Rosa Rosenstein's Berlin

Ouriel Morgensztern

01/28/2013 - 14:16

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After watching the Rosa Rosenstein film, pupils of Year 12 went out to explore the places mentioned in the film. Take a look at what Rosa's Berlin would look like in 2009.

Hackesche Höfe Berlin According to Rosa Rosenstein’s biography on ‘centropa.org’ Rosa worked there in the 1920ies and in addition met her first husband, Maximilian Weisz., there.

The Hackesche Höfe was built as commercial buildings in the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

Now, we would like to give you an impression of the Hackesche Höfe today. The Hackesche Höfe is located in the Rosenthaler Straße and is a complex system of connected houses and court yards.

The Hackesche Höfe is one of the tourists’ favourite places to go many of them feel really attracted to that area. In the evenings, especially in the late spring and summer, the Hackesche Höfe is a centre of nightlife in Berlin sometimes it is nearly impossible to walk due to a mass of people. Thus, when you are in Berlin you should definitely go to the Hackesche Höfe and have a look, you can sit down in one of the numerous cafés and watch people passing by.

Set in the heart of Berlin Mitte, they offer space for a lot of cafés, restaurants and bars, a cinema and a variéte theatre, and fashion shops.

In general, the area around Hackesche Höfe and the Rosenthaler Straße is kind of fancy and fashionable: One can find great fashion stores like Ben Sherman, Fred Perry, COS, Drykorn, Replay, Diesel etc. One cannot only find big label stores in that area there are vintage stores, too, which represent Berlin’s ‘independent sub- and youth culture’

Front view of the New Synagogue of Berlin ("Neue synagoge Berlin"), which was built 1859–1866 as the main synagogue of the Berlin Jewish community, on Oranienburger Straße. Because of its splendid eastern Moorish style and resemblance to the Alhambra, it is an important architectural monument of the second half of the 19th century in Berlin. The present building on the pictures is a reconstruction of the original, which was badly damaged prior to and during World War II.

Another picture of the front of the building.

Back view, inner courtyard and Centrum Judaicum (one of the Jewish communities of Berlin). By the way, some of our classes are taught in the yellow building on the right side and there is a gym in the back as well.