Activity: Checking out the movie and tv museum at Potsdamer Platz. The museum is located at Potsdamer Platz:
Potsdamer Straße 2
Opening hours:
Monday: closed
Tuesday - Sunday: 10.00-18.00h except on Thursdays: 10.00-20.00h with free entrance starting at 16.00h
The musuem itself is already worth going - but it's not allowed to take pictures inside, so I try my best to explain what's there to see: First you enter a room full of mirrors so you see yourself a million times above and under you - it feels a bit shaky. At the same time there are big screens showing random black and white movies. After you pass this first room it gets a bit more like a musuem and you can see for example the real "Oscar" trophy that Emil Jannings got in 1929 for his movies which premiered in 1928 "The way of all flesh" and "The last command". He got it for his "dramatic performance" so I think I will have to check out these movies at one point.
They have a lot of screens showing movies, artefacts of movie-stars and posters from movie theaters advertising their programmes. I wrote down the content of one of the posters since I couldn't take a picture:
No. 12 Messter Woche 1916
Kriegsberichte aus dem Westen
1. Elefant Jenny, der vierbeinige Feldgraue an der Westfront
2. Auf dem Wege zur Arbeit
3. Wie Jenny Bäume fällt
4. Jenny als lebende Lokomotive
5. In endloser Reihe ziehen deutsche Kavallerie- und Trainkolonnen der Front entgegen.
It translates to:
No. 12 Messter Week 1916
War reports from the West
1. Elephant Jenny, the fourlegged grey one at the west front
2. On the way to work
3. How Jenny fells a tree
4. Jenny the living locomotive
5. Endless rows of german cavalry moving towards the front.
Isn't it crazy to think about that not even 100 years ago people had to go to a movie theater to watch the news??? I mean now everyone has a smartphone and knows everything at all times. But watching the news 100 years ago was actually a social event - people had to go out and I presume pay for it but at the same time they were able to talk to other people about what they've just seen. I really have some trouble imagining that. And you?
In the tv-part of the museum I learned a lot about the history of tv and it was also possible to sit down in a "lounge-area" and watch old tv-shows which you could select yourself at a computer.
Once I was done and outside again - I found the Berlin - Walk of Fame - some stars on the ground on the sidewalk in the middle of the two car lanes at Potsdamer Straße. Basically right in front of the Museum.
And then I found this pole - there are a lot of them - and I actually checked out what it was.
If you look through those poles which are all pointing towards one star on the ground you can actually see a picture of the person whose name is on the star. So I could actually see Marlene Dietrich (she looked a bit like a ghost though) standing at Potsdamer Platz in 2013. I found that very cool. And it's free as well.
At last I found this traffic light for pedestrians which gives good tips on how to behave in traffic:
Only on green
Be a good example to the kids
My food today: pasta with vegetables which I froze the other day and I made a new apple cake using 2 of the remaining apples which I bought on DAY 1.
Total spendings today: 0,00€
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