mitte - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

Dreaming of a greener Berlin on a cycle with designer David Mallon

Standing in front of an inconspicuous villa with a crumbling facade, designer David Mallon prepares to set off on a...

The blossoming of Marsano—how Berlin’s favorite florist became something much more

The minds behind this dreamlike Berlin space are Annett Kuhlmann, Katrin Jahn and Andreas Namysl. The three founded Marsano in...

Mixtapes

FvF Mixtape #116: The Freunde von Freunden HQ Moves to Kreuzberg

After four years on Mulackstraße, we’re packing up all the Apple products, our beloved espresso machine and heading to Kreuzberg—so...

FvF Cooks: Sicilian chef Fabio Adesso on the traces of travel in his crowd-pleasing desserts

It is both tongue-in-cheek and a wry statement of fact as Lekkamokka is the only one of its kind along...

Berlin

Kelly Robinson

Originally from the United States, she had created the first office space for Airbnb and Couchsurfing before moving to Berlin....

Berlin Workplaces

Christoph Niemann

Every now and again, cartoonist Christoph Niemann places a small item of curiosity in this frame that he exhibits for...

Berlin

FvF Cooks with Cynthia Barcomi: Linzer Bars

Little did young Cynthia know that what she thought to be the invention of her American great-grandmother Cora, actually has...

Berlin Community

FvF Explores: Berlin's New Face with Werner Aisslinger

The significance of the area is clear. Undeveloped spaces show the signs of slowly knitting themselves back together into a...

Berlin

Jan Friese & Kathrin Schuster

Summer is spent at their country home, just under an hour outside the city. In the winter, they’re drawn back...

Berlin

Ulrich Fiedler

Katharina Evers and Ulrich Fiedler love, and more precisely live, what they do. Their design gallery, previously housed in Mitte’s...

Berlin Workplaces

A.D. Deertz

Interviews with fashion designers often seem to revolve around superficial automatisms of the fashion industry, which from one day to...

Berlin

Karen & Christian Boros

Entering the Boros residence surpasses any archetypal ‘home visit’ one might expect. As a former Nazi air raid shelter erected...

Berlin

Arno Brandlhuber

In Berlin, the name Brandlhuber stands above all for house number nine – the house in Brunnenstrasse in the Mitte...

Berlin

Annett Kuhlmann

Annett Kuhlmann’s fascination for flowers sparked at an early age. Growing up on a farm outside of Hamburg, she earned...

Berlin

Ben De Biel

As a long-time manager of the MARIA club and Eimer, as well as a former occupant of the notorious Tacheles...

Berlin

Sven Hausherr

There is this one feeling. Not often tangible, but when it appears, it’s in a certain way mind-blowing. The signs...

Berlin

Felix Petersen

You might take Felix Petersen for a humanities grad student, a graphic designer, or a musician – on first glance...

Mixtapes

FvF Mixtape #23

Tracklist: 1. Nicolas Jaar – Mini Calcutta 2. Chet Baker – Spring Is Here 3. Aphex Twin – Nanou 2...

Berlin

Caroline Drucker

In a male tech-savvy environment where everything is literally at a click of a button without sounding kitsch, there is...

Berlin

Sabine Schmidt

It’s a bleak and grey winter day. We ascend the never-ending stairwell of an apartment building in Berlin’s Wedding district....