The 1920s Around the Ku'damm
“Seen from Kurfürstendamm, the city strikes me as a sparkling gem. In the evening, it glows with a splendor that Paris cannot match.”—That’s how none other than Josephine Baker described West Berlin in the 1920s.
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The tour takes you right into the heart of the nightlife and the cultural avant-garde—around Kurfürstendamm. This is where Berlin’s proverbial pace pulsates, where people seek out the allure of the modern metropolis. Cocaine is available on almost every corner; literary cafés like the famous Romanisches Café, with its “swimmers’ and non-swimmers’ pools,” are gathering spots for the bohemian crowd. Marlene Dietrich is celebrating her first major successes, Erich Kästner publishes *Emil and the Detectives*, and Josephine Baker shows Berliners what true sex appeal is.
Cinemas, theaters, and ballrooms made western Berlin the cultural heart of the Golden Twenties. Many traces of this dazzling era have survived to this day. And where time has erased its traces, we’ll bring them back to life with historical film footage on the iPad and the perfect soundtrack.
To wrap things up, a special highlight awaits you: a glass of sparkling wine in the former living room of one of the greatest silent film stars in cinematic history.
The tour is led by Arne Krasting, an expert on the 1920s, author of the book *Fassadengeflüster*, and host of the podcast *Goldstaub*.
