Guide to East Berlin and West Berlin differences, from its history to present day uncover the East vs West Berlin characteristics.
Rudi Meisel was one of the very few West German photographers to cross the Berlin Wall into East Germany. Despite the best efforts of censors, he captured authentic street life in the GDR. A new exhibition reveals that East and West Germans weren’t so different after all
Guide to East Berlin and West Berlin differences, from its history to present day uncover the East vs West Berlin characteristics.
In the summer of 1969 when this photograph was taken, the Television Tower was almost complete. (It was opened on 3rd October). The dome of Berlin Cathdedral can be seen, as well as the spire of St Mary's Chruch and, in the middle distance, the House of the Teachers and its Congress Hall also built in the 1960's. The photograph was taken from the roof of the Interhotel Berolina (built 1961-3, demolished 1996).
During the 1960s and 1970s, following the construction of the Berlin Wall, economic competition was a driving force for both East and West Germany. East Germany's Planned Economy (Planwirtschaft) emphasized production. The Government, i.e., the Party, determined what goods were to be produced. Full employment of both men and women was an essential part of the plan. East Germany was the economic Wunderkind of the Soviet Bloc. Below are some of interesting color photographs of daily life in East Germany in the 1970s.
Photographer Heinz Vontin (born 1923 in Berlin) has been digging through his archives again, and unearthed these wonderful color photographs of Berlin in March 1954. They show in an impressive way, how East and West Berlin drifted further apart between reconstruction and economic miracle.
On a Saturday last March, my Berlin neighbors had a plant funeral. They set up three-meter-high wood crosses on our street corner and placed funeral candles all along the street, and the children…
Find out why is Checkpoint Charlie so famous! Learn Checkpoint Charlie history, facts and what is Checkpoint Charlie through my experience.
For two decades the east was Berlin’s hip, happening side. But in recent years the west has begun attracting high-end retailers and contemporary art galleries alike
Berlin, Germany- A father and mother hold up their two babies for their grandparents across the concrete wall to see, as another West Berlin woman looks on. The family has been divided since the...
Eckkneipe "bei Plaßmanns", Adalbert-/Ecke Naunynstr., Kreuzberg, 1980/82 Schön war die Zeit, als die Welt noch in Ordnung war- West-Berlin in pictures #272: Pub "bei Plaßmanns", Crossroads...
Karl-Marx -Allee, formerly Stalin-Allee
You encountered boundaries. There was the Wall. But there were also invisible boundaries.
Berliner Dom seen from Unter den Linden, with the Neue Wache in the forefront
Seen from West Berlin Charité hospital in East Berlin S-Bahn train on Stadtbahn
Thomas Hoepker: Kinder spielen an der Berliner Mauer, Wedding, Bernauer Straße, 1960er Jahre #503
apartment squatted by a group of punks in East Berlin. 1982.
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In 1971, my parents and I visited East Berlin shortly after my 13th birthday. The adventure was on a whim, but the experience was a “life changer.” If my memories of the city were not s…
A former railway terminus that was left abandoned for decades in the no-man's land between East and West Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof opened as a gallery for contemporary art in 1996 and is today one of the most significant (and largest) institutions of its type in the world.
This was how it looked when I lived in Berlin in the mid-80s. It’s just a couple of hundred metres along from Checkpoint Charlie (as was). Now that it’s all gone, it’s hard to e…
Marking the day, 25 years ago on Sunday, that East and West Germans were united.
Children from West Berlin peer through an opening in the Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz, as East German boarder guards stand watch at the Berlin Wall in Berlin on Nov. 11, 1989.
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church was bombed on 22 November 1943 and intentionally left as a ruin. Gloria Palast cinema closed in 1998. This and many other of my photographs are featured in my book "Berlin in the Cold War, 1959-1966" (Allan Hailstone, Amberley Publishing, October 2017), together with the story of my experiences of photographing divided Berlin in those years.
In 1971, my parents and I visited East Berlin shortly after my 13th birthday. The adventure was on a whim, but the experience was a “life changer.” If my memories of the city were not s…
It was on August 13, 1961 when the East German communists started to set up a wall between east and West Berlin, thus closing the last big escape hole in the iron curtain between east and West Germany. These postcards are of West Berlin during the 1960s and 70s.
Twenty-five years have passed since the fall of one of the world's most visible symbols of the Cold War.
The Reichstag had not been in use since when it burned in February 1933 and its interior resembled a rubble heap more than a government building. During the 12 years…
