Between the antic and the modern Athens

All visitors to Krakow sooner or later end up on the Main Market Square too.

One of the locations of the series is the Rote Burg Police Headquarters, which was located exactly where the Alexa department store is located in the centre of Berlin today. During the Second World War, however, the building (at that time the Gestapo headquarters) was destroyed, so that the exterior of the police headquarters had to be replaced. The choice fell on the Red City Hall, which is not even 10 minutes walk away. The office scenes of the police headquarters were shot in the studio. The next location, the nightclub and nude club Moka Efti, was located at Friedrichstraße 60 and had a legendary seductive reputation. Today, however, there is nothing left of it in Friedrichstraße 60, because a building complex erected in the 90s is now located here. However, a good replacement was also found here, because the scenes in the Moka Efti were shot in the empty silent cinema Delphi in the district Weißensee. The Alexanderplatz should not be missing in a series about Berlin as a location, but it was a big challenge for the makers to resurrect the Alexanderplatz of the 20s. The whole place was closed for one day and used for the shooting. The makers sent countless extras in the look of the 1920s to Alex (as the Berliners like to call him), let dozens of the car models of that time drive through the streets and in the background even a pre-war tram drove through the picture. The restaurant Aschinger as part of the company Aschinger managed to become one of the biggest gastronomy chains in Europe. The restaurant was especially popular with low earners, because the good and cheap food could be eaten with any number of ribs (rolls). The Alexanderhaus and the Weltzeituhr are located where the Aschinger Restaurant used to be, which is why the Ratskeller of the Rathaus Schöneberg was used for filming. The Karstadt department store on Hermannplatz forms the backdrop for the workers' demonstrations in the "Blutmai" in 1929. At that time it was considered the most modern department store in Europe, but also fell victim to the Second World War. Years later it was rebuilt on the same site and so in this case the shooting location could also be the original location. The Varieté-Schuppen Plaza is not only in the series a popular place for a cosy evening with drinks: In the 20's it was mainly workers of the proletarian quarter Friedrichshain who visited the Plaza in the former Ostbahnhof. Today the publishing building of the New Germany is located there. A complete contrast to the Plaza is the Kakadu, which at the time was the largest bar in the capital. Here high finance and half-world spent the evenings between coke, opium swaths etc. with each other. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)