That was super cool, unfortunately Felix was sick. Jasmine was very kind and drove us on a tour.
The main stop was Teufelsberg. It was once the site of an unfinished nazi technical college which the allies could not destroy, so it was buried in a pile of East Berlin rubble to make a hill. While the wall was up the NSA constructed a listening station to eavesdrop on the Soviet East German military communications. Now the station has become derelict but the structure remains and has become a site for street art.
On the way back from Teufelsberg I remembered that my German relative had once lived in a house nearby (only 5 minutes out of our way!). So we stopped off there. It’s in a quite rich neighbourhood with many mansions, I wonder if it was like that when they were there?
Back in Berlin we went to a photography exhibition at C / O Berlin by Ren Hang which was funny, beautiful, weird (also pretty explicit).