In the summer of 1969 when this photograph was taken, the Television Tower was almost complete. (It was opened on 3rd October). The dome of Berlin Cathdedral can be seen, as well as the spire of St Mary's Chruch and, in the middle distance, the House of the Teachers and its Congress Hall also built in the 1960's. The photograph was taken from the roof of the Interhotel Berolina (built 1961-3, demolished 1996).

This was how it looked when I lived in Berlin in the mid-80s. It’s just a couple of hundred metres along from Checkpoint Charlie (as was). Now that it’s all gone, it’s hard to e…

In 1971, my parents and I visited East Berlin shortly after my 13th birthday. The adventure was on a whim, but the experience was a "life changer." If my memories of the city were not so vivid, I would attribute the faded, grey scenes to the camera and film I used at the time. Even…

By the summer of 1969 much building work remained to be done in East Berlin to repair the damage of the Second World War bombing.

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It’s 1983, and strange anarchic goings on are witnessed over the Berlin Wall

Photographer Stefan Koppelkamm first photographed East Germany in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall but before the reunification. He revisited the

Prenzlauer Berg, 1980s #berlin

Konsum grocery store, corner of Karl-Marx-Allee and Strasse der Pariser Kommune. This store specialized in "Fruits and vegetables from the People's Republic of Poland". Scanned from an Ektachrome slide