Berlin History

You love this Viennese-styled café, but at times it fills you with grief. You were here in late autumn and

The images on the sarcophagi of the Treptower Park Soviet Memorial (Sowjetische Ehrenmal,1949) are idealised and classical, and very very

“A man is first forgotten when his name is forgotten“. So explains Gunter Demnig, the Berliner artist behind the Stolpersteine,

Berliners are not nostalgic. There is public outcry when architects propose to build in a nostalgic style (the re-construction of

    ‘One of them grabs my wrists and jerks me along the corridor. Then the other is pulling as

Last weekend, Ackerkeller staged the last of its demolition parties and closed for good. Ackerkeller called itself Mitte’s living room.

There are few places left in Berlin where the experience of American occupation after the Second World War is still

It was a place to walk through, and stare. Built in the early fifties, Karl-Marx Allee, leading into Alexanderplatz, with

I was used to the Museum Island as building site. The edifices were interiors, not exteriors. You negotiated your way

These photographs taken last autumn I found unbearable to contemplate only a few weeks ago. But now, with warmer days,

    Most of my German friends are pacifists. They do not like seeing Germans involved in foreign wars. The