Alexanderplatz .
spire of St. Mary's Church
Rathauspassagen and Rotes Rathaus
I recently read with great profit, the book
"Alexanderplatz
Photographic and literary memoirs
of
For me, a jewel of history in words and pictures.
written down in the memories of Authors
is the place in my opinion too bad.
Certainly there is from an urban planning perspective
not hinwegzuredende arguments
may take the place as a symbol of the self-aspiring seeing
socialist German state,
many a legacy with it, I
like him.
As a child, aged around 10-12 years the place for me, the "city" was.
drove Occasionally I take the S-Bahn to Alexanderplatz,
rose in the subway to pick up my father from work.
That was always an experience.
The "World Festival of Youth 1973, I have seen on this place, pulled
as the death of Walter Ulbricht, whose coffin
on a gun carriage, vanished on the Spandauer Str my eyes.
memory chunks. could
was to my apprenticeship for a short time at the height of the current Nicolai district in a temporary Barack from my job,
6:00 clock to drink in the "Tute"
his first cup of coffee ...
The TV Tower, the department store, the world clock ....
Somehow I cross this place every day,
I like him.
