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booty-shakers (Date with Dita, Monroe's Kiss). On some nights, burlesque performers
swing from the ceiling and a make-up artist turns patrons into vamps.
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Beer Heaven
www.bierhimmel-kreuzberg.de
;
Oranienstrasse 183; 9am-1am Sun-Thu, to 3am Fri & Sat; Kottbusser
Tor)
draws the coffee-and-cake crowd but is also a relaxed place to get the evening into
gear before moving on to saucier places like Roses.
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Den of Debauchery
ture on the lesbigay Kreuzberg booze circuit. Drinks are cheap and the bartenders pour
with a generous elbow, making this a packed - and polysexual - pit stop during hard-
party nights. Smoking OK.
Kottbusser Tor & the Landwehrkanal
GALLERY
KÜNSTLERHAUS BETHANIEN
030-616 9030;
www.bethanien.de
; Kottbusser Strasse 10;
2-7pm Tue-
Sun; Kottbusser Tor, Schönleinstrasse)
Founded in 1975, the Künstlerhaus is an artistic sanctuary and creative cauldron for emer-
ging artists from around the globe. In 2010 it moved into this former light-fixture factory
where it maintains one of Germany's largest artist-in-residence programs. Exhibits showcase
their work, as well as that of former residents and other artists.
ART CENTRE
KUNSTQUARTIER BETHANIEN
This grand old hospital was designed by three students of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The ori-
ginal pharmacy where poet Theodor Fontane worked in 1848-49 can be admired through a
glass door (ground floor, turn right). Today, the complex harbours nearly three dozen art and
cultural institutions, including the
Kunstraum Kreuzberg
gallery, as well as the 3 Schwest-
ern restaurant.
MUSEUM
FHXB FRIEDRICHSHAIN-KREUZBERG MUSEUM
