Berlin - Schicksalsjahre einer Stadt

The era of squatting and illegal living begins on both sides of the wall. A circus opens in Potsdamer Platz's no man's land: the Tempodrom. The band Ideal is founded in West Berlin. (Text: rbb)

The house fight in West Berlin is at its climax and claims a dead man, Richard von Weizsäcker becomes the new Governing Mayor and the SEZ recreation centre opens in the east of the city. (Text: rbb)

The American President Ronald Reagan visits the western part of the city, in East Berlin the new bed house of the Charité is inaugurated and opposition members demand disarmament and freedom of opinion in the GDR in the "Berlin Appeal". (Text: rbb)

Udo Lindenberg appears in the East Berlin Palace of the Republic, in both parts of the city thousands of people demonstrate for peace and disarmament. With aerobics and pop gymnastics, the fitness wave captures West and East. (Text: rbb)

GDR citizens occupy the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany in East Berlin. In West Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen becomes governing mayor and boxing idol Bubi Scholz shoots his wife. (Text: rbb)

The Church of Atonement on the death strip on Bernauer Strasse is blown up, the largest Cold War agent exchange takes place on Glienicke Bridge and Princess Diana visits West Berlin for the first time. (Text: rbb)

Soviet head of state Mikhail Gorbachev visits East Berlin, a bomb attack is being carried out on the disco "La Belle" in West Berlin, and people on both sides of the wall are afraid of the Chernobyl nuclear cloud. (Text: rbb)

Berlin celebrates its 750th anniversary. In Kreuzberg there are riots for the first time on 1 May. And US President Reagan demands that the Berlin Wall be torn down during his visit to Berlin. (Text: rbb)

In East Berlin there is increasing resistance against state power, the evacuation of the Lenné Triangle leads to a mass flight over the Wall to East Berlin and Bruce Springsteen rocks Weißensee. (Text: rbb)

The Wall falls, Berlin becomes one again! Before that, West Berlin celebrates the first Love Parade and elects Walter Momper as the new Governing Mayor. In East Berlin, people protest against the SED regime. (Text: rbb)

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