Willy Pragher (born Wilhelm Alexander Pragher) was a German photographer and photojournalist. He studied and trained at the Reimann School of Art and Design, a private art school in Berlin. From 1932, he worked as a freelance press photographer for Ullstein, Berliner Illustrierte and Badische Zeitung. In 1944, Pragher was drafted into the Volkssturm, a national militia established by Nazi Germany during the last months of World War II. From 1945 to 1949, he was a prisoner of war in Siberia.
After he was set free, Pragher returned to Germany and took numerous photographs of almost everything. Here, we take a look at Pragher’s pictures of Berlin in the summer of 1957:
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| The DOB-Hochhaus on the Joachimsthalerstrasse section. |
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| Corner of Tauentzienstrasse and Marburgerstrasse. |
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| View from Café Huthmacher in the DOB-Hochhaus. |
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| View from Kantstrasse to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. |
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| A kiosk on Kurfürstendamm. |
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| Leiser shoe store on Tauentzienstrasse. |
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| Berlin Zoologischer Garten station. |
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| The colonnade at the Bikini-Haus. |
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| View from Kantstrasse to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. |
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| Lehrter station before demolition. |
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| Tauentzienstrasse looking from Passauerstrasse. |
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| View of Joachimsthalerstrasse. |
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| View of the undeveloped property of the Europa Center. |
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| Kurfürstendamm looking from Breitscheidplatz. |
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| Hansaplatz underground station. |
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| View of Joachimsthalerstrasse. |
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| Kurfürstendamm looking west from Joachimsthalerstrasse. |
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| View of Joachimsthalerstrasse. |
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| Kurfürstendamm at the Uhlandstrasse intersection. |
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| Zoo Palast and Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. |
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| View from Hallesches Tor underground station to the destroyed Mehringplatz. |
