Charlottengrad and the
Sunken Village
of Lietzow

Our tour begins at Charlottenburg’s S-Bahn station and moves through the neighborhood tied to Nabokov’s A Guide to Berlin, written here in the winter of 1925. Along the way, we’ll look at traces of the Russian émigré community, the radical social experiments of Kommune 1, and landmarks like the Klick Kino, micro museums, Music Train Records, Persian bookshops, Gallery 15, Parkside Gallery Berlin, and the antique dealers of Suarezstraße. The walk ends with a stroll around the Lietzensee, where local folklore speaks of a sunken village beneath the water, and where, for a time, mystic Aleister Crowley used Charlottenburg as his base of operations.

Now synced to a native audio player with Agnes moving across the route as the transmission plays.