Stadt im Ohr

Stadt im Ohr: City Tour as a Radio Play to Walk Along With

Behind Stadt im Ohr is not a guide leading a group, but a radio play on your own smartphone. The provider is located on Rudolfstraße in Friedrichshain and produces audio walks that interweave facts and fiction with historical original sounds and location-specific music into a dramaturgy. Playback is done in its own app for Android and iPhone or directly in the browser, GPS-guided. Each audio walk starts at its own location in the city, so no registration or fixed appointment is required. If you want to go, buy a voucher online, redeem the code, and set your own pace. This allows a tour to be started spontaneously on a free afternoon or spread over several days. The audio walks are designed to lead along real addresses, with the narration beginning precisely where you are standing.

Six Audio Walks from Friedrichshain to Queertopia

The Friedrichshain audio walk lasts approximately two and a half hours and leads from Karl-Marx-Allee to the Boxhagener Kiez. You will be accompanied by young Berliner Claudia and her device called Entdecktor, by Rosi, a Berlin street dog mix, as well as by voices such as architectural critic Bruno Flierl, Claire Waldoff, Heinrich Zille, and Otto Grotewohl, the first Prime Minister of the GDR. The Mitte-Schritte (Mitte Steps) through the historical center take 80 minutes but can be extended as desired. Additionally, there are the Werkstatt Wedding (Wedding Workshop), the Friedenau audio walk, the Wege nach Queertopia (Paths to Queertopia), and the tour Zwischen Schlange und Schwan (Between Snake and Swan) about life in GDR architectural monuments. For groups of ten or more, there is the interactive format Einstecken und Austeilen (Plug in and Hand out), which lasts about 75 minutes. A voucher for an audio walk from Stadt im Ohr costs 11.99 Euros and is valid for one device. If you buy multiple vouchers for the same tour, you get a 17 percent discount. Because the recordings run on your own device, a tour can be paused, rewound, or finished listening to on another day at any time.