Berlin History

    ‘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

Pass by in the evening, and look into the picture windows illuminated by candles. Perhaps you will see a penumbra,

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,

It is 1933 and Hitler has come to power. You are Jewish and live in Berlin. Do you have the

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

In front of Friedrichstraße station, along the Spree River, the Tränenpalast or ‘Palace of Tears’ has reappeared out of the