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Silent cinema flourished in Germany during the Weimar years, and Berlin was immortalised in two particularly brilliant impressionist tributes: Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, and People on Sunday, which aimed to create a patchwork of ordinary Berliners' lives. This film, with its cast of non-professional actors and hidden camera, gets the pick - partly because of its extraordinary writing and directing credit roll. Virtually everyone - including Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann and Robert Siodmak - went on to make a name for themselves in Hollywood, after being forced out of Germany during the Nazi era.
Bahnhof Zoo; Nikolassee

In the late 70s and early 80s, West Berlin's reputation for radicalism and experimentation made it a mecca for youth at the time: but there was a dark side, encapsulated in this notorious film about a drug-addicted prostitute. Based on her memoir, Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, Uli Edel's film is the last word in Berlin misery, with the David Bowie soundtrack providing a patina of cold-as-ice glamour. Bahnhof Zoo was West Berlin's biggest rail station at the time, and the film-makers also shot extensively in Christiane's home district of Gropiusstadt, the southern suburb designed by the Bauhaus founder.
Gropiusstadt; Bahnhof Zoo

A much-liked film that cleverly tackles the issues surrounding German unification - by ignoring them. A fervent East German socialist misses the Wende (reunification) as she's in a coma; on her recovery, and to spare her further shock, her son goes to elaborate lengths to maintain the fiction that East Germany is still in existence. Almost all the film was shot in the former East Berlin, including shots of lead Daniel Brühl speeding past celebrating football fans on the monumental Karl-Marx-Allee.
Karl-Marx-Allee; Alexanderplatz

Andrew Pulver is the film editor of The Guardian

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Silent cinema flourished in Germany during the Weimar years, and Berlin was immortalised in two particularly brilliant impressionist tributes: Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, and People on Sunday, which aimed to create a patchwork of ordinary Berliners' lives.

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Weimar Berlin: Bittersweet Metropolis (1/6) - Philharmonia Orchestra

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For lang balmy Summer day and to get in the mood for the next Berlin trip with the right novel, we have picked out some exciting Berlin books for you.

Let yourself be taken away to the Berlin of past times, be it the Prussian Berlin of Theodor Fontane or the wild twenties with the thrillers of Kutscher or the books of Isherwood. Travel to the divided Berlin at the time of the Wall or to the post-reunification period with Lutz Seilers's current bestseller.

We picked out eleven Berlin novels for you to read, which are really worthwhile and perfect for a relaxing evening or a weekend.

Surely you will miss some famous books like The Children of Bahnhof Zoo or Russendisco, but we have deliberately chosen a few perhaps not-so-famous books that we would like to recommend to you.
Have fun reading.
Tip 1: Berlin Alexanderplatz

The classic Berlin novel par excellence: Alfred Döblin translates the tempo and attitude to life of the modern age, the 1920s, into his collage-like novels, thus creating a document of that time and at the same time a stirring, exciting novel. The latest film adaptation with Franz Bieberkopf as the fugitive Francis, who tries to remain a decent person in today's Berlin despite all temptations, is released on DVD and to stream
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Tip 2: Stern 111

The novel about post-reunification Berlin was on the bestseller lists in 220 and is certainly on its way to becoming a classic. Lutz Seiler draws a gripping panorama of the time after the fall of the Wall, when everything was still possible in Berlin. That time, when Berlin's legendary nightlife took place in the Oranienburger Straße with its pubs like the Assel, clubs and the Tacheles. By the way, you can see what it looked like there in the early 1990s in the great illustrated book Berlin Wonderland: Wild Years Revisited, 1990-1996.
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Tip 3: Die Effingers

You want to dive deep into a book and forget everything around you? Then pick up the family saga Die Effingers by Gabriele Tergit. The novel takes you into a time and a Berlin tthat has disappeared, into in the world of the Jewish-German bourgeoisie. The family chronicle spans over seventy years, from the late 19th century to after the Second World War, and tells of the rise of the Effinger family over some 900 pages. A German paperback version has just been released. Gabriele Tergit's satire on the media world Käsebier erobert den Kurfürstendamm is just as worth reading.
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Tip 4: The Artificial Silk Girl

Meet Doris - a Weimar Bridget Jones. Like Gabriele Tergit, author Irmgard Keun was long forgotten and her work was rediscovered only late. Her novel The Artificial Silk Girl (Das Kunstseidene Mädchen) was published in 1932 and tells the story of a young woman who tries to make ends meet in Berlin at that time and dreams of becoming a "shining". A great novel in form of a diary, which brings the dazzling Weimar Republic back to life and is simply fun to read with the direct, unvarnished language
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Tip 5: The Innocent

Ian McEwan is without doubt one of the most important voices in contemporary literature. His spy thriller The Innocent is set in post-war Berlin. The young Leonard Marnham comes to Berlin in 1955 to take part in a British-American secret service operation to bug the Soviets in a tunnel. He falls in love with a German woman, but things take a dramatic turn when her ex-husband appears on the scene. Then things get pretty dramatic! The author certainly lives up to his nickname Ian Macabre McEwan.
The film adaptation... and the sky stands still with Anthony Hopkins and Isabella Rossellini is unfortunately not quite so successful.
More about the Cold War in Berlin
Tip 6: Irrungen, Wirrungen (On Tangled Paths)

Theodor Fontane is one of the most famous Berlin authors ever, his wonderful novels still fascinate us. At the centre of Fontane's novel Irrungen, Wirrungen is the unhappy love between the noble Botho and the petty bourgeois Lene. It is set in 1870s Berlin and tells of the arrogance and social constraints of the time. At the same time it is a poignant love story and a portrait of Prussian Berlin.
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Tip 7: The Gift (Dar)

After fleeing from revolutionary Russia, Vladimir Nabokov lives in exile in Berlin for several years before he has to flee again, goes to the USA and writes his notorious novel Lolita. The Gift was published in 1938 and tells the story of a Russian writer in Berlin in the 1920s. A lot is about literature, but also about everyday observations such as a swimming trip to Grunewaldsee.
More about the 1920s in Berlin
Tip 8: Die Berlinreise

The diary of Hanns-Josef Ortheil tells of the journey he made to Berlin with his father in 1964 when he was twelve years old. In addition to the Berlin of the 1960s (for example a visit to the Philharmonie), the diary also deals with the time during the Second World War, when his parents lived in Berlin, and about which his father tells us again and again. And just as the boy's parents' past comes alive for the boy, so it does for us readers.
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Tip 9: Goodbye to Berlin

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome, Im Cabaret, au Cabaret, to Cabaret! You are probably more familiar with the musical Cabaret and its film adaptation with Liza Minelli than the underlying book by Christopher Isherwood. But this autobiographical collection of stories is a great snapshot of the time shortly before the Nazis seized power. Isherwood's memoirs Christopher and His Kind from 1976 also tell of his time in Berlin and his love for the German Heinz.
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Tip 10: Herr Lehmann

From the early thirties to the late eighties: Sven Regener's debut novel Herr Lehmann brings to life the Kreuzberg of the time when the Wall divided the city and Kreuzberg was wild and unadjusted. Mr. Lehmann stumbles through Kreuzberg without a perspective - until the Wall falls and a new era begins.
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Tip 11: Babylon Berlin

We have already presented the thrillers by Volker Kutscher in our blog, but unlike many of the historical (and often rather mediocre) Berlin thrillers they are not only exciting crime stories, but also excellent Berlin stories and portraits of that time. And if you haven't seen the Babylon Berlin series yet, it's perfect for a long bingewatching on a rainy weekend.
By the way, you can find our11 tips for Berlin crime stories here in our blog.
More about Babylon Berlin

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For lang balmy Summer day and to get in the mood for the next Berlin trip with the right novel, we have picked out some exciting Berlin books for you. Let yourself be taken away to the Berlin of past times , be it the Prussian Berlin of Theodor Fontane or the wild twenties with the thrillers of Kutscher or the books of Isherwood.

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Berlin's turbulent 20th century saw the city partially destroyed and then divided, the scars of which formed a remarkable cityscape that has inspired poets, writers and filmmakers alike. From stories of political oppression to tales of romance and adventure, here are 10 of the most captivating books set in Berlin.

Published in the same year as Fallada's death, this novel has secured his literary reputation to this day. Praised by Jewish-Italian author Primo Levi for its portrayal of domestic resistance to the Nazis, it concerns a couple, Otto and Anna Quangel, who lose their son in the fighting in France and begin to pen anti-war propaganda on a small scale. They distribute postcards and leaflets around their Berlin neighbourhood before their inevitable betrayal. Based on the real-life story of the Hampels, who were executed in 1943, this is a relentless and powerful portrayal of Berlin under the Nazis. Fallada's characters have a depth and charisma as well as a crude realism that makes them hard to forget.

Aridjis's debut novel takes as its main character a Mexican girl, Tatiana, who comes to modern-day Berlin and begins to trace the long and tortured legacy of the city's history. Book of Clouds delves into Berlin's dark past as the key to its future direction. After the fall of the Wall, Tatiana experiences a city busy with reconstruction and activity, but inevitably coloured by memory. Arguably, the main character of this novel is not Tatiana but Berlin itself; few novels provide such a sustained exploration of a place, and Berlin has been carefully chosen by Aridjis as a place created out of the ashes of its recent history.

Set at the beginning of the Cold War, Ian McEwan's The Innocent is both a spy novel and a classic romance. It revolves around Leonard Markham, who is working with Western intelligence organisations in their attempt to build a tunnel from the American to the Russian side of Berlin. Along the way he meets and falls in love with Maria Eckdorf, the first woman he ever sleeps with, hence his name 'the innocent'. McEwan's novel deals with its central theme of innocence on many levels as Leonard becomes gradually involved in the life of a city that is rife with betrayal, prejudice and superstition.

One of two novels in Isherwood's Berlin Stories, Goodbye to Berlin is told as a series of connected short stories which cover a large cast of characters, all resident in Berlin in the early 1930s, during the Nazis' rise to power. The novel is semi-autobiographical, concerning a main character, Christopher, who moves to Berlin to facilitate his writing, as Isherwood did during those years. This gives his portrait of Berlin an honesty and realism that is necessary to the best fiction. It takes as its focus a number of characters who have the most to lose from Nazi policies: a cabaret singer, a gay couple, a Jewish heiress. Isherwood's novel also inspired the renowned musical .

A classic of Weimar-era fiction, Döblin's masterpiece has often been compared to James Joyce's Ulysses, although its shifting style of montage is not strictly similar to Joyce's idiolect. It is, however, skilfully written, using multiple points of view and conjuring the chaos and deprivation of the working-class district around Alexanderplatz. Its central character, Franz Biberkopf, falls back into the criminal underworld having only just been released from prison. The novel traces his misfortunes as he becomes unable to escape the consequences of his choices. Berlin Alexanderplatz is frequently named one of the greatest novels of the 20th century.

Nabokov's final novel in Russian was written during his time in Berlin in the mid-1930s. It is set, however, during the previous decade and follows Fyodor, a writer and Russian émigré whose family have fled the Russian Revolution. The text portrays his love affair with Zina Mertz and his literary meetings among the émigré population. Nabokov's writing is brilliantly evocative, depicting a Berlin that is busy with intellectual life. It can also be read on a meta-fictional level as a novel about writing itself, tracing the great Russian writers by means of Fyodor's own aspirations and his dream to one day write a novel very close to the one Nabokov has actually written.

Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize (formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize), is the true story of life under Stasi observation. Funder is actually Australian but worked in Berlin during the mid-1990s, when she began to appeal for stories from the former East side of the city. The resulting collection is a wide-ranging narrative that encompasses not only those who attempted to resist Stasi rule, but also those who worked for the Stasi and the impact this had upon their own lives. Funder also deals with how those who lived under the regime have attempted to come to terms with continuing to live in the same streets and city as those who represented Stasi tyranny. Part of a regime that was toppled overnight, the work of reconciliation is not so speedy.

The narrator of Beatty's Slumberland is Ferguson W Sowell, aka DJ Darky, and he is on the trail of a jazz musician, the Schwa, who went to ground in East Germany. He traces him to a bar in West Berlin, known as Slumberland. What ensues is a witty and wonderful novel that addresses racial stereotyping by means of a narrative saturated in musical culture. It is also a portrait of Berlin around the fall of the Wall as the city undergoes sweeping transformation. Beatty's style is satirical with occasionally absurdist moments, but it is underwritten by a genuine consideration of cultural identity.

Schneider's novel about a divided Berlin raises intriguing questions, from how far the state determines one's own identity to how much time will be required to solve the problem of reconciliation. Whether or not we recognise this Berlin - which is still a recent memory for some - Schneider's short novel quickly became a classic when it was published in the mid-1980s. Its characters are lively and complex, and its narrative is a curious exploration, often functioning metaphorically, of what it means to cross the Wall that once separated the communist East from the capitalist West.

This post-reunification novel has been praised for its depiction of contemporary Berlin coming to terms with its modern identity. Timm's central character is a writer who, unable to begin his next book, instead takes on an article about potatoes. He travels to Berlin for research purposes, where he meets a potato expert who lives in what was once East Berlin. Midsummer Night is bizarre by turns, as the unnamed narrator becomes involved in a series of surreal incidents incorporating an entire cast of disaffected characters trying to find themselves within the new cityscape. Uwe Timm's offering brings the Berlin novel right up to date with a portrayal of this city that is both recognisable and relevant.

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We are so delighted with the victory of German national team over Brazilians - the hosts team of 2014 FIFA World Cup. That's why we decided to publish unscheduled virtual tour over Berlin, and thereby to congratulate the German fans and all football fans on a historic victory.

German national team did the impossible yesterday at the Mineirão stadium in the Brazilian city Belo Horizonte. In the semifinal Brazilian team lost with atypical football score - 7:1. Brazilians had never lose so much in the history of the world championships. Great game of German national team provided fantastic result, so we deservedly congratulate Germany.

And here are few facts about capital of Germany, Berlin.

Berlin is the largest city of Germany. Also Berlin is the second most populous city and the fifth largest city in the European Union. As for the architecture of Berlin, the city has retained some features of medieval buildings. In the 18-19 centuries there were created to outline the correct square, wide streets, grand ensembles and baroque buildings. After World War II in both parts of the city have been restored historic buildings and residential areas. And some new districts were added.

Today Berlin is a world cultural center. This is a major European transport hub and one of the most visited cities on the continent. Universities, research institutions and museums in Berlin are known worldwide.

Hallmark of Berlin, of course, are the world-famous Brandenburg Gate and Victory Column, but apart from them, and Berlin has another striking symbol expressing the openness and tolerance of the German capital - Berlin Bear.

Author of the virtual tour: Stas Sedov and Dmitry Chistoprudov

9 July 2014

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We are so delighted with the victory of German national team over Brazilians - the hosts team of 2014 FIFA World Cup. That's why we decided to publish unscheduled virtual tour over Berlin, and thereby to congratulate the German fans and all football fans on a historic victory...

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The rise and fall of East Germany’s Palace of the Republic

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From 1976 through 1990, the building in East Berlin served as a symbol of the communist state’s power. The “People’s Palace” was controversially destroyed — and yet remains present.

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My first time traveling in Germany after reunification

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Westerners in the East, Easterners in the West: On October 3, 1990, Germany officially united after decades of division. The DW Travel team looks back at memories of their first trips in their newly unified homeland.