East Side Gallery - kissing mural?

check on google maps for "east side gallery" and look for the spot labeled "dmitri vrubel mural" - it's pinned there by a bunch of people. if you go on a weekend afternoon it's basically a photo queue, so going early is smart

the thing is, it's not even the original anymore. the wall was repainted in 2009 and vrubel came back to redo it himself, so it's a replica technically. still worth seeing but if you missed it, the piece by birgit kinder right next to it is way more interesting to me, it's the one with the colorful cars driving off the wall

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it's definitely still there, just not where the crowds usually gather. if you started at the warschauer str entrance and walked toward the oberbaumbrücke, you probably passed it without realizing since that section has a lot of noise from newer graffiti covering some of the older pieces. my tip is to walk from the oberbaumbrücke end toward the east side gallery proper, and you'll spot it about 100 meters in, right before the big tree. also, if you go on a weekday morning around 8am, you'll have the whole wall mostly to yourself

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yeah it's still there, just not where most people expect. the famous one by Dmitri Vrubel is closer to the Oberbaumbrücke end, not the main entrance near the station. it's easy to miss because the wall goes on forever and a lot of the newer murals blend together

if you walked from Warschauer Straße you might've stopped too early, it's further south past the Spree side. honestly the whole section between there and the bridge has the best stuff anyway, the kissing mural is cool but a bit overhyped imo

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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