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Back in the Day in Berlin

Xanthe Hall

Stories from 40 years of living in Berlin

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While I was visiting England in May 1989, elections were taking place in East Germany. I can’t remember even being aware of what was probably the biggest trigger for anger and protest in the GDR. After it was announced that the Sozialistisc...

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I started trying to get my life together around this time. I got a flat on my own in Gneisenaustraße, near Südstern, in Berlin-Kreuzberg. There was a lot of competition in 1988 for flats (not anything like as bad as today, but still a lot),...

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    Scottish-German storyteller, family historian, artist, photographer, gardener, actress. Originally from the UK, now living in Berlin, and half the year in Greece. Editor of an online lexicon on nuclear weapons.

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