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126, Chausseestraße, 10115, Berlin, DE Germany
contacts phone: +49 30 4617279
website: www.evfbs.de
larger map & directionsLatitude: 52.52835, Longitude: 13.3846804
Dayna Bateman
::Lovely spot for lovers of German intellectual history -- many luminaries are buried here, and even if the names are unfamiliar, the monuments themselves are works of art. It's like wandering through a sculpture garden.
Kati S
::I went to see a James Turrell lecture in the chapel and can highly recommend that. A professor talks for about 45 minutes while you enjoy the light installation, which slightly changes colors the entire time. A must see if you are into light art. Advance registration needed.
Demiurg
::A wonderful place of calmness and peace with lush green and trees that rock in the gentle breeze.
Francisco Serrano
::Beautiful place. All sorts of different decorations for the resting places for a lot of people buried here. Just beautiful.
Sofia
::Beautiful cemetery. As for James Turrell's installation in the chapel, the way it's set up is utterly disappointing. The installation itself was good enough, but the whole experience is off. If you're going here and hoping for a Rothko Chapel-like contemplation moment, think again. The way it's structured allows you to appreciate the light art but nothing else. First there is an irrelevant presentation for about 20 minutes of someone reading off a paper and for the rest of the duration they allow people to take photographs, so, in 2017, of course this translates in people taking photos for social media and getting up and down while never allowing for a quiet and undisturbed moment when one can actually appreciate the beauty of what's happening (at some point I looked back and there were about 15 people standing taking photographs at the same time). I guess it would be worth it if there was a spiritual quality to it but in these moldes that is impossible, which is a shame. Definitely a go-to for a cool Instagram feed, I guess, but this is sadly a failed art piece.