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Are there any places in Berlin where you can be completely alone and chill?
Is there any cheap or even free places you could go to in or outside of the town to just... be alone for a bit? Obviously outside isn't great because of winter.
I live in a WG myself and can't really offer him my room either. I suggested the Ringbahn or the Ubahn, but obviously there's strikes atm and apparently the Ubahn shuts down during the night anyways, so he can't stay there.
honestly the Staatsbibliothek is a solid choice but another option is the aquarium at the Zoologischer Garten. it's not free but it's like 12 euros and during weekdays it's basically empty. he can just sit in the dark with the fish tanks and no one will bother him for hours. the blue light and quiet hum is pretty calming too.
if he wants totally free and doesn't mind a bit of a walk, the Friedhof der Märzgefallenen in Friedrichshain is a big quiet cemetery. it's open during daylight and most people just walk through without stopping. he can find a bench in a far corner and just sit. cemeteries in Berlin are treated more like parks so it's not weird to hang out there. just bundle up warm.
Yeah, the Staatsbibliothek on Potsdamer Platz is a good one. It's free, dead quiet, and you can just sit in a corner for hours without anyone bothering you.
The Freiluftbibliothek at Prinzessinnengarten in Kreuzberg is worth checking out. It's a small outdoor reading room that's mostly empty in winter, and you can sit under the shelter with a book or just stare at the wall. It's free and open during daylight hours, plus there's a cafe nearby if he needs a warm drink before heading out.
What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
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.
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
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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