Sunday, March 25, 2012

archipelago

If the cognitive map of The City that grew in me, in my 20s, consisted of a dynamic network of places/spaces in which to drink and smoke, then my image of this city, Berlin, now, is an expanding archipelago of Kinderspielplatzen Kinderspielplätze: Rüdesheimer Platz, Hohenstaufenplatz, Bolzplatz Böckhstraße, Hasenheide, Tempelhof, Grimmstraße ("Grimmi"), Hobrechtstraße at Pflügerstraße (what do people call that one?), Victoriapark, etc. The beer garden next to the Spielplatz in Victoriapark represents a possible, personal sort of point de capiton...
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  1. pupilApril 17, 2012 at 2:57 PM

    + Hornstraße

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  2. pupilApril 23, 2012 at 6:18 PM

    I learned today that only n00bz call Hohenstaufenplatz by its official name. If you're from the Kiez, it's Zickenplatz, yo.

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  3. pupilMay 25, 2012 at 5:56 PM

    Aha! An answer to my question about Hobrechtstraße at Pflügerstraße: Because of the carved folk-tale-ish figures set around the house and climbing structures, some locals refer to the place as Feenplatz.

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    1. pupilJune 5, 2012 at 6:40 PM

      Oof. I busted out "Feenplatz" today and was met with blank looks. Slaps forehead. Ach. It's Märchenplatz...

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    2. pupilJune 13, 2013 at 4:09 AM

      + it almost goes without saying that we have also visited the "big boy spielplatz" on the other side of hobrecht many times

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  4. pupilAugust 21, 2012 at 2:47 PM

    + Weichselplatz
    + Reuterplatz
    + the one across the street (Belziger) from "mein Lieblingseis frozen yogurt bar"
    + Heinrich-Lassen
    + Treptower
    + Fontanepromenade
    + Gleisdreieck

    I think that brings the list up to date.

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  5. pupilAugust 27, 2012 at 5:22 AM

    + "Spielplatz am Landwerkanal" (directly in front of Burg am See)

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  6. pupilSeptember 5, 2012 at 4:13 PM

    I forgot all about this one, which R and I visited once or twice in the middle of the winter:

    + the one between Maybauchufer and Schinkestr

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  7. pupilSeptember 12, 2012 at 8:16 PM

    hm: rePLACE BERLIN

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  8. pupilSeptember 12, 2012 at 8:18 PM

    + Kinderbauernhof (im Görlitzer Park)
    + the one next to Brachvogel

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  9. pupilSeptember 17, 2012 at 1:22 PM

    + Nachbarschaftshaus Urbanstraße e.V.

    ...and I had forgotten until today a late spring visit to:

    + Das Familien- und Nachbarschaftszentrum Kiezoase in der Barbarossastraße 65

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  10. pupilSeptember 23, 2012 at 2:46 PM

    + Tiergarten (the Spielplatz not too far from where the Grosser Weg passes near to Lichtensteinallee, in the SW "quadrant")

    And there are many more Spielplätze in the Tiergarten to check out.

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  11. pupilSeptember 25, 2012 at 2:41 PM

    speaking of The City (a.k.a. nyc) versus berlin: ah haha ha ah haha.

    on a more serious note, i am comforted that i am evidently not the only one who "find[s] grumbling against tourists and the English-language here [Berlin] to be xenophobia disguised as activism."

    i will go further: there is at least a strong resonance between some of the anti-gentrification rhetoric in berlin and the trope of the wandering/rootless jew one finds in the history of modern anti-semitism.

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  12. pupilSeptember 28, 2012 at 4:02 AM

    + Schleiermacherstraße Ecke Fürbringerstraße

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  13. pupilOctober 16, 2012 at 5:03 AM

    + r and i visited the grunewald for the first time over the weekend. no spielplatz, technically, but worth considering as one for my purposes

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  14. pupilOctober 21, 2012 at 2:00 AM

    + Kinderspielplatz Lohmühleninsel
    + Winterfeldplatz

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  15. pupilOctober 21, 2012 at 3:23 PM

    + Wildenbruchplatz

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  16. pupilNovember 18, 2012 at 11:09 AM

    + Jolos Kinderwelt (am Tempelhofer Berg 7d)

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  17. pupilDecember 5, 2012 at 5:29 PM

    + the indoor "Winterspielplatz" in the basement of the Baptist church on Feurigstr.

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  18. pupilMarch 15, 2013 at 6:29 AM

    for future reference, just in case this winter ends, tip's Die schönsten Spielplätze in Berlin

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  19. pupilApril 11, 2013 at 8:43 AM

    m&r went to a nice one somewhere up by Rosenthaler Platz

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  20. pupilMay 3, 2013 at 5:20 AM

    on 1. mai, r and i went to YAAM, with its super kid-friendly "beach," and, as i wrote to BT yesterday: "R finished the night by joining some other children in a jubilant, chaotic appropriation of a skateboarding half-pipe as a slide, whilst hip-hop echoed across the basketball court and the parents milled around drinking beer and helping their tots to the top of the half-pipe."

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  21. pupilMay 10, 2013 at 9:25 AM

    Strandbad Wannsee

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  22. pupilMay 27, 2013 at 7:59 AM

    on saturday we snuck into the private indoor spielplatz of "Aspria Ku'damm" on karlsruher straße and then also went to Kids Planet, whoah

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  23. pupilMay 29, 2013 at 8:19 AM

    + several Spielplaetze in the Volkspark Friedrichshain

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  24. pupilJune 2, 2013 at 11:18 AM

    + Körtestraße

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  25. pupilJune 10, 2013 at 4:14 AM

    + Volkspark Wilmersdorf (mittlerer Bereich)/Rudolph-Wilde-Park?

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  26. pupilJune 21, 2013 at 3:19 AM

    the secret spielplatz of the hasenheide

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  27. pupilJune 22, 2013 at 4:36 AM

    + richardplatz + shudomastr

    just remembered that R had been to the rinky dinky richardplatz one before, during the weihnachtsmarkt!

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  28. pupilJune 23, 2013 at 1:41 PM

    + the prinzenbad has its own little spielplatz over by the wading pool

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  29. pupilAugust 10, 2014 at 3:24 PM

    a year later, on holiday, we're revisiting a lot of old haunts: Zickenplatz; Grimmi; Hasenheide (upstairs and downstairs); Weichselplatz; Tempelhof; Fuerbringerstrasse; the "big boy" Spielplatz on Hobrecht ecke Pflueger; Gleisdreieck (Ostpark (new! nice!) and Westpark); Prinzenbad; Sommerbad Neukoelln; Viktoriapark; Lohmuehleninsel...

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  30. pupilAugust 2, 2016 at 6:53 AM

    ...two years later, on an extended visit, i have lost track of both the playgrounds we've visited that are new to us and the ones that we already knew...

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