Return of History

The Wall is probably the best-known symbol of the Cold War. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy quoted in his speech on March 17, 2022 in the German Bundestag, the American President Reagan ("Mr. Gorbatshov, tear down this wall."), and at the same time referred to the resurgent East-West conflict. While the Times published the “Return of History”. So, the Berlin Wall is back in our minds, not physically, but as a feeling, as an attitude.


Archive photos of the Stiftung Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Foundation) - digitally processed, converted in black-white and current color photographs from Berlin showing the everyday normality, the banal and tourist positions.

Stopp warZ
Black/White print: Albrecht Roos
Stiftung Berliner Mauer

Tomorrow is yesterday's today
Black/White print: Hans-Joachim Grimm
Stiftung Berliner Mauer

The new old borderline
Black/White print: Monika Waack
Stiftung Berliner Mauer

Leaving the American Sector
Black/White print: Edmund Kasperski
Stiftung Berliner Mauer

The Kiss at the junkyard of the Berlin Wall
Black/White print: Monika Waack
Stiftung Berliner Mauer

History repeating - Potsdamer Platz
Black/White print: privat
Stiftung Berliner Mauer

Barbed wire in the heads
Black/White print: Wolfgang Schubert, Donation Brigitte Schubert
Stiftung Berliner Mauer

Russia is watching us
Black/White print: Edmund Kasperski
Stiftung Berliner Mauer

East West Estrangement
Black/White print: Edmund Kasperski
Stiftung Berliner Mauer