Homeless on fancy streets: Guided city tour in Berlin from personal experience｜Germany

After Dieter Bichler lost his apartment in Thuringia, he was stranded at Berlin's Zoo train station in the fall of 2012. Together with a group of other homeless people, he moved along Kantstraße to get food, warm up, and find a suitable place to sleep. Dieter's tour is about daily survival on the street, about being poor in the affluent district of Charlottenburg, and about friendships that you can probably only find on the street.

Life on the street has its own rules: everything is public, nothing is private. Inevitably, your perspective on the city changes when you become homeless, when streets, parks, and train stations become the centers of your life.

Our city tours sharpen the senses for this different perception of Berlin. People who have been affected themselves provide information about housing and homelessness in the capital and talk about their lives on the street. Our city tours are about individual perspectives. Here, people who are otherwise often talked about have their say. They invite you to a dialogue and a different view of the city.