"Wagt's doch, Kultur zu haben!" – Weltliteratur um den Steinplatz

In the organizer's words:

Politics, science, visual arts, literature, music and theater have shaped Steinplatz and its surroundings for around 150 years. It is the center of a lively cultural, educational and commemorative landscape, which has been presented and made legible on city walks since 2020.

In 1908, the architect and designer August Endell published a treatise on "The Beauty of the Great City", shortly after the completion of today's Hotel am Steinplatz, with whose organic façade design Endell set an example against the historicism of the neighboring buildings. Alfred Grenander also left behind a sign of modern architectural thinking with his kiosk on Steinplatz. Budding architects are taught at the Berlin University of the Arts and the TU Berlin. The university buildings have always served as examples of contemporary building, and the campus has also preserved surprising testimonies to Berlin's architectural history since Schinkel.

The city tours are offered by the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district office in cooperation with visitBerlin. They are funded by grants for special tourism projects from the Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises.