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Berlin Wall

June 2024

  • Hisham Matar

    Hisham Matar wins Orwell prize for political fiction

    The Pulitzer winner’s third novel My Friends is based on an event from 1984, when officials opened fire on protesters at the Libyan embassy in London

May 2024

  • Timothy Garton Ash

    A new cold war? World war three? How do we navigate this age of confusion?

    Timothy Garton Ash
    In history, as in romance, beginnings matter – so what we do now will be crucial in shaping the future, says historian Timothy Garton Ash

March 2024

  • Katja Hoyer

    What’s ‘wrong’ with east Germany? Look to its long neglect by the wealthy west

    Katja Hoyer
  • Three people in white overalls leave an old 1950s apartment block. There is red and white tape blocking access to the entrance.

    Daniela Klette: dog walker, dancer – and Germany’s most-wanted woman

January 2024

  • East German refugees flee through a gate near Sopron on 19 August, 1989.

    Book of the day
    The Picnic by Matthew Longo review – the party that pulled down the iron curtain

  • People celebrating on top of the dismantled Berlin Wall.

    Observer book of the week
    The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo review – a break for the border

December 2023

  • West Berliners queue to apply to make the crossing to East Berlin, 19 December 1963. For the first time since its erection, the Berlin Wall was opened for border crossings for 18 days over the Christmas period.

    From the Guardian archive
    The Berlin Wall is opened for Christmas – archive, 1963

    In December 1963, an agreement between East and West Germany allowed West Berliners to obtain one-day passes to visit relatives in East Berlin

November 2023

  • Olaf Scholz gives a speech in a synagogue

    Tensions high as Germany marks 85th anniversary of Nazi pogrom

    Kristallnacht marked with speeches and ceremonies, and chancellor decries spate of antisemitic incidents

October 2023

  • Voters lining up to vote in Warsaw, Poland

    Poland’s election result proves that every vote matters

    Letter: Steve Crawshaw, who reported on the country’s historic 1989 elections, says hope and belief created this result

June 2023

  • Sections of the Berlin Wall in The American Sector

    The American Sector review – US road trip to hunt down remnants of the Berlin Wall

  • David Bickford

    Intelligence service career informs former MI5 and MI6 man’s novel

May 2023

  • Dana Němcová

    Dana Němcová obituary

    Czech dissident and politician who fought for human rights in the Soviet crackdown following the Prague Spring

January 2023

  • A mural in Burg, Germany, commemorates the writer Brigitte Reimann.

    East German feminist author gets English debut, 50 years after death

    Translation of Brigitte Reimann’s 1963 work, considered a classic of GDR literature, is out in February

June 2022

  • Bruno Ganz in Wings of Desire.

    Wings of Desire review – Wim Wenders’ elegiac hymn to a broken cold-war Berlin

  • CND demonstration in Hyde Park, Monsignor Bruce Kent is pictured with flowers which the CND group were going to present to the Russian Embassy together with a formal letter against nuclear weapons, 16th July 1983. (Photo by Cairns/Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)

    Bruce Kent obituary

March 2022

  • Zelenskiy urges Germany to 'tear down wall' Russia is creating – video

    Volodymyr Zelenskiy has invoked the fall of the Berlin Wall in an attempt to persuade German MPs to do everything possible to halt Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

February 2022

  • Stasi employees film and photograph a demonstration from an apartment building in East Berlin, 1989.

    Observer book of the week
    The Stasi Poetry Circle review – East Germany’s unsettling war with words

    Philip Oltermann’s account of how the Stasi decided to use poems as a means of fighting capitalism is fascinating, strange and troubling

August 2021

  • Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees.

    In brief: The Island of Missing Trees; Tunnel 29; Vesper Flights – review

  • East German soldiers set up barbed wire barricades to restrict travel between the eastern and western part of Berlin. West Berlin citizens watch the work, 13 August 1961.

    From the Guardian archive
    Berliners wake to a divided city – archive, 1961

July 2021

  • Fourth-grade pupil, elementary school. Berlin-Wedding, 1976-78

    Split city: Michael Schmidt’s Berlin – in pictures

    From schoolchildren to squatters and punks, Michael Schmidt captured the people and buildings of his native Berlin – as well as its unique atmosphere in the shadow of the Wall. Now, a retrospective at the Jeu de Paume in Paris offers a complete overview of his groundbreaking images, taken between 1965 and 2014
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