SZ Photo - Views of the Berlin Wall 1961-1990

13.08.1981 - Tourists on the lookout tower on Bernauer Strasse in the Wedding district on the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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18.06.1981 - GDR border guards patrol in the restricted area of ??the Berlin Wall along the Bernauer Strasse in the district of Wedding. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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13.08.1981 - Tourist on the observation tower at the Berlin Wall. Bernauer Strasse in the district of Wedding. In the background: the district of Mitte [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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04.08.1981 - The Berlin Wall on Bernauer Strasse in the district of Wedding. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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04.08.1981 - Barriers at the Berlin Wall in the area of ??Bernauer Strasse in the district of Wedding In the background: the district Prenzlauer Berg [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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05.09.1981 - Berliners are looking into the eastern part of their city. The Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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28.01.1985 - The Berlin Wall at Bernauer Strasse in the district of Wedding. Great crowd for a lookout after the demolition of the Reconciliation Church in the restricted area. [XPAEXPORTID0030...
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28.01.1985 - The Berlin Wall at Bernauer Strasse in the district of Wedding. In the restricted area, the remains of the blown Reconciliation Church. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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28.01.1985 - The Berlin Wall on Bernauer Strasse in the district of Wedding [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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16.08.1985 - View over the Wall on the Brandenburg Gate with the sign "Attention you are leaving West Berlin now". [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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06.08.1985 - A sign on the Berlin Wall in the Wedding district informs about the end of the French sector. The Wall is in this section in the state from 1961. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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10.06.1985 - The stables of a riding and pony club abut directly on the Berlin Wall in the district of Neukoelln. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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11.06.1981 - Observation tower on the Berlin Wall in the Stresemannstrasse in the district of Kreuzberg. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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06.07.1986 - A watchtower guards the no-man's-land at the Berlin Wall on Liesenstrasse in the district of Wedding. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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01.07.1988 - At the end of May 1988, several hundreds of people occupied a site in the immediate vicinity of the Wall to protest against the construction of a motorway. As a result, there were...
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08.11.1988 - Tourists on a viewing platform in front of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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03.04.1988 - Berlin - tourists at Potsdamer Platz. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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24.03.1988 - Children playing on the Berlin Wall in the Zimmerstrasse in the Kreuzberg district. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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04.03.1988 - Crossing point at Friedrichstrasse / Zimmerstrasse Checkpoint Charlie in the Kreuzberg district, one of the passages of the Berlin Wall. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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30.05.1987 - Opponents of the 1987 census stick tens of thousands of registration forms to the Berlin Wall during a spectacular campaign and thus celebrate the 750th anniversary of the city of...
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30.05.1987 - Opponents of the 1987 census stick tens of thousands of registration forms to the Berlin Wall during a spectacular campaign. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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13.08.1985 - GDR border guard in the watchtower in the restricted area in the district of Kreuzberg. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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03.08.1985 - GDR border guards patrol in the border area on the site of the former Nordbahnhof in the district of Mitte. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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08.08.1985 - East German border guard monitors Grenzpioniere (border pioneers) working on the modernization of the Wall in the district of Wedding. In August 1985, the GDR authorities begin to...
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07.08.1985 - Grenzpioniere working on the modernization of the Wall in the district of Wedding.In August 1985, the GDR authorities begin to upgrade the last section of the Berlin Wall with an o...
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01.01.1972 - The Wall in Berlin with the death strip and tank barriers seen from East Berlin. [XPAEXPORTID003008]
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02.06.1988 - Graffiti on the Berlin Wall. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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01.01.1980 - A worker peers through the barred window of the "Neue Zeit" printing plant, the organ of the CDU in the GDR, in the Zimmerstrasse at the Berlin Wall. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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01.01.1980 - The Wall in Berlin's Kreuzberg district. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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01.01.1984 - Barrier at the railway border crossing Staaken at the Berlin Wall, photographed from Berlin-West in the years 1984-1987. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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01.01.1984 - Teenagers in a meadow in front of the Wall at Berlin-Zehlendorf, photographed from Berlin-West in the years 1984-1987. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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01.01.1985 - View over the Berlin Wall into the Bernauerstrasse, in the background is a woman with a pram in front of a building with the inscription "Klub der Volkssolidaritaet" (Club of the P...
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01.01.1985 - The Berlin Wall and the border strip at night. [XPAEXPORTID003004]
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01.01.1962 - Undated photo of the sector boundary on Bernauer Strasse in Berlin-Wedding with the Church of Reconciliation in the border zone behind the Berlin Wall. [XPAEXPORTID003007]
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01.01.1961 - View of the barbed wire fence of the Berlin Wall near Spandau. [XPAEXPORTID003007]
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01.01.1972 - Overview of the border fortification facility at the sector border in Berlin. Several tank barriers are placed between a wall and a mesh fence. In the background, West Berlin. [XPA...
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01.01.1970 - Aeroview of the Berlin wall. Here the sector border 12: Bernauerstrasse-Wedding with the Versoehnungskirche in the border strip. Undated picture. [XPAEXPORTID003007]
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01.01.1970 - Undated picture of a passerby on the Berlin Wall in Sebastianstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg. [XPAEXPORTID003007]
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01.01.1972 - View from West Berlin (front) on death stripes and blocks of flats in East Berlin. [XPAEXPORTID003007]
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01.01.1972 - View from West Berlin (front) on the death strip and East Berlin. [XPAEXPORTID003007]
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01.01.1970 - A painter sketches a section of the Berlin Wall. (Undated photo) [XPAEXPORTID003007]
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01.05.1989 - View of part of the Wall with graffiti in West Berlin. [XPAEXPORTID003003]
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01.01.1980 - View of part of the graffiti-covered Berlin Wall near the Brandenburg Gate, behind it a watchtower of the GDR. [XPAEXPORTID003003]
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01.04.1989 - View of the graffiti-covered Berlin Wall from West Berlin. In the front a sign in the language ??of the Allied occupation forces: "You are leaving the American sector". [XPAEXPORTI...
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01.01.1987 - East (left) and West Berlin on both sides of the Wall, taken in Kreuzberg. [XPAEXPORTID003003]
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01.01.1987 - GDR border security facilities at the Berlin sector border in the district of Kreuzberg. [XPAEXPORTID003003]
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01.01.1987 - Towers of the GDR border security installations at the border in the district Kreuzberg in the light of dusk. [XPAEXPORTID003003]
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08.09.1983 - Berlin Wall from 1980 until ctober 1989, the, Germany [XPAEXPORTID003003]
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17.01.1980 - Photo of a bike patrol in the death zone, in the background an East Berlin street. [XPAEXPORTID003003]
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01.01.1980 - View over the Berlin Wall on the Brandenburg Gate and the fortifications installed all around. [XPAEXPORTID003003]
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01.01.1985 - View of the graffiti-covered Berlin Wall in Kochstrasse, Berlin-Kreuzberg. In the middle, a watchtower of the GDR. On the right, a sign with the inscription "You are leaving the Am...
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01.01.1980 - View of East Berlin skyscrapers behind the Berlin Wall on the corner of Lindenstrasse / Zimmerstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Undated photo. [XPAEXPORTID003003]
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01.01.1980 - Undated picture of East Berlin high-rise buildings behind the Berlin Wall. [XPAEXPORTID003003]
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01.01.1989 - View of the Berlin Wall at the Martin-Gropius-Bau. On the wall are several graffiti and logos, including "NSDAP" and SS runes. [XPAEXPORTID003003]
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01.01.1980 - Undated picture taken from Neukoelln on the death strip across the watchtower and residential buildings in Treptow. [XPAEXPORTID003003]
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07.02.1980 - A man with his dog walks along the wall at the inner German border in the Waldemarstrasse in West Berlin, Berlin-Kreuzberg. [XPAEXPORTID003003]
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01.12.1989 - Border guards of the GDR lead a border patrol even after the opening of the Berlin Wall on the west side of the still standing wall. [XPAEXPORTID002012]
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01.01.1980 - A couple walks towards the Berlin Wall. Behind the Wall, the picture shows a watchtower of the GDR border patrol and the Berlin Television Tower. Berlin Wall from 1980 until ctobe...
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01.07.1986 - A section of the Berlin Wall with watchtower in the background. [XPAEXPORTID003003]
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01.01.1970 - Undated image of a wall section, approx. 1980. [XPAEXPORTID003007]
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01.06.1988 - Overview and views of the Berlin Wall: Berlin's once busiest square, Potsdamer Platz, was a wasteland during the time of the Berlin Wall. In the background, East Berlin with the TV...
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01.01.1988 - View over the Berlin Wall on East Berlin, in the foreground are children in a car. [XPAEXPORTID003003]
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01.01.1989 - A wooden scaffolding in West Berlin from which people can look through the Wall. [XPAEXPORTID003003]
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11.11.1989 - Berlin, November 1989: After the opening of the GDR borders to the West (9.11.1989). Pedestrians from East Berlin, GDR, pass the border crossing. Wall opening at Schlesische Str. /...
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01.01.1988 - The Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate with a view to the TV Tower. The English appeal painted on the wall "Oh Berlin ..." ends with the call "... kick it down" ("... down with th...
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10.11.1989 - GDR border guards in uniform at Checkpoint Charlie / Zimmerstasse next to various signposts for border crossers and in front of a fire wall with the inscription "Neue Zeit". (New E...
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11.11.1989 - Berlin, November 1989: After the opening of the GDR borders to the West (9.11.1989). Pedestrians from East Berlin, GDR, pass the border crossing. Opening of the Wall at Schlesische...
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12.11.1989 - Berlin, November 1989: After the opening of the GDR borders to the West (9.11.1989). Pedestrians from East Berlin, East Germany, pass the provisional border crossing at Potsdamer P...
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01.01.1985 - A girl on the way to school along the colorfully painted Berlin Wall in Kreuzberg, in the background the St. Thomas Church or Thomaskirche at the northern end of Mariannenplatz, We...
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01.11.1989 - Berlin, November 1989: After the opening of the GDR borders to the West (9.11.1989). A group of people are sitting on the Berlin Wall holding up a poster with the inscription "Soli...
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01.01.1985 - Graffiti on the Wall in SO 36, Kreuzberg, near Mariannenplatz. The Berlin Wall colorfully painted with Liberty Statues, view from West Berlin. Photograph from around 1985. [XPAEXPO...
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11.11.1989 - An artist dressed as an angel for a photo-shoot, next to police officers from West Berlin. In the background are GDR border policemen on the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg...
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01.01.1990 - Graffiti by the French wall artist Thierry Noir (born 1958 in Lyon) at the wall in SO 36, Kreuzberg, near Mariannenplatz. The Berlin Wall colorfully painted with heads, view from W...
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01.11.1989 - A GDR border soldier patrols on the wall remains of the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate with Quadriga and GDR flag and red flags in front of it. View from West Berlin...
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12.11.1989 - Berlin, November 1989: After the opening of the GDR borders to the West (9.11.1989). Pedestrians from East Berlin, East Germany, pass the provisional border crossing at Potsdamer P...
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11.11.1989 - Border guards of the GDR on the Berlin Wall in conversation with police officers of West Berlin in front of the Brandenburg Gate. View from West Berlin to East Berlin, GDR. Photogr...
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01.01.1987 - View from West Berlin to the painted Berlin Wall and a GDR old building with facade and firewall in the Lohmuehlenstrasse in East Berlin. Left the GDR border control tower on the b...
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01.01.1990 - Graffiti on the Wall in SO 36, Kreuzberg, near Mariannenplatz. Colorfully painted Berlin Wall with yellow cat, in front of it a dog on the green area. View from West Berlin. Photog...
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01.01.1983 - Brightly painted Berlin Wall and parked cars on the Zimmerstrasse at the corner of Charlottenstrasse, SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, behind the GDR border control tower on the bord...
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01.11.1989 - GDR border police on the remains of the wall at the Brandenburg Gate, in the background the TV Tower. View from West Berlin to East Berlin. Photograph from 1989. [XPAEXPORTID003002...
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01.01.1990 - Observation platform in front of the painted Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie in SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, with a view of the facade with barred windows of an old GDR buildin...
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01.01.1990 - View of Checkpoint Charlie and the GDR border control installations from the viewing platform in front of the painted Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie in SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Be...
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01.11.1989 - GDR border police on the remains of the wall at the Brandenburg Gate. Inscription on the wall "Erich give it up". View from West Berlin to East Berlin. Photography from 1989. [XPAE...
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01.11.1989 - GDR border police on the remains of the wall at the Brandenburg Gate. View from West Berlin to East Berlin. Photography from 1989. [XPAEXPORTID003002]
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01.11.1989 - Group of people in front of the Berlin Wall at Potsdamer Platz, West Berlin, besides them is an escape route pictogram painted on the wall and a padlock. Photograph from 1989. [XPA...
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01.01.1990 - Wall strip at the children's farm in Kreuzberg, West Berlin, in the background the Church at Bethaniendamm. Photograph from around 1990. [XPAEXPORTID002011]
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01.01.1987 - The painted Berlin Wall in SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin. Photograph from around 1987. Photograph from around 1987. [XPAEXPORTID003002]
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01.11.1989 - GDR border police on the remains of the wall at the Brandenburg Gate. On the left the broadcasting van of Deutschlandfunk, today Deutschlandradio. View from West Berlin to East Ber...
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01.01.1990 - Walk along the Berlin Wall in Kreuzberg, in the background the St. Thomas Church or Thomaskirche at the northern end of Mariannenplatz, West Berlin. Photograph from around 1990. [X...
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01.01.1983 - Walk along the Wall in the evening light on the canal between Spree and Landwehrkanal, then SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, today Treptow, Berlin. Photograph from around 1983. [XPAE...
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01.01.1990 - Observation platform in front of the painted Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie in SO 36, Kreuzberg overlooking the facade with barred windows of a GDR old building on the border st...
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01.11.1989 - GDR border police on the remains of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate. In the background, the Brandenburg Gate with the Quadriga as well as a red and GDR flag. View from West...
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01.01.1983 - Walk along the Wall in evening light on the canal between Spree and Landwehrkanal, then SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, today Treptow, Berlin. Photography from around 1983. [XPAEXPO...
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01.01.1990 - On the border strip, GDR border guards patrol with a military Trabant. In the background the St. Thomas Church ( Thomaskirche) at the northern end of Mariannenplatz in Berlin-Kreuz...
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01.01.1983 - Walk along the Wall in evening light on the canal between Spree and Landwehrkanal, then SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, today Treptow, Berlin. Photography from around 1983. [XPAEXPO...
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01.01.1983 - The Berlin Wall on the canal between the Spree river and the Landwehr Canal, then SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, today Treptow, Berlin.View of the GDR control tower at the Lohmuehl...
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01.01.1983 - "You are leaving the American sector." Sign on the sector border in the 4 Allied languages English, Russian, French and German in front of the painted Berlin Wall in the Zimmerstr...
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01.01.1983 - Border strip. View from the bridge in Goerlitzer Ufer, West Berlin, to the GDR houses in the Lohmuehlenstrasse in East Berlin in the evening light. Photography from around 1983. [X...
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13.11.1989 - Making contact. A GDR border policeman looks through an opening in the Berlin Wall on a passerby on the West Berlin side. View from West Berlin to East Berlin, GDR. Photography fro...
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01.01.1990 - GDR border guards at Checkpoint Charlie / Zimmerstasse. On the firewall is the inscription "New era of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany". Photography from around 1990. [XP...
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01.01.1990 - Wall remains with graffiti in the Waldemarstrasse corner Leuschner Damm in Berlin-Kreuzberg, West Berlin. Colorfully painted Berlin Wall by "Indiano", alias Juergen Grosse. Photogr...
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01.01.1988 - Attention! You are now leaving West Berlin. Sign in front of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate with a view to the TV Tower. Looking towards East Berlin, GDR. Photography from...
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01.01.1990 - 3 tourists on the GDR border tower in Waldemarstrasse, Kreuzberg, West Berlin. In the background is the TV Tower in East Berlin, GDR. Photography from around 1990. [XPAEXPORTID0020...
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01.01.1983 - Border strip. View from the bridge in Goerlitzer Ufer, West Berlin, to the GDR houses in the Lohmuehlenstrasse in East Berlin in the evening light. Photography from around 1983. [X...
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01.01.1990 - The street corner Koepenicker Strasse / Fritz-Heckert-Strasse, border strip with hinterland wall. View from East Berlin (front) to old buildings of Kreuzberg. Photography from arou...
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01.11.1989 - GDR border police on the remains of the Wall at the Brandenburg Gate with GDR flag. View from West Berlin to East Berlin. Photography from 1989. [XPAEXPORTID003002]
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01.01.1990 - Winter walk on the Berlin Wall on Potsdamer Platz in winter, in the haze is the Esplanade (still in the old place). Photography from around 1990 // Winter walk along the Berlin Wal...
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01.01.1990 - East German street lamp, behind the border is a ruined building in West Berlin, Koepenicker Strasse, Kreuzberg. On the firewall is painted: "The border does not run between the nat...
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13.11.1989 - Women, children and an amateur photographer look through openings in the Berlin Wall to East Berlin, GDR. Photography from around 1989. [XPAEXPORTID002011]
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01.01.1983 - Border strip. View from the bridge in Goerlitzer Ufer, West Berlin, to the GDR houses in the Lohmuehlenstrasse in East Berlin in the evening light. Photography from around 1983. [X...
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01.11.1989 - Barrier with the note "Press only" (press cage) in front of a stairway to a viewing platform at the Berlin Wall (west side). In the background are policemen. Photograph from 1989....
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01.01.1990 - Wall strip at the Leuschner dam. On the left the hinterland wall on the GDR side, on the right the Berlin Wall on Leuschner dam, West Berlin, in between former borderland with GDR...
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01.01.1990 - View over the hinterland wall on the border strip towards East Berlin. A woman looks out the window at firewalls. Photographed around 1990. [XPAEXPORTID002011]
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01.01.1990 - Wall strip at the Leuschner dam. On the left the hinterland wall on the GDR side, on the right the Berlin Wall on Leuschner dam, West Berlin, in between the former borderland with...
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01.01.1983 - The Berlin Wall on the canal between the Spree river and the Landwehr Canal, then SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, today Treptow, Berlin.View of the GDR control tower on the Lohmuehl...
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01.01.1983 - Walk along the West-Berlin Wall on the canal between the Spree river and the Landwehr Canal, then SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, today Treptow, Berlin. View of the GDR control towe...
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01.01.1989 - GDR border guards leave the territory of the GDR in the direction of West Berlin. Photography from around 1989. [XPAEXPORTID003002]
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01.01.1983 - Walk along the Wall in evening light on the canal between Spree and Landwehrkanal, then SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, today Treptow, Berlin. Photography from around 1983. [XPAEXPO...
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01.01.1990 - A boy balancing on the Berlin Wall. In the background, GDR prefab buildings. View from Kreuzberg to East Berlin. Photography from around 1990. [XPAEXPORTID002011]
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01.01.1990 - Former borderland with GDR border control tower and patrol road. Turkish children cycling at the wall strip. Today there is the Engelbecken or Angel's Pool in the border area Berli...
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01.01.1989 - The colorfully painted Berlin Wall, at the Zimmerstrasse. Viewpoint near the corner of Charlottenstrasse at Checkpoint Charlie in SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, overlooking the gol...
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01.01.1990 - Wall opening, passers-by at the open Berlin Wall. View from the former border strip (GDR side), in the background the Bethanien-Kirche in Berlin Kreuzberg. Photography from around...
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01.11.1989 - GDR border police on the remains of the Wall at the Brandenburg Gate. On the left the broadcasting van of Deutschlandfunk, today Deutschlandradio. View from West Berlin to East Ber...
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01.01.1990 - People in front of the Berlin Wall in the Zimmerstrasse, next to Checkpoint Charlie, beside them is an escape route pictogram painted on the wall. Photography from around 1989/1990...
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01.01.1989 - GDR border guards leave the territory of the GDR in the direction of West Berlin. Photography from around 1989. [XPAEXPORTID003002]
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01.01.1983 - Walk along the Wall in evening light on the canal between the Spree and Landwehrkanal, then SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin, today Treptow, Berlin. Photography from around 1983. [XPA...
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01.01.1990 - Walk along the Wall. The partly degraded Berlin Wall with border fence. View of the former border strip (GDR side right), in the background the church at Bethaniendamm in Berlin Kr...
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01.01.1989 - GDR border guards leave the territory of the GDR in the direction of West Berlin. Photography from around 1989. [XPAEXPORTID003002]
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01.01.1989 - GDR border guards leave the territory of the GDR in the direction of West Berlin. Photography from around 1989. [XPAEXPORTID003002]
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01.01.1990 - The painted Berlin Wall in SO 36, Kreuzberg, West Berlin. Photography from around 1990. [XPAEXPORTID002011]
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