The Berlin Wall at 50
Today is an anniversary. The Berlin Wall went up 50 years ago. Imagine a family arriving at Friedrichstraße station in
Read MoreToday is an anniversary. The Berlin Wall went up 50 years ago. Imagine a family arriving at Friedrichstraße station in
Read MoreBlood red, sometimes purple, the marble’s colour was signed off by Hitler himself. It decked his grandest building, the New Reich
Read MoreTheir bodies were doused with petrol and incinerated in a bomb crater, here, in what is now a parking lot. Adolf
Read MoreThere’s a blaze of colour on Alexanderplatz. When Berlin is at its winter’s darkest, the sensation of alienation heightened by
Read MoreThis underground station in Kreuzberg has had many names. It was born Hasenheide in 1924, it became Kaiser-Friedrich-Platz and then
Read MoreI walk through the former death strip of the Berlin Wall and relief floods through me. I don’t miss the
Read MoreIt’s easy to forget that Germany is a new country and that, for much of its history, the term ‘German’
Read MoreYou love this Viennese-styled café, but at times it fills you with grief. You were here in late autumn and
Read MoreThe images on the sarcophagi of the Treptower Park Soviet Memorial (Sowjetische Ehrenmal,1949) are idealised and classical, and very very
Read More“A man is first forgotten when his name is forgotten“. So explains Gunter Demnig, the Berliner artist behind the Stolpersteine,
Read MoreBerliners are not nostalgic. There is public outcry when architects propose to build in a nostalgic style (the re-construction of
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