Peter Althaus Wild East

Peter Althaus

Favorite countries

Ukraine, Lithuania, Romania

Peter Althaus is co-founder of Wild East and a true Eastern Europe expert. He has traveled to all countries in the region and is an expert on the countries behind the former Iron Curtain. He is a journalist and has worked for dpa and several major regional newspapers. In 2011 he founded the travel blog Rooksack, which in the following years was one of the leading blogs for backpacking and individual discoveries. Since 2016, he has been living in Lviv, Ukraine, where he runs the travel company Lviv Buddy, guiding guests around the city and organizing trips across Ukraine. Since the Corona pandemic brought tourism to Ukraine to a standstill for the time being, he founded Wild East with Markus Bingel and has since been writing about his other favorite countries as well.

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All articles of Peter Althaus published at Wild East

The Bauhaus Dessau is one of the icons of modernism. But the Bauhaus artists also worked on many other projects in Dessau that are easy to visit on a Bauhaus Dessau tour.
Halle-Neustadt was built as a planned city for chemical workers in Halle Germany. Once, 90,000 people lived in this paradise for working people.
The Mansfeld County is a rather unknown region in Germany. But the place where Martin Luther was from has a lot of things to offer.
There are hundreds of sights in the Harz mountains. We have compiled the best places and destinations and give travel tips.
Karl Marx Stadt was one of the most famous cities in the GDR. With the reunification followed the renaming back. We wanted to see what is left of the GDR Chemnitz.
In Chemnitz, there are many modernist buildings in the metropolis. Here there are many buildings in Chemnitz Modernism style which we want to introduce to you here.
Chemnitz is the most underrated city in Saxony. Yet there are dozens of attractions in Chemnitz Germany. We present the Top 10.
The GDR in Dresden – you’d think it never existed. We go for a walk and look for what is left of socialism in Dresden architecture.

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