Jan-Benedict (JB) Werner,
tour guide and tour consultant for Berlin and Potsdam

My main focus lies on classical overview tours and historical interest programmes, but I also guide in selected museums, palaces and memorials. I place equal importance on recounting the facts correctly and comprehensively in my tour commentary, and on designing elegant tours and entertaining my audiences, presenting historic photographs and playing historic audio clips on some of my tours.

I am also developing a special tour format: the Cool Berlin Tour. On this tour, everything that is beautiful and inspired in Berlin, and also fun, is allowed! You may watch a short promotion video clip for the Cool Berlin Tour here.

I am very fond of designing tours for exclusive travel itineraries, incentives and social programmes for meetings and conventions, and have also developed an exclusive format, uniting sightseeing and treasure hunt elements: a guided tour combined with challenging, interesting treasure hunt stations, enabling participants to actively explore the city themselves.

On request, I can hire other qualified fellow guides who provide tour commentary in various languages. The guides are either native Berliners or have lived here for a long time. They are authentic and have good language and presentation skills, empathy, personality, a sound knowledge of the city and German history.

Join me for visits of the Pergamon Museum, the Cecilienhof Palace, Charlottenburg Palace - Old Palace and New Wing, Schönhausen Palace, Grunewald Palace and Neue Kammern Palace, as well as of the Charlottenburg Palace Gardens, the Sanssouci Palace Gardens and "Neuer Garten". I hold official guide licences.

I am also licenced to act as driver guide for individual visitors and small groups of up to eight people, and have been certified as a local tourist guide according to the criteria of the Federal Association of Guides in Germany ("Bundesverband der Gästeführer in Deutschland e.V.").

I am a member of the German Historical Museum Friends' Association (Museumsverein des Deutschen Historischen Museums e.V.) and the Friends of the German Museum of Technology Berlin (Freunde und Förderer des Deutschen Technikmuseums Berlin e.V.). Jan-Benedict Werner - Berlin Experience is a member of MPI and of the RDA International Coach Tourism Federation e.V.

(Photo: fotostudio-neukoelln.de)