Es ist auch eine Oase des Zusammenlebens. Wer behauptet Multikulti wäre gescheitert, der befindet sich gerade im Wahlkampf oder war niemals auf dem Karneval er Kulturen.


Viele Grüße aus der Jugendherberge in Berlin EastSeven!

Prater Beergarten

There is a lot going on in Berlin this weekend, not only this weekend, every weekend! Sometimes it is hard to decide what to do and where to go. Therefore we have put some things together.  Some small ideas to get you on your way!  Hope you have a fantastic weekend!!

1. It is GALLERY WEEKEND!!

if you love exploring the city by exploring its artists, then this is your weekend!
51 galleries, 51 openings, 3 days, 3 nights. feel invited!! From April 27th till April 29.
klick here for a list of galleries that our in: Gallery Weekend

2. Go clubbing on Saturday night!!
For instance you can go to the club night at Berghain/ Panorama bar.
If you are not into techno you can go to the Bassy Club for rock´n roll music!
More info on where to go clubbing you can find in the ZITTY

3. Go to an exhibition!
There are so many interesting exhibitions to choose from, really. One thing you should definitely see is this:
´´ Arrested in Hohenschönhausen“
The exhibition displays items from the everyday prison life at the GDR, but also rare testimonies of the resistance of political prisoners. Among the objects is a holed shaver, with which secret messages were transported, as well as a Monopoly game made by the prisoners. Also prison books with hidden finger nail markings and a knife made out of a toothbrush are shown. © Museumsportal Berlin
In addition to this exhibition, you should  take the guided tour through the stasi prison!
Location: Gensler str. 66

4. Go to the ZOO
..something tells me it´s all happening at the zoo….

It is going to be lovely weather this weekend, perfect for a visit to the Berlin ZOO.

The Zoo in Berlin is actually the oldest zoo in entire Germany! It´s the home of around 15000 animals from 1500 different species.

5. Lazy Sunday
On Sunday you should first go for a lazy breakfast at café Entweder Oder at the Oderbergstraße 15.  They have the most delicious breakfast in Berlin, yummy yummy!
After that you can stroll down to street and go to the famous Mauerpark Flea market!
Here you have a full program for the afternoon. You can shop, eat a snack, and also enjoy a broad variety of artists performing in the park.

Afterwards you go to the famous  Prater Beer garten, located in the Kastanienallee, not far away from the hostel! drink a beer, eat a sausage and enjoy!

Berlin Wall Documentation Centre

The EastSeven Berlin Hostel listed up some cool and interesting activities in Berlin!

We want to keep our guests informed about what is cool and cheap to see and do in Berlin. Some of our favorite low cost activities & events in Berlin are listed down below. In case you want to have more tips and recommendations just book a hostel in Berlin @ EastSeven and ask our knowledgeable staff.

1. Berlin Wall documentation center
this documentation center, completely free of charge, is located at the Bernauer Strasse.
It is really closeby our hostel, it is approximately a 10 minute walk. You can ask us at the reception for directions.
At this documentation center they have  a Tower you can climb up, you should have a look, because  from above you have a clearer view over the Berlin wall (small piece maintained) and the death stripe.
Learn more about Berlins History by paying a visit to this informative museum.

2. Kulturbrauerei
This huge complex of night-time hangouts originally housed Berlins Schultheiss brewery for more than 150 years. By night the Culture Brewery turns into a popular meeting point for determined drinkers, eager to explore the buildings wealth of bars, clubs, cafes and restaurants, or just hang out in the huge courtyard.
3. Dr. pong
the table tennis bar in Berlin. don´t think it is a sports bar  because it ain´t. A lot of youngsters meet here to get together! There is nothing more fun than playing table tennis with over 20 people at once! Beside that there are dj´s playing great electronic music! It is a great hangout!
4.  You enjoy drinking a glass of fine wine? Go to the Weinerei!
great cozy place, it´s mainly students you will find here. getting together to drink really
great wine and philosophize in a relaxed living room-feel atmosphere.
The concept of the Weinerei is quite unique. You ´buy´ a glass, for one euro, and then you
can fill and refill it as often as you like. Also there are little snacks the accompany the
wine. when you leave you can pay whatever you think it was worth.
Don´t go here too late, when the wine is out, it’s over and out!!
Location: Fehrbelliner Straße 57
5. White Trash Fast Food
This is  a famous and legendary rock club. The name already implies it; they also have a fast food restaurant.
Serving the most delicious burgers & fries I have ever had. I can recommend their vegetarian burgers too!
What else to expect at the White Trash, great live music & a great Rock´N´Roll atmosphere!!

6. Organic Market @ Kollwitzplatz
This is how you can spend your Saturday like all the locals living in Prenzlauer Berg. Strawling over the market, buying some things to eat, drinking some coffee or even champagne. At this market, everything is possible! You can even buy clothes and jewelry here, also there are often musicians standing at the ends of the market, playing their songs!! Always a great atmosphere here!!
7.Mauerpark Fleamarket
if you are staying over the weekend you absolutely can´t miss out on the Mauerpark
fleamarket. Held every Sunday from 7 till 16 it is the place where hip & young Berlin and
Berlin-visitors get together. Not only looking for bargains, also it is a social happening where
friends meet over a bratwurst, or watching one of the many spontaneous concerts from
musicians coming from all over the globe.

8.THE BERLIN-HOHENSCHöNHAUSEN STASI MEMORIAL OLD STASI PRISON
The site of the main remand prison for people detained by the former East German Ministry of State Security (MfS), or ‘Stasi’, has been a Memorial since 1994. Since the vast majority of the buildings, equipment and furniture and fittings have survived intact, the Memorial provides a very authentic picture of prison conditions in the GDR and gives another view of the divided Berlin.
Tours of the prison are usually led by former inmates, who provide first-hand details on prison conditions and the interrogation methods employed by the GDR’s Ministry of State Security (MfS).
It is only possible to view the extensive prison complex on a official guided tour as Visitors require detailed guidance in order to understand the various sections of the prison.
Public tours every Saturday and Sunday, every hour from 10am to 4pm in various languages, but better call ahead to ask at what time it is in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Danish or Norwegian…
Phone Visitor’s Service: Phone: +49 – (0)30 – 98 60 82-30
Admission:
Regular fee 5,00 Euro, concessions*) 2,50 Euro, Students 1,00 Euro
*) university students, senior citizens, handicapped persons, Berlincard-holder
How to get there:
Take the Metro U2 from the Hostel and go 2 Stops to Alexanderplatz. From here you take the Tram M5 to the stop “Freienwalder Strasse”. The Memorial is then about a 10 minute walk down Freienwalder Strasse in Genslerstraße 66.

9.  SACHSENHAUSEN MEMORIAL AND MUSEUM

When visiting Berlin, you should visit some historical sites aswell. for instance the sachsenhausen concentration camp. It’ s not going to be a fun trip, but you will learn so much more about the terrible second world war and its victims.
Opening Hours
15 March until 14 October: daily 8:30 – 18.00
15 October until 14 March: daily 8:30 – 16:30
Entry is for free.

10. Viktoriapark Kreuzberg
Viktoriapark is one of Berlin’s oldest and prettiest parks and offers a great view from the top of Kreuzberg. Have a delicious and cheap vegetarian lunch at Seerose (Mehringdamm 47) and then have a coffee or some ice cream at one of the plenty cafes in Bergmannstraße. Kreuzberg/Viktoriapark @ U-Mehringdamm.

Have fun exploring Berlin without spending too much money!! Hope to welcome you soon!!!

ITB Berlin

Staying in Berlin during this time? Then pay a visit to the ITB Travel Trade Show.
At the ITB you will find information on everything that has to do with traveling. You name it they have got it. From information on  accommodation in Berlin or elsewhere to tour operators, from popular destinations to new booking-systems.
The promoters at the ITB will show you how travelers can make the most out of their vacation. It offers visitors to tour the world in only a couple of hours. If you don´t have any holiday plans yet, visit the trade show and plan your perfect holiday here and now.
Why pay a visit to the ITB? There are hundreds of reasons for visiting this world leading travel show, really! For instance it provides unique opportunities to benefit from the outstanding leading think tank of global tourism and of course it can provide you with business ideas or individual holiday plans!
The ITB is the place to be for trade-visitors. It offers a terrific opportunity for business people to meet business partners and to do business as well. This is the time and the place to learn about new trends, explore new concepts and cooperation possibilities. See how other business partners present their businesses, and get inspired!
But beside this, the ITB gives the visitor an unique chance to explore and discover the world within a couple of hours. How good is that! It will help you prepare your holiday in a perfect way!
The ITB has more than 170000 visitors, including 108000 trade visitors and over 10000 exhibitors from 180 different countries! Exhibitor sales of about 6 billion Euros and an exhibitor satisfaction rate of 92 percent are evidence enough that supply and demand meet at the right place. ITB is the leading B2B Platform of all tourism industry offers.
At the ITB there is a separated hall reserved solely for the following subcategories of traveling:  Youth travel, Ecotourism, Adventure travel, economy accommodation and travel for disabled people.

Now you can imagine how big this trade show is! There is so much to see and learn. Luckily the exhibition area is clearly structured, divided into geographical aspects and market segments. The Messe Berlin is a well experienced exhibition ground, and therefore everything is organized in a professional way. But if you want to prepare yourself before going, maybe you want to check out a map of the exhibition ground, and also find more detailed information on the ITB 2012 just have a look at their website: KLICK HERE.
Other things you will find at the ITB are for instance: Training and Employment in Tourism, wellness, Travel technology, culture tourism and wellness.

Opening hours for Trade Visitors daily from 10am till 6pm. A one day pass costs 36€, but if oyu buy the day pass online in advance you will save a little money, it presell it costs 30€.
We wish you a lot of fun at the ITB! If you need help with how to get there just come ask us at the EastSeven Berlin Hostel reception!!

Berlin

Here is our personal Top 5 of things to do in Berlin at the Weekend!

1. Berlinale Festival!

This year it is already the 62nd edition of the Berlinale international Filmfestival. The Festival starts on Wednesday the 9th of February and will go for 10 days.
In these 10 days their will be 395 new films broadcasted, all of this films are world premiers!! And of course a lot of filmstars will visit the German capitol!!

To view the festival programm klick here
For more detailed information klick here.

2.Klubnacht – Blueprinted Berlin at Berghain/Panorama Bar  //Saturday the 11th of February//

The most legendary club in Berlin. Go here for a good night of clubbing!!

Line-up /
Berghain – Blueprinted Berlin
23:59 h – 05:00 h DVS1
05:00 h – 06:00 h O/V/R (live)(Ruskin & Regis)
06:00 h – 09:00 h James Ruskin
09:00 h – 12:00 h Sigha
12:00 h – End Marcel Dettmann

Panorama Bar
23:59 h – 04:00 h Clé
04:00 h – 05:00 h Blondes LIVE
05:00 h – 09:00 h Bok Bok vs Jam City
09:00 h – 12:00 h Thomas Schumacher

Sonntags
12:00 h – 15:00 h Mano Le Tough
15:00 h – 18:30 h Ed Davenport
18:30 h – 22:00 h Oliver Deutschmann
22:00 h – 01:00 h Magda
01:00 h – End Nick Höppner

3. Berlin Underworlds!!! Descend with us …

Tour 1 Galerie

Experience the history of Berlin from an unconventional perspective! Since 1997, the Berlin Underworlds Association has been offering regular tours into some of the most important underground structures in the city. Although the majority of our tours are in or near the Gesundbrunnen station in the north of Berlin, we also offer tours in several other subterranean complexes that are otherwise not publicly accessible.

http://berliner-unterwelten.de

4. Live Music at Bassy Cowboy Club
On Saturday the 17th of February The Mokkers + The Purcells (Garage, Rock’n'Roll, Rockabilly, Postpunk)
DJ (club): Johnny No (50s & 60s mashed potatoes, rockin’ soul, garage-beat, rock’n'roll, rockin’ blues)
DJ (lounge): Mohair Sam (wild rock’n'roll, pounding blues, obscure garage, southern soul, new orleans r’n'b)

The Mokkers sind eine All-Girl-Band aus Berlin. Seit ihrer Gründung im Jahre 2007 spielen sie sich beeinflusst vom Sound der 60er Jahre von der Garage hinauf in die Herzen dieser Stadt. Doch nicht nur Garage, sondern auch andere Genres wie Rockabilly, Blues und Postpunk inspirieren die vier Mädchen. Handgemacht, tanzbar, charmant.

The Purcells:
Going into pop 60’s, psychedelic direction lead by inspired melodies, The Purcells deliver powerful rock’n’roll on any of their appearance and laid down on the vinyl, 9 of their gems, as a Mini-Album dealing with love issues, smell of females, generation gaps, wet dreams, romanticism, hard times, guess games and wonder cats kingdom.

5. Visit the Neue Nationalgalerie
Following Exhibition is on from now till- Late 1. Quarter 2013
Divided Heaven.
1945 – 1968. The Collection. Neue Nationalgalerie

After ‘Modern Times. The Collection 1900-1945′, the second instalment in the showing of the National Gallery’s collection of 20th-century art will go on display in November 2011.

Germany’s ‘economic miracle’ and the building of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Crisis and Vietnam War, Sputnik and Apollo, Kennedy and Mao-stark contrasts, entrenched positions and clear fronts mark the eventful years between 1945 and 1968. Fine art from this period was significantly influenced by the atmosphere of the ‘Cold War’ and the political ideologies connected with it. In art, two major paths essentially separated East and West, the figurative and abstraction. The West held aloft the open structure of abstract or ‘informal’ art as a symbol of freedom. And it was certainly no coincidence that the pop art that followed it arose in the major capitals of the West, where the phenomena of mass production and a rising tide of consumer culture were everywhere to be seen. In the Eastern Block, by contrast, socialist realism became the prevailing trend and a defining basis for all developments in the art that came after it. In all of this, the individual became the point by which all things were measured, artists made the ‘human condition’ the core focus of their work.

Under the title ‘Divided Heaven’ (echoing the novel by Christa Wolf), the New National Gallery introduces us to the key figures from this epoch. In its focus, however, the exhibition deliberately looks beyond barriers, geopolitical and artistic, and concentrates instead on universal artistic ideas, held by both camps at once. At the heart of ‘Divided Heaven’ stand the international disparities: the juxtaposition of styles and art forms, the contemporaneity of the non-contemporaneous.

The exhibition is sponsored by the Sparkassen Finanzgruppe..

 
Enjoy your visit to Berlin! Love from the youth hostel in Berlin, EastSeven!!!

© Vibek Raj Maurya

 Transmediale 2012 in Berlin, from 31/1 till 5/2. When everything fails;

Incompatibility is the condition arising when things are not working together. Given the current worldwide proclamations of crisis, be they political, financial, technological or environmental, it may seem as if incompatible elements and situations are everywhere, that everything is failing. Ironically, it is the supposedly ever-more compatible media-scape, where everything connects, that render such crises instantly visible. This raises the question if connective media and all-present data collection are even complicit in the production of crisis itself? Where do incompatibilities arise and how are they integrated in a world-order built on the paradox that it is predicated on convergence, but is in fact also constantly leading to divergence?

These are among the difficult questions we aim to tackle at transmediale 2012. With the theme in/compatible, the festival probes the productive and destructive sides of incompatibility as a fundamental condition of cultural production. To be in/compatible means to refuse a quick return to business as usual. It means to instead dare an investment in the unusual: aesthetic, ambiguous and nervous expressions of politics and technology that are contingent with the dark sides of network culture.

The too old and the too new are two sides of the same coin: nothing ever works perfectly.

Since years we have heard about the coming “promised land” of convergent technology, culture and economy as proclaimed by new media entrepreneurs, neo-liberal economists and development experts. Instead of a smooth operation, it is increasingly clear that processes of convergence bring about new tensions in everyday life,economy, politics and technology. Tensions and states of crisis are not contradictory to convergence which is instead a process that should be understood as dependent on the production of the incompatible.

“The media age proceeds in jerks, just like Turing’s paper strip,” Friedrich Kittler wrote, and in this he could just as well have been talking about technological development in general where the production of incompatibilities is central to having any development at all.

The simultaneous monumental failure and global ubiquity of technology seems to move us beyond the polarity of utopia and dystopia. Instead we are entering the blurred environments of the unadapted, monstrous and “uncorporated”. The increasingly unclear tension-states between open and closed, freedom and control, idealistic and commercial are giving rise to a new kind of “techno-cultural uneasy”. The in/compatible in this context is a singular moment of transversal reflection. Artists, hackers and tinkerers engage the imperfect nature of technology. They give it a cultural shape, developing a modular reflexivity that responds to the ever-changing social and economical terrains of the networked world.

transmediale 2012 is an in/compatible being, moving not necessarily forward.

More than a failed operation, incompatibilities lie at the heart of the governance of the inherent differences in network culture. This means that the incompatible is not the outside of networks but it is an internal and constant state of disruption which is necessary in order to enable the “open” state of a never completed system. Capitalism evolves according to the principle of “creative destruction”, as Joseph Schumpeter once formulated it. Allowing for incompatibility is central to the capitalist logic of always being “open to business”, the constant integration of new areas of production. But this does not necessarily mean that incompatibility always leads to co-optation. The in/compatible moment produces a gap in capitalist production, a temporary moment of stasis which may be used to reflect on where we are going, if anywhere at all, and on what conditions.

As an in/compatible being, transmediale 2012 highlights projects and cultural phenomena that saviour this stop in the incessant flow of things and posits it as a moment of tension that allows for a redefinition of our initial terms of engagement. The in/compatible being is one that moves with the particular rhythms of this tension, but not necessarily forward. Contrary to the fear of the incompatible, so prevalent in the age of cloud-computing, the festival raises the question of what happens when incompatibility is brought to the fore rather than hidden away in the dark underbelly of digital culture?

image: Photos of e-waste found on Flickr (2009) by Vibek Raj Maurya
© Vibek Raj Maurya

Text: Transmediale.de
Klick here to view the Programm

If you are planning on visiting the Transmediale and still looking for accommodation in Berlin, don´t look any further! We are a nice and clean hostel in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg and we offer a 10% discount for Transmediale Visitors.  In order to get the discount all you need to do is make a booking through our website and at check in mention the code word TRANSMEDIALE!  We are looking forward to welcome you!!

Stasi Prison (c) Sulamith Sallmann

Pay a visit to the former Stasi Prison in Berlin Hohenschönhausen, and learn more about the GDR times.

The Stasi Prison Memorial is always worthwhile a visit. You need to keep in mind that you can only visit on a tour. You will be guided through the prison building and outside areas. You will hear stories, sometimes from firsthand, because some of the guides have stayed at the prison themselves.

It is an unique opportunity for you to learn more about the Berlin History while being at a uniquely remained historical sight. A lot of the old furniture is still there, so it offers a really good view of how it was, and what it looked like.

When you get in a sort of creepy feeling comes over you, history gets more lively when you not only read about it but when you really visit the places where it all happened. I got  a really shivery feeling at some of the stories that had been told during the tour.

Thousands of political prisoners passed through this jail, almost all prominent figures who where opponents of the GDR – regime where held prison at Hohenschönhausen.

The location of the Stasi Prison, was in a strictly hermeneutic sealed area, in a military district. Before the prisoners where transported to the prison they where blindfolded an put into a van. Driving and driving for hours and hours in circles, just in means to disorientate the prisoner. As they finally arrived at Hohenschönhausen they had absolutely no clue that they where still in Berlin. To disorientate the prisoners was one of the many methods  the stasi used to get information from the inhabitants of the stasi prison!

This area never appeared on any map and was kept very secretly.

Follow this link for a map of the historical location.

For opening hours: you can check their website for further details and to get information on the various exhibitions that are being held.

Besides the tours through the building they also have an exhibition space, for permanent and temporary exhibitions. All exhibitions encourage and stimulate critical reflection on the forms and consequences of political persecution and suppression under the communist dictatorship.
Opening hours for the exhibitions, daily from 9am till 6pm. There is no entrance fee so you can visit the exhibitions for free!
To check which exhibitions are currently on, follow this LINK

English speaking tours are on every Wednesday and Saturday at 2.30 pm. Tours in German are on more frequent, from Monday till Friday at 11am, 1 pm and 3pm, and on Saturday, Sunday and Holidays every hour between 10am and 4pm.
The cost of the tour is 5€, if you are a student you pay 2,50€.
Most of the tours are being guided by a contemporary witness or a historicist.

Here some information on how to get to Hohenschönhausen, from the EastSeven Berlin Hostel.
Also a map: klick here
To get there you first take the U2 from Senefelderplatz, in direction Ruhleben, get off at Alexanderplatz. From Alexanderplatz you take the M5 in direction Zingster Strasse. You get out at the stop Freienwalderstrasse. From here you can walk there.
If you need help with how to get there, just come ask us at the hostel in central Berlin, EastSeven!

Berlin

Joyfull partying in Berlin! Just read our insider tips:

As we are always very concerned about our guests, we want to keep you posted on the coolest parties this weekend in Berlin. Some of the coolest clubs like Berghain and Tresor are listed up with fantastic parties. Read on and make sure to be in Berlin this weekend!!

A thing you need to know, to make your party night perfect: Clubs in Berlin usually open around midnight, don´t go to early, than you will find an empty dancefloor! Rather go to some nice bars and pubs to warm up! The night is young and in Berlin you can really party till you drop !

1.Klubnacht – P.A.S Record Release Party at Berghain/Panorama Bar: This Saturday!!

Berghain is THE most legendary club in Berlin!

The party starts at midnight!
Here is the address:

Am Wriezener Bahnhof; Friedrichshain; 10243 Berlin
Damage: 12 Euro
Line-up
Klubnacht – Planetary Assault Systems Rec Release – The Messenger
Shifted
Planetary Assault Systems (live)
Norman Nodge
James Ruskin

Panoramabar
Matthew Styles
Derrick Carter
Luke Solomon
Chris Duckenfield (Swag)

2. Magnet Club
A cool club that comes with great party nights. Indie rock and electro music!
The club is located close to a lot of nice smaller bars! Our advice is to go to a couple of bars, to warm up first, and then go to the club for a good dance!

3. Gretchen, a brand new CLUB!!

PINK-PONG NIGHT
feat. 5 YEARS THE SEXINVADERS

The club is divided into two separate locations, BOX 1 and BOX 2, with each their own LINE UP:

BOX1
Fukkk Offf (Coco Machete) *live*
Schluck Den Druck
(Im Rausch mit Freunden) *live*
The Sexinvaders
(Television Rocks Records/Pink-Pong)
Nighty Max (YALL/Razzmatazz Barcelona/ES)
Noise Up (YALL/Razzmatazz Barcelona/ES)
Luke Redford (Streetparade/CH)
Ryan Riot (Streetparade/CH)
Dä Kneter (Yes Techno/CH)
Digitate (Pink-Pong)
Masaje (Stuttgart Kaputtraven)
Dee Clit vs Moritz Beck

BOX2
The Stereo Youth (Pink-Pong/CH)
Frag Maddin (Pink-Pong)
Edwar Ean (Pink-Pong)

Visuals:
Vblaster (YALL/Razzmatazz Barcelona/ES)
Montage Sauvage (Pratersauna Wien/AT)

4.WHITE TRASH FAST FOOD

start your Saturday night with awesome FAST FOOD!! The best burgers in town. Even the vegetarian Burgers are TOP!
Afterwards go dancing in the diamond lounge, it´s the white noise club!

Programm for this Saturday:

THE EARLY SHOW live: EGOTRONIC (Elektropunk – Berlin) RELEASEKONZERT ZU “MACHT KEINEN LÄRM” at the Diamond Lounge

22:00h

live: RICHMOND FONTAINE (Americana/Country/Rock – US) + Dolorean (solo) at the Restaurant
+ DJ MIGNON (Rock/Metal – US)

22:00h

WHITE NOISE CLUB at the Diamond Lounge

5. CLUBBING @ TRESOR

A truly famous club, Tresor, located close to  Staion Jannowitzbrücke, in a huge old fabric hall!
This Saturdayit is  Partysan Night, doors open at midnight!
GLOBUS:     Solee (Parquet Recordings)
Marco Fender (Supdub Records)
Andy Kohlmann (Lordag Records)
Danilo Schneider (Enough, Brouqade)
Fred Brumme (Partysan)

TRESOR:     Djane Crusty (Crusty Sounds)
Felix Würz (Partysan)
DJ Tuulz (Partysan)

In the years-long tradition of our lengthy friendship and cooperation with the mighty Partysan crew, we welcome them once again in our home to push some musical limits, bring your body to new dancing dimensions and as usual, break through genres and styles with a program that offers something for everyone’s taste. The night holds very special delights on the Globus Floor: the esteemed Parquet Recording chief  Solee aka Normen Flaskamp; plus Marco Fender, Andy Kohlmann, Danilo Schneider and Fred Brumme. Making your way downstairs and through the tunnel, you will recognize the Crusty Sounds of Djane Crusty and two Partysan residents Felix Würz and DJ Tuulz rockin’ the basement walls to the maximum, creating a Saturday night atmosphere of pure techno magic à la Partysan – brought to you by Tresor.

6. Klub der Republik
Dance Dance Dance! Dj´s Knueppel & Kabolz!

Disco Wave House Tech 70´s to now!

This club is within walking distance from the EastSeven Berlin Hostel! It has a real GDR FLAIR.  Ask our staff at the reception for directions !

7.Let´s Just Pretend It´s Summer @ LIDO
LIVE MUSIC FOLLOWED BY A GREAT DANCE NIGHT!!

I HEART SHARKS
SAFARI
KINKY WHITE HORSE
DJs
MIT (Coop)
MASHPIT (Kuschelweich Records)

8. We Don’t Stop at Golden Gate

Line-up /
Joel Alter
Magit Cacoon
James Blonde
Big Timer
Promoter /
Sweat Lodge
Joel Alter (Room With A View/Kontra Music)
Magit Cacoon (Girl Scout/Sweat Lodge)
James Blonde (MBF/Falkplatz)
Big Timer (#%*^##%^/^^$$^&)
Say No More…

Location: Golden Gate, Dircksenstrasse 77; Mitte; 10178 Berlin

9.3000° Community Service at MIKZ
@ MIKZ: Revalerstrasse 99; Friedrichshain; 10245 Berlin

Line-up /
The Glitz (Voltage Musique/ Upon You)
Mollono.Bass (3000°/ Acker Rec.) *live*
Sebo & Madmotormiquel (Bachstelzen/ Ursl)
HYPNOREX (Sportbrigade Sparwasser)
Toby Dreher & Sm.art (Acker Rec./ 3000°) *live*
Astma (Reclaim the Beats/ Community Service)
German Lachs (Waterkant Souvenirs/ HRO)
NICK HANSEN (3000°)
WHO:BE (Golden Gate/ Community Service)
COMMANDER LOVE (3000°)

10.  Kill all Hipsters! Party and Live Music at LEVEE!

Two live bands and great dj´s afterwards

live :

Lyre Le Temps (F) //

http://www.myspace.com/lyreletemps

ROA (RO)

http://www.myspace.com/roaband

&

DJ Set by Arnold Scheepmaker

(Nl/Kill All Hipsters)

&

DJ Set by Almost Tropical

(Motor FM/White Noise Club)

Enjoy your weekend in Berlin!!

For a nice place to stay in Berlin come to the EastSeven Berlin Hostel!!

Autumn in Berlin

don´t sit still, move your ass!! It´s gonna be a perfect weekend, this weekend from Friday the 14th till Sunday the 16th!!

Our recommendations for a windy and rainy weekend! The EastSeven Berlin Hostel TOP 10!!!
1. If it´s a rainy day go visit some Museums!!

Check out the Museum Island where you can find the Pergamon Museum, The Old Museum, the old national gallery and the Bode Museum. If you are up for more than 2 museums, buy a museum daypass, that will safe
you some money! Also worth a visit is the Berlin Cathedral, located also on the  Museum Island.
2. Check out LIVE MUSIC at JOE`S BAR
This small bar is just around the corner. It´s great for enjoying live music, in an intimate
atmosphere. On Saturday night you can go here to experience some nice indie-pop music.
Jules Not Jude is playing!!
Check: www.joesbarberlin.com/
3.Go to a cool local BAR!

Another great small local bar, located not far from the EastSeven Berlin Hostel is the
FIRE BAR, Krausnickstr. 5 , 10115 Berlin. Always a great stop for dancing and drinking.
Expect music from rock´n´roll to electro!!
4.Festival of lights
This is a highlight, every autumn again. All major buildings and Sights are being
illuminated in the most fantastic manners. It is at these nights, that you can catch a lot of
hobby-photographers strawling throuhout the city making fantastic pictures, experimenting
with light. This is ofcourse for every tourist the opportunity to make an unique picture of for
instance brandenburg gate, to show your family and friends at home. They will be
impressed .
5. Autumn is the season for crazy parties, how about this one on Saturday night, October 15th:
Fountain Of Youth at Stattbad Wedding
@ Gerichtstrasse 65; Wedding; 13347

BerlinLine-up /
Shaun Reeves
Konrad Black
Rampa
&ME
Alexkid
Evan Baggs
Flowing
MikIX The Cat
Jon Hester
Ingo Gansera (Exersice One)
+ special guests FTWK
Promoter /
Fountain Of Youth
SOMEWHERE among the deepest forests in the most distant corners of the earth there is
a fountain. This is not your ordinary fountain, the legend says that it carries magical water
of mystical powers. Wondrous things are said to occur to one that drinks from it.
On October 15th, we invite the fine society to come join our joyful second installment, this
time within the labyrinths of Stattbad, and have a sip from the legendary Fountain Of
Youth. Who knows what magic waters the Fountain will carry this time…
Visualartists:
Karges Land
Felix the Cat
PERFORMANCE ART in the bathtub room:
“NIGHTENTITY UNLIMITED”
Lukubration von Bernd Damovsky
6. Ai Weiwei in New York – Photographs 1983-1993
from 15 October 2011 to 18 March 2012

@ Martin Gropius Bau

7. Hand Made Supermarket
This is the perfect alternative to sunday fleamarkets. Its indoors, so in case of a rainy
cloudy day, perfect to be inside. This is where creative Berlin presents its hand made stuff.
This sunday from 11-18pm

8. Live Music, singer-songwriter KINA GRANNIS is performing her songs live in LIDO CLUB
unique opportunity to check out this new talent from the states. During here Germany visit,
she is only playing in Berlin und in Kölln.
Kino got famous through youtube. Her new album is also available on youtube so check it
out !!
after her performance, stay around, theres the coolest rock music dance party in town!
Check: www.lido.de/
9.GO ON and do your own pub crawl!!
it is so easy to do, you don´t need to go on an organized pub crawl just follow the following
steps and your night will be a night to never forget:
1. check out the eastseven hostel lounge to gather some peops to join you!
2. choose a particular neighbourhood/street/area for the crawl. ofcourse you can also hop
neighbourhoods but its easier not to.
3. go from pub to pub, discover new pubs, or go with the great tipps of the eastseven staff
members
4. That’ s all it takes, easy, isn´t it?!! Njoy!
10. Hangover breakfast/brunch. Take your time and enjoy breakfast or brunch.

Breakfast in Berlin is usually possible till 5pm! So no need to get up early . A really nice place for
breakfast, close to the hostel, is the cafe EntwederOder, at Oderbergerstraße 15.

That´s all for now, enjoy the weekend in Berlin!!