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.
West Germany
Letter from...: Fall of the Berlin Wall: the 20th anniversary
PHOTO GALLERY: A now and then peek at the East/West German border
Photographer Jürgen Ritter spent much of the eighties recording the East/West German border. Over 20 years on, he revisits the sites to compare how much they’ve changed, moving from death strips to kids’ soccer ovals.
