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.
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| Berlin in the 1920s |
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 from janwillemsen to see what Berlin looked like during the 1920s.
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| Bakery, Berlin |
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| Berlin Alexanderplatz railway station |
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| Berlin children |
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| Berlin fashionable ladies |
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| Berlin horse cab |
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| Berlin Mühlendamm Spree |
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| Berlin Potsdamer Platz |
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| Berlin street advertising |
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| Berlin street scenes |
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| Berlin street sweeper |
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| Berlin street theatre |
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| Berlin Zoologischer Garten railway station |
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| Briquette supplier, Berlin |
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| Buckow riding school, Berlin |
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| Charlottenstrasse, Berlin |
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| Communists at the Reichstag, Berlin |
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| Counter-revolutionaries at the side entrance of the Reichstag |
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| Ephraim Palace, Berlin |
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| Fassanenstrasse, Berlin |
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| Frankfurter Allee, Berlin |
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| Friedrichsgracht, Berlin |
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| Friedrichstrasse railway station, Berlin |
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| Hardenbergstrasse, Berlin |
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| Hotel Excelsior, Kreuzberg, Berlin |
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| Kronenstrasse, Berlin |
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| Leipziger Strasse, Berlin |
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| Oranienplatz, Berlin |
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| Pariser Platz, Berlin |
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| Potsdamer Platz riots, Berlin |
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| Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. |
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| Potsdamer Platz, Berlin |
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| Riots at Unter den Linden & Friedrichstraße, Berlin |
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| Schicklerstrasse, Berlin |
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| Spree townhouse - Krögel, Berlin |
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| Stettiner Bahnhof railway station, Berlin |
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| Street scenes in Wedding, Berlin |
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| Tauentzienstrasse, Berlin |
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| The Kurfürstenbrücke, Berlin |
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| The painter, Berlin |
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| Tricycle racing, Berlin |
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| Unter den Linden riots, Berlin |
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| Unter den Linden-Friedrichstrasse, Berlin |
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| Unter den Linden, Berlin |
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| Unter den Linden, Berlin |
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| Unter den Linden, Berlin |
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| Vegetable seller, Berlin |
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| Waisenstrasse, Berlin |
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| Wilhelmstrasse panzer car with soldiers of the 'Kappisten', Berlin |
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| Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin |
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| Zeppelin at Potsdamer Platz, Berlin |