Wide avenue Unter den Linden illuminates the afternoon sun. While the streets of Prague plunges int

Berlin had its great weekend. Full of emotions, memories, historical exhibitions and installations. Being part of these celebrations meant not only to share the joy of reuniting the divided Berlin, but also feel the sadness of those who split almost from day to day life changed. At least something was Mikhail Gorbachev, who at the invitation of Angela Merkel spoke at Checkpoint Charlie, the truth - Berlin is now a beautiful place. After the fall of the wall rose like a phoenix from the ashes.
Postupimská come a street leads to the heart of Berlin at Potsdamer Platz mouth, or Potsdamer Platz. This square once intersected the Berlin Wall. At the time, seemed Potsdamer Platz otherwise. After skyscrapers with headquarters Deutsche Bahn and Sony pamtáky even after the giant shopping malls frenetic.
The once noble Grand Hotel Esplanade, the dominant Potsdamer Platz, leaving only one glazed display cabinet in the Sony Center. A stone's throw away from its partially renovated residues grew up in sixty-one wall. She also said "Potsdam" U-Bahn, that in fact was called ghost stations. "Trains from those East German stations slowed. But it was never stopped. Through the window you could see the East German guard, "says one of the former residents of West Berlin, free1 who along with his wife remembers with historical free1 photographs on the square that these" ghost stations "recall. It describes the reality of West Berliners, who, while S-Bahn train through the eastern part of Berlin closed were allowed to ride, but were not allowed to disembark.
Before the entrance to the shopping center free1 is an older couple, free1 both may be about sixty. The man pulls the phone and sends his girlfriend to the part of the wall that once stood here and now there is no longer just a fragment. Sixties jumps for joy in the middle of the hole in the wall, posing man with the camera. Both then go to the mall (for comparison: Chodov ten times). I'm going after them curiously. Inside, but nezaplují to clothing shops, but scan a photographic exhibition on 25 Jahre Mauerfall. Probably the longest standing senior couple with two columns: One is the famous jump soldier (in the East German uniform), who happened to several coincidences managed unknown photographers to capture from several angles - from east, west, profile, soldier and soldier waiting in the air. Jump soldier became the main visual leitmotif of binding the poster on the wall fall festivities.
Wide avenue Unter den Linden illuminates the afternoon sun. While the streets of Prague plunges into the thick fog, Berlin is beautifully colored autumn. The Brandenburg Gate is heading hundreds, maybe thousands of people. Now that the celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall in full swing, it's no wonder. He approaches the gate, or rather let myself drift through the crowd. The crowd suddenly turns. Starbucks.
I look at the screen on the right side of the Brandenburg Gate, which runs nonstop film, which shows the genesis of building a wall, aerial views after completion and ultimately emotional famous shots from the first přeskočivších eastern to western Europe. free1 I walk among the crowds. Faces Berliners are at once distinguishable from tourists, visitors and the younger generation, who already knows the fall of the wall only from stories. The eyes of those who experienced the division of Berlin are filled with tears. I would like to hear the story of a woman in middle age, which itself directly in front of screen. I ask her about her story. "Sorry, free1 I can not. It's still too fresh, "she tells me quietly.
Walk slowly along the gate and return back along the street overly huge Russian Embassy. Stop by the Willy Brandt Center. His portrait staring from behind the glass door, and it immediately in two versions. One classic, the second time as it known to the world - famous free1 genuflection of December free1 1970, a spontaneous act of repentance before the memorial to victims of the uprising in the Jewish ghetto. free1 The son of an unwed mother, who grew up in working-class proportions in Lübeck, later became a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. His famous, although many criticized Ostpolitik, is one of the central themes of the exhibition at Unter den Linden. There also see together with other (only a few) film enthusiasts, which shows footage of the visit of John F. Kennedy in 1963. Kennedy with his typical free1 smile passing by around the Brandenburg Gate, in front of which stood brackets- free1 relatively fresh. Waving the tens of thousands of West Berliners, and then pronounces sentence, which expresses support to the people of West Berlin closed. "Ich free1 bin ein Berliner." "Ich bin ein Berliner."
I look at the building, Schauspielhaus concert hall in the former GDR, which was after the war also razed to the country - and in my ears sounds fine beginning of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, a song that many will forever remain just a symbol of unification of the two parts of Berlin's Ninth Symphony not just Ode to Joy, although this part is probably the best known. It's slow and gentle concert, which aims to great grandiose finale. Leonard Bernstein, the great personality of German music composer and conductor, free1 he conducted this magnificent Christmas concert in December free1 1989. It was a concert of freedom.
Berlin over the weekend ran like illuminated