A digitisation professional and big fan of the landscape park Johannisthal/Adlershof:
If you want to immerse yourself in the history of the Science City Adlershof, make a stop at Bernd Haase’s DSC Digital Service Center. As a qualified measurement technician, he worked for East German television in the…
Walid Hreich supplies Adlershof with Oriental dishes:
Some of his customers now come all the way from Köpenick. Some as far as Tempelhof. And so, it is safe to say that, over the course of three years, this simple food stall in front of the Centre for IT and Media has…
How an apprentice, a researcher, and a young entrepreneur explore Adlershof:
There is life after work. We wanted to know what young people, who haven’t been working on the site for very long, do in their free time or during their lunch break? Do they have any good tips? A tour for discovering…
From Mediterranean and Italian to Vietnamese – these are Adlershof’s newest restaurants:
Adlershof’s culinary diversity is growing. At three new restaurants, the owners, chefs, and cooks have created their own culinary world and are now luring in customers – not just at lunch time. Two of the showcased…
Light installations, art in buildings, historical monuments: an expedition through Adlershof:
The Technology Park Adlershof in autumn. Shiny new buildings, the doors of high-tech companies and institutes are locked, only few people are outside. Hurrying across the site, it could easily seem like purely…
Public transport wanes in popularity, private transport gains in importance:
Public transport is losing ground in Germany, while the importance of individual means of transport, especially private cars, is increasing. These are the key findings of the second survey conducted by the German…
Lars Zemke solves IT problems and is an advocate for light electric vehicles:
It took a while until he was able to say: ‘I’m slowly becoming an Adlershoferian,’ he says. Just when he got used to saying it, the pandemic drove him out of his office at ‘Am Studio’ located in the former Solon…
Service offering from the Adlershof Health Network for the Science City’s employees:
Annika Huber-Lieske could not reveal to us whether any of the relay race’s colourful teams from last year would be standing on this year’s starting line. But on 3 September 2020, it is indeed ‘ready, set, go’ for the…
viadrina sprachen GmbH in Adlershof not only conveys language but also intercultural differences:
Though language trainers are anything but rare, they are in high demand. Nuances of a language are best taught one-on-one, says Yvonne Dertinger. She has been teaching German as a foreign language for 13 years, and…
How do machine translations fare in providing accurate translations?:
Using smartphone-based translation apps or Google Translate on their computers are invaluable tools to many. The software is continuously improving. But how does it work? What are its limitations? And will our…
The German courses at IGAFA are not about perfect grammar – more importantly, they help to start conversations with others:
‘At the office, everything is very international and we speak a lot of English,’ says Ardian Gojani, who came to the Adlershof-based Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) three years ago and…
About the effects of gender-sensitive language:
Gender-inclusive language – some find too much fuss is being made about it, others say it is still not enough. How do Adlershof-based scientists and entrepreneurs address the issue? Late in May, (social) media was…
The applicants for Adlershof’s Dissertation Award receive professional coaching:
Three newly graduated PhD students competed for the Adlershof Dissertation Award at the Erwin Schrödinger Centre of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU). They had only 15 minutes for each presentation, followed by a…
The Johannisthaler Filmanstalten (Jofa) film studios were founded a hundred years ago:
The year 1920 began with some far-reaching changes for the German Empire. On 10 January, the Treaty of Versailles became effective. In Johannisthal and Adlershof, two then-rural communities on the south-eastern…
Andrea Lübcke researches molecules and campaigns against climate change:
She strongly disagrees that the issues she deals with on a day-to-day basis are exceptionally hard to grasp. Take a femtosecond, for example. What’s hard to grasp about that? It’s not hard if you try to imagine that a…
Time travelling through the Egg Room, the magnificent director’s office, and other hidden places:
A neon-lit corridor, cold and long, leads up to the director’s office – decorated with all kinds of insignia of power. The R1 building with its rather austere exterior was once home to the television broadcaster of…
The transport researcher is heading the ‘Transforming Automobility’ group at the DLR:
The average German is on the road for 80 minutes a day. Transport researcher Christine Eisenmann takes her bike to work, which takes her to and around the Technology Park Adlershof without having to deal with traffic.…
Heinrich Follmann is an avid cyclist:
The first few kilometres of his way to work take Heinrich Follmann through the depths of the forest. He has been cycling down this track almost every day for many years. The bike path ‘Euroroute R1’ connects Calais…
Neighbourhood parking, bike parking, mobility hubs – ideas for a new mobility concept in Adlershof:
The Technology Park Adlershof is growing and continues its success. On the flipside, however, the local transportation infrastructure is under pressure. Congestion, lack of parking, and public transport that is…
What is the BVG planning in the Science City Adlershof?:
Buses and trams to Adlershof are often overcrowded, particularly during commuting hours in the mornings and afternoons on weekdays. And the Science City keeps on growing. How will future employees commute, students…