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Bernhard, Hilmar, Michael, Agata, Lindi & Michele
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Bernhard: I led my first tour three years ago. Quite soon I began to see the real meaning of guiding people. Today I’d say that this is what I studied for all those years! Through knowledge and local experience one can fulfil a very basic humans need: curiosity. For me it is a pure and very satisfying pleasure to spend my time with people from all over the world in order to make them FEEL my city. In my opinion that’s what a tour is supposed to be: information imparted in order to create impressions. Or, to quote the Irish playwright Brian Friel: “People think they just want to know the 'facts'... but what they really want is a story.” |
Hilmar is a seasoned, very well-received guide, who has long standing family roots in Berlin, several guide-exams as well as a profound and broad professional background in studies about history of culture, translating, acting and architectural design. Typical for him is the liveliness and dedication with which he tells his narrative! Hilmar is very good company, has a great personal warmth and - to balance his seriousness - a sense of humor. If you want somebody who knows present-day Berlin inside out (including places to eat and drink) and is able to roll out the historical backgrounds of almost everything, then you're spot-on with him! |
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Michael: “Born in Westphalia, I did the first independent trip of my youth to Berlin, directly after the wall had come down. The visit to this fascinating city left me with the resolution to make Berlin the place where to study. Currently I am writing my final thesis on Italian Baroque churches to receive the double honours of History and History of Art at Berlin’s Freie Universität.” |
Agata: As a native of Poland, I feel closely connected to the changes occurring in Berlin, which are linked to some of the those occurring in my country. Since completing my MA in European studies, I have been working on my PhD researching cultural and political changes taking place in Central Europe following the fall of the Soviet Union. When not giving tours to travelers visiting Berlin or traveling myself around Europe, I work as a project assistant at the House of World Cultures, and as a freelance Berlin correspondent for a Polish cultural magazine. |
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Lindi: I completed my masters in Berlin History and Art History at Berlin’s Free University. Presently I’m writing my dissertation on a well-known Berlin painter in the 19th Century. My most keen interest in Berlin is its Prussian past – the background to its complex and stunning growth in modern times. |
Michele: I graduated in Bologna after studying at the Humboldt University of Berlin with a thesis in Contemporary History about the “Reconstruction of Berlin after the Fall of the Wall”. In my tours I show the new Berlin explaining what took place on several building sites after the reunification. Furthermore I connect sightseeing with the discovery of Berlin’s history, a mixture of historical facts and the whole new cityscape that’s came out in the last fifteen years. |
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