Guided Tour Berlin Wall

When the Berlin Wall was no monument but real -  Former GDR prisoner shows the former death strip along the Berlin Wall

We start at Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn stadium and walk along the Eberswalder and Bernauer Straße to the Berlin Wall documentation center.

Especially at the Bernauer Straße the absurdity of the division of Berlin was obivous. The borderline between east and west was located on the sidewalk. The people on one side of the street lived in East-Berlin, but when they came out of the front door, they stepped into the West. You will hear stories about escape attempts via the roofs of the houses and tunnels, about successfull escapes and victims of border shootings.

I will show you, where the wall was situated between the districts of Prenzlauer Berg (East), Mitte (East) and Wedding (West), how the death strip was composed and how the wall was altered and “improved” during time.

The tour ends at the Berlin Wall documentation center, where we will see remains of the Wall and we will have a look on the original situation from the centers' watchtower.

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For an individual appointment send me an e-mail or call ++49 179 47 29 007.

Guided Tour Prenzlauer Berg - Helmholtz quarter

From Schoenhauser Allee to Stasi -  With Cliewe through his home district around Helmholtz square

We start at Schoenhauser Allee and walk through the Helmholtz quarter. As we walk through my home district, this is my most personal guided tour. I lived in all three streets of the so called LSD quarter, which has nothing to do with drugs, but with the name of the streets: Lychener-, Schliemann- and Duncker street. My old school is in Greifenhagener street. Till the day ov today you can see the bullet holes of WWII in the wall of the school building. On this tour you will not only hear my personal story, but also how this area evolved from the drawing board in 1850 to one of the centers of GDR opposition to the vivid living quarter of today. In 1991 the police classified the Helmholtz square as one of Berlins "dangerous places", today it is an urban retreat for families with children.

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For an individual appointment send me an e-mail or call ++49 179 47 29 007.

 

Guided Tour Prenzlauer Berg -Kollwitz quarter

Variety of an urban quarter -  With Cliewe around Kollwitz square

We walk from the subway station Eberswalder Straße to the water tower square (Wasserturmplatz). On this tour you will get an impression of different ways of living and of life in Prenzlauer Berg. The development of the district is connected with the rise of the city of Berlin at the end of the 19 th century. The Berlin Wall separated Prenzlauer Berg from the western part of Berlin. The former no man's land of death zone has become the Wall park (Mauerpark) – one of the most important and popular parks of Prenzlauer Berg. The tour will end near the synagogue in Rykestrasse, after the renovation the biggest preserved synagogue in Germany.
On this guided tour you will see surprising insights in ruinous and reconstructed courtyards and you will get to know how the district developed from working-class neighborhood in 1900, to one of the centers of GDR opposition in the 1980ies to the middle and upper-class quarter of today.

More information about this tour.
Regular tour dates see here.
For an individual appointment send me an e-mail or call ++49 179 47 29 007.