On August 13, 1961, under the cover of darkness, East German authorities sealed the border between East and West Berlin using a hastily constructed barbed wire

"On August 13, 1961, under the cover of darkness, East German authorities sealed the border between East and West Berlin using a hastily constructed barbed wire

People often associate postwar Germany with technology and with its products of mass consumption, such as luxury cars. Even pop music, most notably Kraftwerk (l

For years following reunification, Berlin was the largest construction site in Europe, with striking new architecture proliferating throughout the city in the 1

An alternative history of art in Berlin, detaching artistic innovation from art world narratives and connecting it instead to collective creativity and social s