Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche
The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche (Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church) on Charlottenburg’s Breitscheidplatz is one of Berlin’s most famous landmarks. Boris and Robert selected this for the first stop on our District Tour because “the area around the church was the centre of Berlin’s nightlife in the 1920s,” Robert says. Back then, avant-garde personalities like Gottfried Benn, Else Lasker-Schüler, and Egon Erwin Kisch strolled between the countless jazz clubs, cafés, cinemas, and dance halls of the day. Cabaret artist and composer Friedrich Hollaender transformed the church into a musical landmark when he wrote the revue “Bei uns um die Gedächtniskirche herum” (1928). Robert’s good friend Stephan Wuthe is “a total expert when it comes to the history of the era.” He says: “I’d recommend his ‘Swingwalks’ — musical and historical city tours — to anyone.”
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