Berlin Neukölln – Colours like no other.
It’s a really grey and boring looking day today that’s why I was happy to see this colourful mix of street art and advertising posters at S-train station Neukölln this morning. Happy Friday, everyone!!! 😍😊
German efficiency
I loved how the gigantic billion Euro heavy Deutsche Bahn corporation fixed a leaking fire hydrant. Why spending hundreds when a 10 cent plastic supermarket bag will do the job. It’s also one of the trillions of bags less polluting the planet. We have a clear win-win situation here, friends. Well done Deutsche Bahn. #deutschebahn #respect
Well camouflaged
Can you spot the well camouflaged street observer? 😍
Tonight on TV: Snow!!! 😁
Waiting for the M41 Bus on Sonnenalle, Treptow, Berlin
Contrasts – seen in Mariendorfer Weg, Neukölln
Tree Shadow – Angermünde, Brandenburg
Sunny moment at Eberswalde train station
View of silhouettes and roof of Potsdamer Platz station
Backlid silhouette near Potsdamer Platz
Passengers arriving at Erfurt train station.
Moving Mirror
Man underneath Angermünde train bridge
When the sun becomes the artist (train station Schöneberg, Berlin)
Waiting at train station Schöneberg, Berlin
I love when the sun comes out and makes everything instantly look cinematic. Especially in the winter times when the sun never rises very high and thus creates dramatic background light, silhouettes, shapes and shadows. The perfect conditions for black and white photography. I literally cannot stop taking photos then.
Graffiti on a house wall in Rixdorf area of Neukölln
Dirty corner at Hermannstraße station in Neukölln, Berlin
Having lived in Neukölln a few years I can confirm that it is in many areas a dirty place. A part of me feels it adds to the charme and undergroundy authentic vibe of the more and more hip district in the South West of Berlin. Another part is sad and angry that people chuck their rubbish everywhere disrespecting our environment.
The writing “Neukölln bleibt dreckig!“translates as “Neukölln stays dirty!“ I see it occasionally written on walls in the city; sometimes with Berlin, Kreuzberg etc. instead of Neukölln. I understand it as a angry cry for people who are scared of gentrification which is “cleaning“ up more and more areas and making the rents go up and up and thus taking away the home districts aka Kieze of people who cannot afford to live there any longer.
“Unsere Viertel – Unsere Straßen“ – “Our quarter – our streets“
The question is if these writings will in any way stop the gentrification or if it adds to the area being seen as cool and undergroundy and therefore attracts even more rich, boring people who want to feel cool and undergroundy.
Waiting dog outside Edeka, Panier Straße, Neukölln
Waiting dog at Kaiser’s, Baumschulenweg
Two dog waiting outside a drugstore in Baumschulenweg, Berlin
Here are more photos of my favourite photo series of Waiting dogs.
I saw this on an art studio in the trendy Rixdorf quarter in Neukölln Berlin. It translates roughly as “This is no hip district!“ And a little less directly translated it means: “Fuck off, rich people and hipsters! Leave us alone and our rents low!“ I guess when you have to write a message like that it probably is aleady exactly that – a hip district taken over by rich people, hispsters and high rents.
Work, shop, consume, die – an anarchists message
These are the words sprayed onto the wall of a Lidl supermarket in Baumschulenweg by some Anarchist(s). I guess the Lidl people tried to hide them – but as you can see only very badly.
Travelers and surroundings matched in Angermünde Station.
Look! Everything is blue, orange, white and red. I love it when things line up like that. And only for a few moments in time.
ITCHY EYE 