Together with Alfredo Thiermann we explored the infrastructure built for radio in Berlin, starting in the Weimar Republic and running up to the Cold War period. During our bike ride, we visited spaces that reflect the material conditions under which two fundamentally opposing political and aesthetic worldviews coexisted in a single city. As electromagnetic waves, radio could transmit through walls and borders. The infrastructures for broadcasting represent the dynamics of the divided territory, interconnecting politics, electronic technical media and architecture.

Our bike ride started at Teufelsberg and continued over Haus des Rundfunks and Ernst-Reuter-Platz. We sat down for an listening session at Tiergarten and stopped at the old RIAS building and fomer Fernmeldeamt in Schöneberg.

These were only some places on the “west-side” of Berlin. Due to the lack of time, we missed the eastern Radio-activites. But maybe there will be a second edition of the bike ride soon!