Arts Germany Places

Berlin

19/03/2010
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We visited Berlin together multiple times and I always find it fascinating because the memory of the communist era and the unthinkable separation it went through seems still so very present.

The first time we went there together was in 2003, around Sylvester, when we managed to stop by the Potsdam Sanssouci palace (was closed for winter) and also visit the Pergamon museum again ( I saw them both as a small child in the 80s with my parents on a car trip from Romania to the DDR).

Then, we went in back in 2012, when we also visited the DDR Museum. We then went again in April 2018, when we visited even more museums, Potsdam‘s Sanssouci palace and even managed to visit the beautiful Bundestag building.

Our most recent visit was in April 2019, when we finally managed to go to Checkpoint Charlie and visit the Haus am Checkpoint Charlie and the WWII memorial exhibition at the Wall.

2003

At Hackesche court
At Hackesche court
At Hackesche court
At Hackesche court
Museum Island
The Berlin Dom
The Old National Gallery
The Pergamon museum
The Pergamon museum
Zeus’ temple in the Pergamon
In the Pergamon
In the Pergamon
Ishtar Gate in the Pergamon
In the Museum of Islamic Art in the Pergamon
In the Museum of Islamic Art in the Pergamon
The Dom
The Antiquities Collection
The Dom with the TV tower
On Unter den Linden
Inside the Dom
Inside the Dom
In Alexanderplatz
In the TV tower
Humboldt University
The German Chancellery
The Bundestag
The main train station in construction
On Ku’damm
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
KaDeWe store on Ku’damm
The Philharmonic
Sony Center
Remaining wall
Springer Verlag
The Jewish Memorial
At Checkpoint Charlie
Gendarmermarkt
The Red Town Hall
At the Brandenburg Gate for Sylvester celebrations
At the Brandenburg Gate for Sylvester celebrations
At the Branderburg Gate for Sylvester celebrations

2012

A Trabant in the DDR Museum
The borders of the East Germany
The DDR Museum, across the Berliner Dom
On Unter den Linden
In Pariser Platz
Brandenburger Tor
In Pariser Platz
The Parliament Building
In Tiergarten
A Lego giraffe
Sony Centre in Potsdamer Platz
At Sony centre in Potsdamer Platz
At Sony centre in Potsdamer Platz
Christmas market in Potsdamer Platz
The Reichstag building
The Chancellary building
The Brandenburg Gate (from the East Side)
The DDR Museum, across the Berliner Dom

2019