Berlin Travel Guide - A Different Kind of Storytelling
There are many ways to experience Berlin's diverse history, but a travel guide is not one of them.
It would be a bit like having an expert tell you the story of your city, but it doesn't work like that. In fact, an expert is a bad idea, because they are, well, experts. But a travel guide is not that, it is a very different kind of story-telling. In this app, you will find facts, figures and dates. It is intended to be a kind of book that you can read on the bus, but it doesn't have the same power as the book, because it has been made for mobile use.
This app, though, is not like the typical book. You can read the story of an event, and go to the place to see what happened, and to check out the surroundings. But this app also has some video clips, in which you will see the exact spot where a story took place. That is how it works.
The stories are not just about the places. They are about what was happening in Berlin at the time. The stories are not just in German. They also include the history in other languages. The idea is to make history come alive for the user, so that they can feel it with their senses.
The stories are intended to be used in classrooms, so that students can see and hear the event first-hand.
