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Nisam nikad bila u gradu kao što je Berlin. On mi ne liči ni na jedan drugi. I uopšte ne mislim na ono što vam prvo pada na pamet. Nije to samo zato što su se ovde spaja- li uticaji saveznika koji su ga izdelili u Hladnom ratu, mada je svako ostavio trag. Niti sa- mo zato što je Zapadni Berlin bio kapljica opkoljena Istoč - nim blokom, niti što je u bom- bardovanju bio sravnjen sa zemljom. To su neke nerazumljive kombinacije svega što nika- ko ne bi moglo da ide jedno sa drugim, a ipak se spaja u savršenoj harmoniji. Ogro- mne ulice u kojima često ne - ma nikoga, pa užurbane ave - nije pune turista i najskupljih brendova. Trava iza pločni - Grad kao nijedan drugi
I’d never been to a city like Ber- lin. It doesn’t look like any other city to me. And I’m really not thinking of the first thing that crosses your mind. It isn’t just because it was here that the in- fluences of the Allies, who di - vided the city during the Cold War, converged, though each of them left their mark. Nor is it just because West Berlin was a droplet surrounded by the Ea- stern Bloc; nor because bom- bing almost erased it from the face of the earth. It rather has to do with some incomprehensible combinati- ons of everything that couldn’t possibly go together, but that nonetheless unite in perfect harmony. Huge streets that are often completely devoid of peo- ple, then bustling avenues pac - Berlin, a city like no other
ka visoka skoro do kolena ko- ju niko nije ošišao i niti je- dan papirić na ulici. Ljudi koji vas ne vide, ali su veoma lju- bazni ako im se obratite. Šu- me usred grada, tu, odmah do Brandenburške kapije. A tamo rastinje koje buja kako mu je volja, mada su staze či - ste. I nigde u šumi kafića da sedneš, iako klupe postoje... U Berlinu se spisak zname- nitosti koje morate da vidi- te relativno brzo iscrpljuje. Pa ipak, nema šanse da vidi- te ni deo te eklektike jer je ta- mo sve zanimljivo. Samo mo- rate mnogo da hodate dok ne padnete na nos. Narav- no, na neka mesta ćete mora - ti prevozom jer je Berlin veliki kao pet ili šest Pariza. I tre- baće vam vremena da shva - tite jeste li u Istočnom ili Za - padnom, da li je to Mite ili Kudam, a onda ćete sesti da popijete kafu na Potsdamer placu recimo. I neće vam bi -
ti jasno zašto nigde nema in- terneta. Pa ćete morati da gledate oko sebe umesto u mobilni i da se pitate kako su se zaboga sve te zgrade koje ne liče ni po čemu naš - le jedne uz druge i zašto se sve to savršeno uklapa. Mož - da vi odgovorite na to pitanje, ja sam prestala da bijem gla- vu i pustila da me Berlin za- čuđuje i da mi ništa ne bu - de jasno. Jer nikada nisam bila u gradu kao što je Berlin, i nema šan- se da to mogu da vam opi- šem. Moracete sami da vidi - te. I to je dovoljno lako, jer let Er Srbije traje manje od dva sata. A u međuvremenu...
ked with tourists and the most exclusive brands. Grass verges cut by no one and left to grow almost knee-high, but not a sin - gle scrap of paper discarded on the street. People who see- mingly can’t see you, but are extremely kind if you approa- ch them. Forests in the midd- le of the city, right there, next to Brandenburg Gate. And the- re the greenery flourishes as it pleases, though the paths are clean. And there’s nowhere to sit in a forest of cafes, although there are benches... The list of must-see sights is ticked off relatively quickly in Berlin. And yet, there’s no way that you can see even part of that eclectic whole, because everything is interesting there. You just have to walk a lot un- til you fall on your face. Of cour- se, you’ll have to use transport to visit some spots, because Berlin is five or six times big - ger than Paris. You’ll also need
some time to figure out whet - her you’re in the east or the west, whether you’re in Mitte or Ku‘damm, and then you’ll sit to drink coffee in Potsdamer Platz, for instance. And it won’t be clear to you why there’s no internet access anywhere, so you’ll have to look around in- stead of staring at your phone, and you’ll wonder how it’s even possible that all those buildin- gs that don’t look anything ali- ke ended up next to each other and why that all fits together perfectly. Perhaps you can an- swer that question, I stopped banging my head about it and just let Berlin amaze me and for nothing to be clear to me. That’s because I’ve never been to a city like Berlin, and there’s no chance that I can describe it to you well. You’ll have to see it yourself. And that’s easy eno- ugh, as the Air Serbia flight ta - kes less than two hours. And in the meantime...
Tekst / Words: Jelena Pantović Fotografije / Photography: Frank-Peters , Depositphotos
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