32) Dungeons

Christoph Schaaf, the former director of Tiergarten, lives inside the forest, in a peripheral house of the small compound that includes the Berlin Parks Department. The compound is set on the side of a Baroque axis which triumphantly opens the view between Schloss Bellevue and the Tiergarten Tunnel. Schaaf has to keep a very low profile because the department doesn’t agree with his unconditional love of Tiergarten as a whole and appreciation of its wilderness. His house is barely visible, engulfed in a growth of wines and bushes. Late at night Schaaf listens to nightingales and motorcycle races along the Straße des 17. Juni. A real bird lover, he enjoys getting up in the night, especially in the deep winter, roaming the frozen white woods wearing night vision binoculars to observe birds and other animals.

Christoph Schaaf, the former director of Tiergarten, lives inside the forest, in a peripheral house of the small compound that includes the Berlin Parks Department. The compound is set on the side of a Baroque axis which triumphantly opens the view between Schloss Bellevue and the Tiergarten Tunnel. Schaaf has to keep a very low profile because the department doesn’t agree with his unconditional love of Tiergarten as a whole and appreciation of its wilderness. His house is barely visible, engulfed in a growth of wines and bushes. Late at night Schaaf listens to nightingales and motorcycle races along the Straße des 17. Juni. A real bird lover, he enjoys getting up in the night, especially in the deep winter, roaming the frozen white woods wearing night vision binoculars to observe birds and other animals.