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6 unusual facts about East Berlin


Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (East Berlin) (Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin) founded in 1923 and situated in East Berlin during the Cold War

Col. Gail Halvorsen Award

During this tour, Col. Halvorsen began his own mission, operation Little Vittles, in which he dropped parachutes containing candy to the children of both east and west Berlin.

Knud Möller

Möller worked as correspondent in Paris from 1966-1969 and in East Berlin from 1974 to 1978.

Neuer Marstall

It was partly repaired by the East Berlin government from 1950–54 and then further restored in 1961–65.

Nikolai Tomsky

His distinctive red-granite Lenin stood in the Leninplatz of East Berlin from 1970 to 1992.

Ödipussi

The première of the movie was on March 10, 1988 at 16:00 in East Berlin and in the evening in the West.


Acoustic Kitty

Although it is not entirely clear on whether he is the originator of the concept, British author Len Deighton prefigured the concept of Acoustic Kitty in his novel, Billion Dollar Brain (1966), where the unnamed hero (Harry Palmer) notes that "Even the cats of East Berlin are wired" for sound recording.

Aeroflot Flight 892

Aeroflot Flight 892 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Minsk to East Berlin, which crashed on 12 December 1986 due to pilot error, killing seventy-two of the eighty-two passengers and crew on board.

Ahrensfelde

Parts of the municipal area near Ahrensfelde station were overbuilt and finally incorporated into the East Berlin borough of Marzahn in 1990.

Alfred Bengsch

During his tenure in Berlin, he was given a monthly permission to cross the Wall to minister to the Eastern portion of his flock.

American Mormon

This included an in-depth discussion with LDS members who lived in West and East Berlin during the fall of the Berlin Wall and a visit to the Gadfield Elm Chapel, the oldest LDS meetinghouse on earth, in Herefordshire, England.

Amerika Haus Berlin

During these years the Amerika Haus Berlin was particularly popular with the citizens of East Berlin, which was under Soviet occupation and, from 1949 onwards, a socialist state represented by the Communist Party of Germany.

Bermudian Springs School District

The district includes the Boroughs of East Berlin and York Springs, as well as the village of Idaville, Huntington Township, Latimore Township, Reading Township and a small part of Hamilton Township.

Brigitte Reimann

Brigitte Reimann (b. 21 July 1933, Burg bei Magdeburg, d. 22 February 1973, East Berlin) was a German writer who is best known for her posthumously published novel Franziska Linkerhand.

Eyck Zimmer

He then worked in a number of well-known hotels in Europe, Palasthotel (East Berlin), Grand Hotel Regina (Grindelwald, Switzerland), The Dorchester (Mayfair, London), The Berkeley (London), The Lanesborough (London), Claridge's (London), The Ritz (London), Choupana Hills in Madeira and the Lowry Hotel in Manchester, UK.

Frau Farbissina

This is another reference to Anna Quayle's "Frau Hoffner" role in the 1967 film Casino Royale, in which Hoffner heads an international spy school in East Berlin known as the "Mata Hari School of Dancing", where she boards and trains young women to be agents for both sides of the Cold War.

Friedrichstraße

During the Cold War and division of Berlin, the Friedrichstraße underground station, despite being located in East Berlin, was utilized by two intersecting West Berlin S-Bahn lines and the West Berlin subway line U6.

German Alternative

This guise of the DA organised militia training camps in East Berlin and established close links with other groups and with international figures such as Gary Lauck.

Herbert Nachbar

Herbert Nachbar (12 February 1930 Greifswald – 25 May 1980 East Berlin) was a German writer resident in the German Democratic Republic.

History of transport in China

CAAC had 274 air routes, including 33 international flights to 28 cities in 23 countries, such as Tokyo, Osaka, Nagasaki, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Frankfurt, East Berlin, Zurich, Moscow, Istanbul, Manila, Bangkok, Singapore, Sydney, and Hong Kong.

İsmail Bilen

İsmail Bilen (1902 in Çinçiva village, Vija, Ottoman Empire – November 18, 1983 in East Berlin, GDR) was a Turkish politician.

Jorge Arrate

From 1967 to 1969 Arrate studied in the U.S. and from 1973 to 1987 he lived in exile in Rome, East Berlin and Rotterdam.

Julius Bürger

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Simone Young, Toccata Classics (2006)

Jurek Becker

After completing his national service in the East German army in the 1950s, during which time he became firm friends with the actor Manfred Krug, Becker studied philosophy in East Berlin but was expelled for expressing non-conformist views.

Kapelle der Versöhnung

With the division of Berlin in 1945, the church building found itself within the Soviet sector of the divided city of Berlin, with most of the parishioners in the neighbouring French sector.

Karl Leonhard

Karl Leonhard (March 21, 1904 in Edelsfeld, Kingdom of Bavaria – April 23, 1988 in East Berlin, GDR)

Leonid Stein

Further international tournament victories were scored at East Berlin 1962, Sarajevo 1967, Hastings 1967–68, Kecskemét 1968, Tallinn 1969, Pärnu 1971, and Las Palmas 1973.

Martin-Gropius-Bau

Until the end of the cold war in 1990 the building stood on the border between East and West Berlin, at the sector boundary to the East Berlin district of Mitte.

Mike Fenner

Mike Fenner (born 24 April 1971 in East Berlin) is a retired German hurdler.

Otto Suhr

He had to cope with the forceful SED merger of Social Democrats and Communists in the Soviet occupation zone and East Berlin, the Berlin Blockade and the final division of the city, when the assembly was compelled to move into the Rathaus Schöneberg in the American sector.

Prenzlauer Allee

The arterial road connects the centre of former East Berlin at Alexanderplatz via Karl-Liebknecht-Straße with the far north-eastern districts and the orbital motorway Berliner Ring (BAB 10) via the Bundesautobahn 114.

Rafał Blechacz

He has also performed with the Russian National Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and the Wiener Symphoniker.

Thomas Welz

As head of the information department, he was editor and author of several illegal samizdat publications with Rainer Eppelmann of the peace circle of the East Berlin Samariterkirche (Church of the Good Samaritan) in Berlin-Friedrichshain.

Yolanda Varela

Among her most important films are, Dos tipos de cuidado (1953) alongside Golden Age-idols Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete, Llamas Contra el Viento and El Niño y el Muro (1965), the film was about the segregation and violence situation in Western Europe, it was directed by Ismael Rodriguez and filmed in East Berlin, Germany.


see also

Dynamo Berlin

SC Dynamo Berlin, a multi-sports club in East Berlin from 1954 to 1991

East Berlin Academy

Prussian Academy of Arts, an art school which became the German Academy of Arts in East Berlin and then was merged into the Academy of Arts

East Germany at the Olympics

The German Democratic Republic (GDR), often called East Germany, founded a separate National Olympic Committee for socialist East Germany on 22 April 1951 in the Rotes Rathaus of East Berlin.

Jane and Louise Wilson

Jane and Louise Wilson's work together includes multiscreen video installations and photo-pieces; their artworks often feature institutional spaces, for example an oil rig, the archives of the Stasi in East Berlin (the building had previously been used by the Nazis and Stalin's Russia), The Houses of Parliament, and the Apollo Pavilion in Peterlee designed by Victor Pasmore.

Jens Reich

On 4 November 1989, Jens Reich, along with Friedrich Schorlemmer, Christa Wolf, Ulrich Mühe and other well-known figures in the GDR, was one of the speakers at the Alexanderplatz demonstration in East Berlin, the largest demonstrations held at that time.

Vorkuta Gulag

Two other illegally detained Americans were Private William Marchuk, of Norristown, Pennsylvania, kidnapped in East Berlin in 1949 and expatriate, John H. Noble, 31, of Detroit, Michigan who was arrested by the Red Army in Dresden, Germany in 1945.

Wolf Biermann

Wolf Biermann: "Chausseestraße 131" (LP, 1969): recorded in his home in East Berlin, published in the West.