The Wall Tour at Bernauer Straße

Sunday, September 10, 2023 11:00 am – 1:00 pm CET/GMT+1 

Bernauer Str. 119, 13355 Berlin

If Paris was the "Capital of the Nineteenth Century," as Walter Benjamin thought, then Berlin -- arguably and catastrophically -- was the capital of the twentieth. After the Holocaust and the Second World War, both initiated in and planned from Berlin, the city was divided and quickly became the center of the emergent Cold War. From 1961 to 1989, the division of the world into East and West became concrete in the shape of the Wallrunning right through the city center and all around its western part. We will visit the Wall's most infamous and best-preserved stretch, along Bernauer Straße, and learn about its deeper political and economic origins and about its existential and everyday effects on the lives of the people, families and systems it separated. Tour led by Florian Becker.

Meeting Point: In front of the entrance to the Visitor Center of the Berlin Wall Memorial (Bernauer Str. 119, 13355 Berlin)

Part of the Berlin Weekend event series. Click here to see the full list of Berlin Weekend events.

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