Berlin - Schicksalsjahre einer Stadt

The Bundestag decides to move to Berlin. Hundreds of thousands demonstrate against the war in Iraq, the first trial of the Wall is held and "Treuhand" becomes a synonym for liquidation for many East Berliners. (Text: rbb)

For the first time, GDR citizens are able to inspect their Stasi files, a department store blackmailer named Scrooge makes headlines and all of Berlin mourns the loss of Marlene Dietrich and Willy Brandt. (Text: rbb)

Erich Honecker is released from prison and leaves Berlin for Chile, the West Berlin Schillertheater is closed and Union Berlin is thrown out of the Second League. (Text: rbb)

The department store blackmailer Scrooge is caught after years of hunting, the Allies leave Berlin, the American President Bill Clinton arrives in the city and a bizarre nude campaign causes a stir in the Berlin election campaign - these events mark the year 1994 (source: rbb).

The Reichstag is veiled, a bank robbery keeps the city in suspense and Bruce Springsteen sings in a café in Prenzlauer Berg. (Source: rbb)

Cranes dance in the ballet at Potsdamer Platz, the Kaisersaal floats on air cushions, the Pope comes to visit and the dream of a state marriage between Berlin and Brandenburg bursts. (Source: rbb)

In Berlin things are moving forward: the Reichstag gets its dome, the Adlon opens, Hertha BSC climbs back up to the first Bundesliga and the whole city is in fear of Brandenburg at the Oder flood. (Source: rbb)

After 16 years, Helmut Kohl (CDU) is voted out of office and Gerhard Schröder (SPD) becomes the new Chancellor of the Germans, Potsdamer Platz is ceremonially opened and Berlin experiences the worst gas explosion in post-war history. (Source: rbb)

Parliament and government move from Bonn to Berlin in the capital, a solar eclipse makes the Berliners pause for a moment and all of Berlin is in millennium fever: What will the change of date bring? (Source: rbb)