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From the lens Berlin, the capital of Germany.

  • Edutopia Feb 14, 2012 @ 1:27 pm | delete
    I lived in München for a summer as part of a studies abroad program and traveled extensively in Bayern and Austria but could never make it north to Berlin much to my lasting regret. Can't wait to get back to Germany and check out Berlin and the rest of the northern states.
  • DonD Jan 25, 2012 @ 1:12 am | delete
    I have not been to Berlin but it's on my vacation list already. Awesome lense.
  • vincente Jan 11, 2012 @ 8:53 am | delete
    We had an incredible time living in Berlin for 5 years. After reading this leans I want to go back there!
  • coach_moreno Jul 16, 2011 @ 12:18 pm | delete
    Nice lens
  • christopherlee Jul 6, 2011 @ 6:20 pm | delete
    I also love Berlin, will come to see it one day
  • archandha Jul 3, 2011 @ 9:17 am | delete
    I love Berlin - I think, its the greatest city in Germany. I love Cologne, too, but Berlin is my favourite!
  • Padaneis Feb 26, 2011 @ 7:38 pm | delete
    Great lens: very informative but not prolix. And great city: I was in Berlin last summer and I appreciated it very much. Bests.
  • Squidster Feb 18, 2011 @ 1:46 am | delete
    I've been to Berlin a couple of times, once even before the fall of the Wall.There is so much to see; it's a fantastic place to visit. Nice job featuring some of the highlights of this incredible city!
  • Nov 11, 2010 @ 11:37 pm | delete
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    Good luck!
  • VickiSims Sep 9, 2010 @ 10:52 pm | delete
    I was in Berlin in 1994. I had a wonderful time and would love to go back and see it again.
  • southshoretees Jun 2, 2010 @ 1:02 pm | delete
    Berlin looks like a beautiful place. I'd love to visit someday. Excellent work!
  • JoanneOtt May 27, 2010 @ 10:26 pm | delete
    That must have been quite an experience, to have been there when the wall came down. I really like your photos.
  • skiesgreen Apr 17, 2010 @ 7:12 pm | delete
    returned and blessed by an angel and featured in Sprinkled with Stardust

    Norma
  • ulla_hennig Apr 18, 2010 @ 4:41 am | delete
    thanks very much, Norma!
  • Geeve Apr 1, 2010 @ 11:57 am | delete
    Great lens Ulla, another 5*.
    I have lensrolled it to my "What's happening in Berlin", nobody should visit the City without coming here first.
  • DrRichard Mar 23, 2010 @ 10:14 am | delete
    I've been to Germany a couple of times but never made it to Berlin. I'd love to go sometime. 5 stars and favorited!
  • d-artist Mar 13, 2010 @ 11:27 am | delete
    great lens on my birth place!...5*... I enjoyed reading this lens, maybe you would like my lens on the church I was baptized at "Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church" I will lensroll your Berlin lens to mine
  • KimGiancaterino Feb 15, 2010 @ 10:36 pm | delete
    When I was in Berlin the wall was still standing and we went through Checkpoint Charlie to East Berlin for the afternoon. We couldn't take East Berlin currency out of the country and tried to give it away, but no one would take it. My friends and I just left a big tip at a restaurant on our way out. It would be nice to go back now and see how things have changed. Congratulations on your purple star.
  • prosperity66 Jan 29, 2010 @ 9:55 am | delete
    Ouch! I thought I blessed this lens already and just discover that I didn't...
    Berlin just got blessed by a SquidAngel
  • WindyWinters Jan 26, 2010 @ 3:49 am | delete
    Congrats on your well-deserved Purple Star. Thanks for highlighting your favorite sites in Berlin. I would love to visit one day! :)
  • newbizmau Jan 24, 2010 @ 9:52 pm | delete
    I've never wanted to visit Germany so bad. This is a terrific lens.
  • boshemia Jan 22, 2010 @ 9:05 pm | delete
    I'm so glad you were awarded a purple star, I would have hated to miss this lens. I was born in Germany (Stuttgart) but we left when I was seven months old. I now have a 16 year old daughter finishing school there, and my younger two children spend summers there with their father.

    I am planning a trip to Europe, and plan to spent as much time in Germany as we can, getting to know my birthplace once again. So from the bottom of my heart, than you for a glimpse into both my past and my future!!!
  • Kapalbility Jan 21, 2010 @ 11:10 am | delete
    Congratulations for the Purple Star! Happy for ya!
  • AngHoo Jan 8, 2010 @ 6:43 am | delete
    Thanks for sharing... Nice lens...
  • prosperity66 Dec 27, 2009 @ 5:10 am | delete
    I discovered Berlin through a German TV series and wanted to visit the town. Now I just made sure the town really exists. Next step: going to Berlin! I add this on my "to do" list for the upcoming years. Well done, and nice to look!
    Dom.
  • skiesgreen Dec 4, 2009 @ 2:25 pm | delete
    This is a lovely lens and great information, Only got to the southern parts of Germany and missed Berlin, to my regret. Really enjoyed the pictures and the passion that shines through. 4* and fav.

    Norma
  • Jewelsofawe Oct 31, 2009 @ 11:48 am | delete
    I have never been to Germany. Thanks for sharing it with me.
  • Pukeko Oct 29, 2009 @ 8:01 am | delete
    Interesting. I would love to go to Berlin again someday. I was here twice, both time before the wall came down. I can only imagine how different it is today. Great travel lens and blessed by an angel.
  • WordCustard Oct 20, 2009 @ 9:23 am | delete
    This is a really nice Berlin guide, and some interesting book recommendations too to learn more about the city before a visit.
  • Sep 15, 2009 @ 9:06 pm | delete
    My mom is from Germany, yet she never talked about it much. Thank you for this lovely walk through Germany!
  • rzukic Sep 15, 2009 @ 11:40 am | delete
    This is so great lens. I lived in Germany for 7 years (Heidelberg) but never made it to Berlin. I had some friends from Berlin and who knows what the future brings. Maybe I though make it. Thank You for the great lens.
  • Floorance Aug 28, 2009 @ 12:35 pm | delete
    What an incredible lens! I've always wanted to go to Berlin. I took 2 years of German in High School and always wanted to go to Germany just to try out my vocabulary :) Thank you so much for a look into this stunning city!
  • whitemoss Aug 15, 2009 @ 4:40 pm | delete
    What a lovely lens. My youngest son visited Berlin last year and loved it!
    Love the pictures!
  • ulla_hennig Aug 14, 2009 @ 11:56 am | in reply to chefkeem | delete
    thanks for your blessings, chefkeem! And you're always welcome n this wonderful city!
  • chefkeem Aug 14, 2009 @ 11:47 am | delete
    I grew up in Munich, but I spent weeks and weeks in Berlin, visiting my friends and doing business. I've been many times to the former East Berlin. My uncle, Peter Schweitzer, was one of the top architects in charge of the Stalin/Lenin/whatever-it's-called-now Allee.

    It's great to see pictures and stories of the new Berlin here, Ulla. Danke! Blessed heartily by a SquidAngel. :-)
  • JaguarJulie Aug 13, 2009 @ 7:41 am | delete
    I would so love to visit Berlin some day -- you've made it look so inviting!
  • boutiqueshops Aug 13, 2009 @ 6:07 am | delete
    What a beautiful tribute to a beautiful city, Ulla! Thank you for sharing your photos with us with a guided tour around Berlin. An excellent, excellent job! Hope you make many more pages ~ you are gifted!
  • mbgphoto Aug 11, 2009 @ 10:21 am | delete
    Thanks for an interesting lens. I'd love to visit Berlin someday!
  • LoKackl Aug 6, 2009 @ 7:23 am | delete
    Beautiful. Thanks for the alert! Thanks too for your comment about Emily Dickinson! Do you have a favorite poem, yet? Or one you'd like to discuss?
  • MidnightEden Aug 5, 2009 @ 4:09 pm | delete
    Fascinating lens on Berlin, which is one place which I would love to visit.
  • BarbRad Aug 4, 2009 @ 6:33 pm | delete
    I've been to Bonn, to Darmstadt and to some other cities. I have to say that one thing that impressed me about Germany in 1972 was that during a hike up a hill, I used an outhouse clean enough to suit a queen. I have never seen such a thing in the USA. I love German culture and the language, though I've lost most of what I learned of it in college because I've had few people to practice with her. I love seeing how the cities are surrounded by country and that you can tell them apart -- especially from the air. Here in Central and Southern California cities turn into suburbs with very little open country. It's hard to tell where one city ends and another begins.
  • LaraineRose Aug 4, 2009 @ 4:42 am | delete
    You keep adding and it just keeps getting better and better. GOOD JOB! I'll be back to see you again.
  • capriliz Aug 2, 2009 @ 12:50 pm | delete
    I would love to visit Berlin. What history!
  • ulla_hennig Aug 1, 2009 @ 12:43 pm | in reply to LindaJM | delete
    thanks for the blessing, Linda! You can see me smiling all over my face.
  • ulla_hennig Jul 31, 2009 @ 2:48 am | delete
    Thank you all for your kind comments! I am still working on it, so please come back later and check!
  • LoKackl Jul 30, 2009 @ 1:11 pm | delete
    Looks wonderful! And, I bet you are a very interesting, enjoyable person to be around! Now - I know One Person in Germany!
  • LindaJM Jul 29, 2009 @ 9:45 am | delete
    Back before WW2 my father had a pen pal, Hermann... they cut off communication after the war because of the political situation but started writing again in the 1960s. Hermann and his family lived in East Berlin. I exchanged a few letters with Hermann's daughter, Marika, who was my age. My father went to visit them in the late sixties and had to go through Checkpoint Charlie. He brought back home movies of both East Berlin and West Berlin -- an amazing contrast as East Berlin wasn't able to remove all the war rubble and rebuild like West Berlin did. I remember when the wall was finally removed they send a photo of the family crossing into West Berlin and celebrating. Well, thanks for the trip down memory lane and for the update on how the beautiful city of Berlin is doing now! 5* lens... blessed!
  • BevsPaper Jul 29, 2009 @ 6:47 am | delete
    Great lens!
  • momto4 Jul 26, 2009 @ 11:12 am | delete
    Great lens! I have never been to Germany, but it looks like an interesting place to go.
  • Pastiche Jul 22, 2009 @ 9:47 am | delete
    I sent this lens to my mother and she corrected my earlier post - she and her cousins were not able to include a visit to Berlin on their recent trip. I guess they'll need to go next time they're in Germany.
  • AndyPo Jul 21, 2009 @ 8:52 am | delete
    Great lens and pictures. I was in Berlin just a couple of weeks ago. It is indeed a beautiful and interesting city.
  • Pastiche Jul 21, 2009 @ 8:49 am | delete
    My grandparents were born in Germany and immigrated to the USA in late 1920s. My mother was born in the US but visited Germany just before the war to meet her grandparents and other relatives. In the late 1970s our family lived in Mannheim for 2 years. We couldn't visit Berlin then, but Mama did go to this great city 2 years ago when she toured Germany once again with her cousins.

    This lens is a most welcome new member of Senior Geek Squids group! 5*
  • EditionH Jul 21, 2009 @ 5:44 am | delete
    Hello Ulla, very nice lens !
    I am one of those many (or rare ?) West-Germans that have NEVER seen the wall in their life time and it does not occur in your lens :).
    Berlin is great,that is what I hear from my daughter who is visiting the city this week again to see and hear a musical!
  • Marelisa Jul 20, 2009 @ 1:51 pm | delete
    I've been to Germany, including Berlin, but it was many, many years ago. I remember thinking what a beautiful country it was. Now you've inspired me to create a similar lens about Panama. :-)
  • ChapelHillFiddler Jul 10, 2009 @ 6:42 am | delete
    Hi, thanks for visiting my mentoring lens! I hope to get to Berlin some day...
  • Vladi Jul 7, 2009 @ 4:48 am | delete
    A lovely lens Ulla and wonderful as your first. I'm looking forward to spreading more from you
  • un_criado_fiel Jul 5, 2009 @ 1:23 pm | delete
    Wow great lens! My mom was stationed in Germany before I was born. I hear they keep there streets and sidewalks really clean. My one suggestion is just to lengthen your personal story a bit and add some personality to each of the sites. Other than that this is a very nice lens. Come see how you did at The New Squidooers Contest!
  • FarAwayJoe Jul 4, 2009 @ 7:12 pm | delete
    Nice city lens. Since I plan to write lenses about some of the cities I do know something about this your lense is a welcomed template for me :). It's also nice to 'meet' some fellow Europeans here at squidoo.
  • surfsusan Jun 29, 2009 @ 2:49 pm | delete
    Lovely photos - I have 2 cousins who live in Berlin but I have never visited them - although they have visited me (in Denmark) - lovely photos.
  • 24websurf Jun 26, 2009 @ 1:57 am | delete
    This is just beautiful! I can't wait to see it finished. Lovely pictures!
  • CoolFoto Jun 19, 2009 @ 10:32 am | delete
    I've been to Berlin 2x. Once when the Wall was up and I took a 3 hour tour of the East. Fascinating city. You have a good start here.
  • ulla_hennig Jun 17, 2009 @ 12:22 pm | in reply to jmsp206 | delete
    Thanks for dropping by and taking the time to comment! And, of course, for your encouraging words!
  • jmsp206 Jun 16, 2009 @ 5:40 am | delete
    As I can see you are still working on this but it has the beginnings of a beautiful lens.
    Some great photos.
  • Lokena Jun 14, 2009 @ 7:57 am | delete
    Hi Ulla, if you have pictures of one of the park I would love to see them. I have heard that Berlin is the "lung" of Eastern Europe because of all the parks and trees, it that true?
  • ulla_hennig Jun 12, 2009 @ 12:37 pm | in reply to qlcoach | delete
    Thanks for dropping by and commenting! I am still working on the lense, so I would be glad to see you here again soon!
  • qlcoach Jun 12, 2009 @ 8:50 am | delete
    Beautiful lens. Love it. Feel free to give us more text. Met you on Twitter. Thanks for visiting my lens about emotional healing. Don't forget to check out the healing chronicles at the end of the page. Sincerely: Gary Eby, author and therapist.
  • lingstar Jun 5, 2009 @ 1:50 pm | delete
    Very nice start! Looking forward to seeing more.

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I have been living in Berlin since 1981. I work at the University of the Arts as web editor, and in my free time I take photographs and write blog posts.... more »

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