The Golden Twenties was a vibrant period in the history of Berlin, Germany, Europe and the world in general. After the Greater Berlin Act the city became the third largest municipality in the world and experienced its heyday as a major world city.
Berlin was known for its leadership roles in science, the humanities, music, film, higher education, government, diplomacy, industries and military affairs.
Berlin in the 1920s also proved to be a haven for English writers such as W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Christopher Isherwood, who wrote a series of ‘Berlin novels’, inspiring the play I Am a Camera, which was later adapted into a musical, Cabaret, and an Academy Award winning film of the same name. Spender’s semi-autobiographical novel The Temple evokes the attitude and atmosphere of the time.
Take a look at these amazing photos to see what Berlin looked like during the 1920s.
Bakery, BerlinBerlin Alexanderplatz railway stationBerlin childrenBerlin fashionable ladiesBerlin horse cabBerlin Mühlendamm SpreeBerlin Potsdamer PlatzBerlin street advertisingBerlin street scenesBerlin street sweeperBerlin street theatreBerlin Zoologischer Garten railway stationBriquette supplier, BerlinBuckow riding school, BerlinCharlottenstrasse, BerlinCommunists at the Reichstag, BerlinCounter-revolutionaries at the side entrance of the ReichstagEphraim Palace, BerlinFassanenstrasse, BerlinFrankfurter Allee, BerlinFriedrichsgracht, BerlinFriedrichstrasse railway station, BerlinHardenbergstrasse, BerlinHotel Excelsior, Kreuzberg, BerlinKronenstrasse, BerlinLeipziger Strasse, BerlinOranienplatz, BerlinPariser Platz, BerlinPotsdamer Platz riots, BerlinPotsdamer Platz, Berlin.Potsdamer Platz, Berlin.Riots at Unter den Linden & Friedrichstraße, BerlinSchicklerstrasse, BerlinSpree townhouse – Krögel, BerlinStettiner Bahnhof railway station, BerlinStreet scenes in Wedding, BerlinTauentzienstrasse, BerlinThe Kurfürstenbrücke, BerlinThe painter, BerlinTricycle racing, BerlinUnter den Linden riots, BerlinUnter den Linden-Friedrichstrasse, BerlinUnter den Linden, BerlinUnter den Linden, BerlinUnter den Linden, BerlinVegetable seller, BerlinWaisenstrasse, BerlinWilhelmstrasse panzer car with soldiers of the ‘Kappisten’, BerlinWilhelmstrasse, BerlinZeppelin at Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
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