The Berlin May Day riots have become an institution — a spectacle of violence attracting people from all over Germany to the suburb of Kreuzberg, writes Anna Saulwick from Berlin.
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Letter from...: Fall of the Berlin Wall: the 20th anniversary
The overzealous, over-event-managed celebration of 2009 — with circuitous, one-way routes, logjam entries and cops with machine guns — was a strange ossification of the spontaneity of 1989, writes Ben Gook from Berlin.
Was the fall of the Berlin Wall a planned government plot?
Was the iconic fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago not due to the accepted story of a stuff up at a press conference and then a spontaneous protest, but rather a well orchestrated political plan between both governments?
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PHOTO GALLERY: Pulling the strings over Berlin
In an amazing display of art, man power and pulleys, two giant puppets — Big Giant and the Little Giantess — walked Berlin’s streets as part of celebrations for the 20 year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Berlin Wall gets a makeover
Artists who have previously painted murals on the Berlin Wall have returned to give them a spruce up in celebration of the 20 years since the wall fell.
Mayday! Mayday! Berlin’s Left implodes
And so it comes around again, the tiresome ritual of rocks and bottles, batons and boots. Ben Gook reports from the Berlin barricades.
Letter from...: Berlin
On a typically sodden Berlin afternoon in late March, Ben Gook witnessed a protest in Germany’s capital.
