A "Senior Guide" by now, being a tour guide since 1994, I'm still passionate about this ever-changing town.

This is Berlin to me: modern German politics, city planning, Prussian kings and emperors, avantgarde arts and cultures, multiethnic life, dreamy lakeshores, a great amount of freedom. . . but mostly, of course, it's the 20th century history which counts here.

The two big tales of the 20th century were Berlin-made - one of deepest misery and one of highest joy - Hitler's Third Reich and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. It was the fascination of Berlin after the Wall had gone, the split city becoming one, that made me turn Berlin into my profession.

I offer expertise and experience, comprehensive, top-quality and knowledgeable services, always focusing on my guests's interests and wishes. All my tours can be taken either with minivan, bus, or walking/taxi/public transport. All tours in English, Spanish or German.
I also work as tour and travel guide in Germany, Czech Republic, and Poland, Krakow/Auschwitz.

Apart from guiding, I love swing dancing and I create art (mostly drawings).

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Berlin!

Certified member of BVGD (Federal Association of Guides in Germany) and Berlin Guide e.V.
Certified guide in: Otto Weidt's Workshop of the Blind, Memorial KZ Sachsenhausen, Pergamon Museum, Old Museum, Charlottenburg Palace / New Wing
Guiding in Topography of Terror, Jewish Museum, New Museum, Old National Gallery, Checkpoint Charlie Museum, Allied Museum, Stasi Museum
Dipl.-Psych. in Psychology, Free University Berlin, Art Therapist

Do the stories of Berlin - the city of Prussian order and progress, of the Republic of Weimar's disorder and unrest, of Nazi violence and destruction, of the physical and mental division established by the wall - fit into a single narrative?

Let's answer this question by walking and talking on the streets of Berlin.

And let's think and explore with our senses what made and still makes Berlin a city of change and conflict, of destruction and creation. Let's see and imagine the city's struggle for freedom (with the revolutionaries in 1848) and the imposition of authority (with the first unification of Germany in 1871)

Let's understand what led Berlin to be the center of racial, genocidal imperialism (from 1933); and then to be cut (in 1961) into two different worlds -West and East - separated by a "death strip".

Let's recall the fall of the wall and the rise of a new, creative, unified but never homogeneous Berlin.

Tour guide in Berlin Janna R.

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