Moby Dick Berlin

To make a street complete with books

Cheong Kin from Berlin

About me Obsessed with languages and the aesthetics of East Germany, I have been learning a bunch of German dialects and random languages and have built up my own collection of German books published from the 19th century to the present day. As a translator and visual anthropologist, I reflect every day on life with writings, together with my daily instagramming: I am also a freelance...
""Moby Dick" in East Berlin makes the street it's on complete: apart from everything else, you can also eat & drink intellectually at this book store!"

Less than a five-minute walk away from another Prenzlauer Berg’s bookstore Prior & Mumpitz on Dunckerstraße there's Buchhandlung Moby Dick on Stargarder Straße, a street full of bars and restaurants - and most importantly, my favorite ice-cream in the neighbourhood.

Moby Dick makes this street complete: apart from everything else, you can also eat and drink intellectually here! Opened by a man from Cologne and a lady from Dresden in 2011, Moby Dick is part of the cultural landscape of Prenzlauer Berg: there are many bookstores in this East Berlin Stadtteil (part of the city). Books are in German but non-German-speaking visitors might still find what is essential for a long or short trip: postcards and greeting cards. It is touching to see how small bookstores in the neighbourhood are well supported by the very local neighbours.

As a fairy tale lover, I was surprised that, to this day, Chinese fairy tales in German are still based on an old book by Swabian Sinologist Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930), a book with which I am already familiar. Curious, I thus picked up the German version of “A World Full of Animal Stories” by McAllister to accompany my French chocolate ice cream.

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Berlin Spotter Cheong Kin

About me Obsessed with languages and the aesthetics of East Germany, I have been learning a bunch of German dialects and random languages and have built up my own collection of German books published from the 19th century to the present day. As a translator and visual anthropologist, I reflect every day on life with writings, together with my daily instagramming: I am also a freelance critic who mainly focuses on how understanding language can change one’s world vision and how to tell a visual story. I know many parts of the city - this is thanks to my random enrollme...

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