page_title: Berlin Zoologischer Garten railway station
section_title: Zoo Station in popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Berlin Zoologischer Garten railway station / Zoo Station in popular culture
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bahnsteig der Linie U 2 der U-Bahn Berlin des U-Bahnhofs Berlin Zoologischer Garten in Deutschland
context_page_description: Berlin Zoologischer Garten Station is a railway station in Berlin, Germany. It is located on the Berlin Stadtbahn railway line in the Charlottenburg district, adjacent to the Berlin Zoo.
  During the division of the city, the station was the central transport facility of West Berlin, and thereafter for the western central area of reunified Berlin until the opening of Berlin Hauptbahnhof in 2006. It is also an interchange with the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn, which uses the Stadtbahn viaduct along with RegionalExpress and RegionalBahn trains.
context_section_description: The station is well known as the setting of the 1978 book Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo ("We children from Zoo Station"), written by the Stern journalists Kai Hermann and Horst Rieck according to the interviews with Christiane Felscherinow. It became a bestseller in Germany, dramatising the period in the late 1970s when the rear of the station facing Jebensstraße was a meeting point for rent-boys, teen runaways, and drug addicts. The film Christiane F. – We Children from Bahnhof Zoo directed by Uli Edel was released in 1981.
  The 1991 U2 song "Zoo Station" was inspired by the station, written while the band was recording Achtung Baby at the Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin, which in turn inspired their Zoo TV Tour and the album Zooropa. Although the U-Bahn line U2 today passes through the station, it was numbered U1 at the time; a rearrangement and renumbering of the line took place in November 1993, when the section linking it to the remainder of the line in former East Berlin was reopened.
  The song "Auf'm Bahnhof Zoo" by Nina Hagen released on the 1978 album Nina Hagen Band refers to the station.
  The song "Zootime" by Mystery Jets ends with the line Wir sind die Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo.
  "Bahnhof Zoo" is also a track on the 2005 album Randy the Band by the Swedish band Randy.
  The song "Big in Japan" by Alphaville refers to the Zoo station in the line "Should I stay here at the Zoo".
  The song "Bahnhof Zoo" by port-royal takes its name from the station.
  The song "Slept" by The Sisters of Mercy was inspired by this station.
  The book "Zoo Station: Adventures in East and West Berlin" by Ian Walker was published in 1987 by the Atlantic Monthly Press. It recounts the author's experiences in 1980s Berlin, his encounters with the young people on both sides of the wall, and their separation and occasional commingling.
  The book "Zoo Station" by David Downing published by Soho Press in 2007.  It is the first in a series of World War II spy thrillers set in Berlin.
  Zoo Bahnhof was one of the murder scenes in The Pale Criminal (1990), a historical detective novel by Philip Kerr.
caption: U-Bahn Station (U2 platform)
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