“You are crazy, my child. You must go to Berlin.”


Franz von Suppe

“ICH HAB NOCH EINEN KOFFER IN BERLIN.”


Marlene Dietrich

“Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin

Deswegen muss ich nächstens wieder hin

Die Seligkeiten vergangener Zeiten

Sind alle noch in meinem kleinen Koffer drin

Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin.”


Marlene Dietrich

“I CAME TO BERLIN TOTALLY FIT AND LEFT AS A WRECK.”


IGGY POP

Excerpt from an interview for the new international issue of ZEITmagazin ‘The Berlin State Of Mind’.

“I THINK DATING APPS HAVE RUINED IT FOR EVERYONE.”

LULU JOHNSON

Author: ‘Dating in Berlin’

“Berlin is a city made up of bars for sad disillusioned people to get drunk in. One never knows how long it is going to remain there. One fancies that it is going very fast. That’s one of the reasons, sure, why I was attracted to the city.”


DAVID BOWIE

Melody Maker, 29 October 1977

“YOU SEE, YOU LEARN FROM ALL YOUR BAD EXPERIENCES, SO THEY’RE REALLY POSITIVE. IT’S ALL PART OF THE COSMIC KNOWING.”


NINA HAGEN

“Berlin was charismatic in the roguish way of a love… a lover who was a little dangerous in ways that didn’t always show, keeping you a bit on edge, a bit in love and endlessly forgiving because he made her feel that she was exactly where she was meant to be… Berlin made you like who you were when you were there, as if everything worth being a part of in the world – all those modern ideas about sex and art and women; all that possibility – was right there, in its dark, beating heart.”


Whitney Otto, ‘Eight Girls Taking Pictures’

“Berlin was charismatic in the roguish way of a love… a lover who was a little dangerous in ways that didn’t always show, keeping you a bit on edge, a bit in love and endlessly forgiving because he made her feel that she was exactly where she was meant to be… “


Whitney Otto, ‘Eight Girls Taking Pictures’