© Julian Mark
Hotel Gerhus, now Schlosshotel im Grunewald, is a historic luxury hotel located by the Grunewald, the public woods in southwest Berlin.
Bowie, accompanied by Tony Visconti and the musicians, initially stayed at the Hotel upon their arrival in Berlin. However, due to Bowie’s need to economize, his assistant Coco Schwab promptly located an apartment for him, which he subsequently moved into after a few weeks