East berlin

In 1974, the German photographer set out to convey the truth about how people really lived in the communist GDR – depicting her fellow citizens with a ‘timeless coolness’

Magnum photographer Thomas Höpker has been photographing the city for decades... we've chosen some of his finest pictures

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“Op een of andere manier is dit wel heel Duits. Toch goed dat die muur eraf is”

Konsum grocery store, corner of Karl-Marx-Allee and Strasse der Pariser Kommune. This store specialized in "Fruits and vegetables from the People's Republic of Poland". Scanned from an Ektachrome slide

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…

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).

Schönhauser Allee/Dimitroffstr. 70ger

Berlin, Alemanha, eurotrip, Berlim, Reichstag

It’s 1983, and strange anarchic goings on are witnessed over the Berlin Wall