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David Lomax obituary

11 Sep 2014: Respected BBC current affairs journalist, he interviewed Idi Amin, talked to Irish terrorists, reported from Zimbabwe and covered the conflict in Beirut
From the archive, 18 August 1962: Grim scenes at Berlin Wall as refugee left to die

18 Aug 2014: Originally published in the Guardian on 18 August 1962: Peter Fechter, an 18-year-old bricklayer, was shot by East German guards as he attempted to cross the Berlin Wall a year after it was erected
Manfred Wekwerth obituary

11 Aug 2014:
German theatre director who staged notable productions of the plays of Bertolt Brecht
An Iron Curtain cycle trail may peddle the delusion that borders don’t exist

26 Jul 2014: Agata Pyzik: The Berlin Wall may be gone, but making a sightseeing tour of the cold war must act as a reminder that today’s Europe is not united
Collapse of the USSR – in pictures

14 Jul 2014: The last Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev initiated reforms that ultimately led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Here are some of the key moments:
Michael Schmidt obituary

28 May 2014:
German photographer who recently won the Prix Pictet for his series exploring global food production
Thierry Noir: the first graffiti artist fired up by the Berlin Wall

3 Apr 2014:
Monstrous as the Wall was, it offered artists like Noir – and musicians like Bowie – a dark subject matter that is lacking in safe consumerist societies, writes Jonathan Jones
Graffiti in the death strip: the Berlin wall's first street artist tells his story

3 Apr 2014: Thierry Noir was the first to daub the ultimate symbol of communist repression with cartoonish graffiti, and his creations became world famous. Here, he talks about playing cat and mouse with the death strip guards, meeting Wim Wenders, and what happened when the wall came down
David Bowie's catharsis in divided Berlin revealed in adapted V&A show

2 Mar 2014: V&A's fastest-selling show to open in Berlin – a city that has had a profound effect on the singer's music and thinking
Rory MacLean's top 10 Berliners in literature

26 Feb 2014:
Rory MacLean: From Sally Bowles in Goodbye to Berlin to Alec Leamas in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Berlin's literary inhabitants bring the city alive
Berlin: Imagine a City by Rory MacLean – review

23 Feb 2014:
Rory MacLean's history of Berlin encompasses five centuries in vivid, imaginative detail, writes Clare Wigfall
Divided Germany appears as year of war and wall anniversaries begins

2 Jan 2014:
It is the legacy of reunification rather than that of two world wars that some in Germany say needs reflecting on in 2014
This Ain't California: watch the trailer for a documentary about East Germany's skateboard scene - video

Video (1min 50sec), 22 Nov 2013:
Marten Persiel's documentary about East Germany's skate scene describes how three friends smuggled a skateboard across the Berlin Wall
Escape to West Berlin, August 1961 - a picture from the past

Picture, 15 Aug 2013:
On 15 August 1961, two days after tearing up streets and installing barbed wire fencing to prevent the free movement between East and West Berlin, the East German authorities begin building a wall to permanently seal the border and prevent access to the West
Walls: Travels Along the Barricades by Marcello Di Cintio – review

10 Aug 2013:
A tour of the world's most disputed border areas becomes a forceful study in human suffering, writes Anthony Sattin