Weltzeituhr on Alexanderplatz In DDR times the square was the centre of East-Berlin
One of the many U-Bahn stations in Berlin. The subway network has 10 lines forming a public transit system of almost 150 km. Together with the S-Bahn (a net of metro-like suburban trains) the metro is the foundation of the quick public transport in the city, which is complemented by tram and citybus lines.
Subway sign near Potsdamer Platz
Trabants at Trabiworld. The Trabant was the people's car of the GDR. About 2,8 million were produced between 1963 and 1990.
View from Panoramapunkt on Potsdamer Platz
A deserted dead-end street very close to Potsdamer Platz hides this old DDR-watchtower. Orignally the tower was part of the Berlin Wall between Brandenburger Tor and Leipziger Platz.
The first towers of this type were built in 1966 and operational in 1969. At the end of the DDR-era more than 200 were part of the Wall and and served as observation post for the borderguards.
The tower in Erna-Berger-Straße is one of the few that was not directly demolished after the fall of the wall.
Today you can visit the tower.
Undoubtedly Berlin's touristtrap number-one is Checkpoint Charlie in Kreuzberg. Here on Friedrichstraße was once the famous cold-war bordercrossing between east and west.
There were constant attempts to escape East Germany; many were successful while others were not and ended in loss of life. The small car in the photo is an Isetta of 1964, it was reconstructed for escape purposes and had a place behind the seat of the car where the engine was. A refugee would stowaway and cross the checkpoint. Other inventive escapes included hot air balloons, kites, and a mini submarine.
Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin-Kreuzberg
Dome of the Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz
Street art in Kreuzberg
The Oberbaumbrücke is a double-deck bridge crossing Berlin's River Spree, considered one of the city's landmarks. It links Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg, former boroughs that were divided by the Berlin Wall, and has become an important symbol of Berlin’s unity.
Girls taking pictures at the East Side Gallery
Topographie des Terrors
Bouldering at Der Kegel, an indoor climbing gym on the RAW-gelände at Revaler Strasse 99 in Friedrichshain
The RAW-gelände is an alternative playground and place for expositions, concerts and parties. Inside the different buildings are several clubs, expositions and a skateboarding hall. RAW stands for Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk and is a former railway repair factory.
Because its a selforganized squatlike place theyre endangered by being bought-offand lose their facilities like so many alternative venues in Berlin these days.
Alternative crowd and they have medium known acts in concert too. Prices are medium too.
The prominent twin towers on Frankfurter Tor mark the end of the monumental Karl-Marx-Allee, one of the most impressive relics from the former East Berlin.
At 90m wide and 2.3km long, the boulevard starts starts at Alexander Platz and shows significant examples of the Zuckerbäckerstil, the socialist classicism architectural style of the Soviet Union.
Origanally the avenue was named Stalinallee and built by the GDR between 1952 and 1960. It was one of the major building projects of East Germany's reconstruction programme after World War II.
De-Stalinization led to the renaming of the street, after the founder of Marxism, in late 1961.
The Frankfurter Tor station, on the city's U-Bahn line U5, is located under the square.
Couple at Prater, Berlin’s oldest beer garden
"Nothing to see here" says a tourist-guide. The spot were Hitler's bunker was situated has only a sign that marks the place. To avoid
The Führerbunker was an air-raid shelter located near the Reich Chancellery. It was part of a subterranean bunker complex constructed in two phases which were completed in 1936 and 1944. It was the last of the Führer Headquarters (Führerhauptquartiere) used by Adolf Hitler, during the Second World War. Hitler took up residence in the Führerbunker on 16 January 1945 and it became the centre of the Nazi regime until the last week of World War II in Europe. Hitler married Eva Braun here during the last week of April 1945, shortly before they committed suicide.
After the war both the old and new Chancellery buildings were levelled by the Soviets. Despite some attempts at demolition, the underground complex remained largely undisturbed until 1988–89. During reconstruction of that area of Berlin, the sections of the old bunker complex that were excavated were for the most part destroyed. The site remained unmarked until 2006, when a small plaque with a schematic diagram was installed. Some corridors of the bunker still exist, but are sealed off from the public.
Punk rock legends The Ramones come from New York, but their biggest fan might just be from Berlin. Florian Hayler collected hundreds of Ramones-related items, and attended more than 100 Ramones concerts, then decided to collect his expertise and souvenirs in a museum. It debuted in 2005, a year after the death of founding band member Johnny Ramone.
The Ramones Museum can be found on Krausnickstr. 23, located just off Oranienburger Strasse near the New Synagogue.
Türkenmarkt on Maybachufer in Kreuzberg
The Holocaust Memorial remembers the Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide of World War 2
Street Food Thursday in Markthalle Neun
Bahnhof Zoo with Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche and Europa-Center
Entrance of Kino International
Abendstimmung in Kreuzberg
Platz der Luftbrücke near former Tempelhof Airport.
The Berlin Airlift Monument (Luftbrückendenkmal) commemorates the 78 people killed in accidents during the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 in which Tempelhof was the main airfield used. Its design features 3 arcs pointing west to symbolise the 3 air corridors that were the city's lifeline.
Tadshikische Teestube, a Central-asian tea parlor in the middle of Berlin
All pictures were taken between 13 - 16 May 2015 in the city of Berlin