In Berlin you can go to East in many ways...

 ...Yes, and we began this time in seeing Berlin from below...Amazing.

 

The Society for the Exploration and Documentation of Subterranean Architecture (Berliner Underwelten e.V.) has organized guided tours of different kinds to the underground structures of the city. And we went under the former Berlin Wall, to one of the escape tunnels from East- to West-Berlin.

There are lots of memorials in Berlin as in Berlin as many things have happen here during the history. Among them many memorials from the time of West- And East-Berlin. Well, during the past 30 years I have visited them all....

I remember when I for the first time visited East-Berlin. It was the year 1984 and us making an Interrail, one of the 6 Interrails I have made during my life. Yes, we crossed the border at Friedrichsstrasse S-Bahn, the memorial place now called "Tränenpalast"or the "Palace of Tears".

And the year 1995 I was once again in "Tränenpalast" during my 1,5 years stay in Berlin. But this time it was not a border crossing, not any more but a concert of in east popular rock band "Silly" in "Tränenpalast". A very memorable concert for me! 

And couple of days ago and now being the year 2016 I visited "Tränenpalast", of course and it now having an exhibition telling of border-crossings and destinies of border-crosses.

But you maybe begin your Berlin-visits with Checkpoint Charlie, with DDR-Museum and with the Museum of Everyday Life in East-Berlin. To get an overview, I mean...

By the way, the Berlin Wall Museum originates from the year 1962 when the Berlin Wall was built. I visited this museum already in the times as East- and West-Berlin. When they still existed...

Well, when I return to home I will look for you some photos from the past...

Architecture and Design: From Jugendstil to Bauhaus

In 3 years the Bauhaus has a centenary, so 100 years of Bauhaus! 

You can check here what happens then. And well, Jugendstil-Art Nouveau is already older than that.

If you visit Germany there is plenty to see if you are interested in "Bauhaus". 

You should visit Dessau and Weimar, of course. And up to that the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin. I myself only now visited it and will visit in incoming years once again. Weimar and Dessau were in my programme already 20 years ago.

If you think about Jugendstil or Art Nouveau it is interesting to compare those. How Jugendstil/Art Nouveau manifests in Germany vs. France...According to which one you like the most indicates also you character. Try it and you will notice.

You can check it in Berlin in the Bröhan-Museum.

Espionage in Berlin?

Have you already visited the new Espionage Museum of Berlin existing from the year 2015 on? If not, you should.

Issues for the Bond-movie fans.

Issues from real life from gadgets to stories of animals as spies...Enigma machine of course too. 

The museum in Berlin as Berlin being the centre for east-west espionage. In the history at least. From these shoe-cameras above into my mind came also  "Get Smart" TV agent serie from the 60's. Have you seen it? Other very good agent TV series from that time are for example "The Man from U.N.C.L.E" and "Avengers". Check them!

Thanks to my husband we have watched them as well as many Berlin espionage movies. Here for you a short list of Berlin spymovies given to me by my husband.

Genre Eurospy:
For Eyes Only / Streng geheim (1963, János Veiczi)
Spy In Your Eye / Bang You're Dead / Berlino appuntamento per le spie
(Operazione Polifemo) (1965, Vittorio Sala)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965, Martin Ritt)
Funeral in Berlin (1966, Guy Hamilton)
The Quiller Memorandum (1966, Michael Anderson)
Torn Curtain (1966, Alfred Hitchcock)
Dead Run / Geheimnisse in goldenen Nylons (1967, Christian-Jaque)
Tiffany memorandum (1967, Sergio Grieco/Terence Hathaway)
A Dandy in Aspic (1968, Anthony Mann)

Newer ones:
Octopussy (1983, John Glen)
Bridge of Spies (2012, Steven Spielberg)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E (2015, Guy Ritchie)

Well, some more photos when back at home...

To Berlin once again, and more adventures soon (Photo)