Counterculture Movement in Berlin, Post 1950


In this tour overview, we will be going to six different points of interest throughout Berlin that show the counterculture movement that the city and its people embraced after the 1950s. The counterculture movement began after the city was left in shambles after World War II, but it really took off after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. I will be looking at a variety of different locations on my tour, which will start near the memorial park in Berlin, then go down towards the government buildings in West Berlin, and then continue down south to the entertainment district of Berlin, where the counterculture movement really took off after the collapse of the Berlin Wall. The overall goal of this tour is to show the major shift that Berlin took after the Nazi party fell after the conclusion of the Second World War from the 1950s to the 1990s. I have compiled a list of a total of six points of interest, which I feel accurately show this shift in direction that Berlin was attempting, in order to forget about their troubled past, when Hitler and the Nazi party was in charge. The six places that we will be stopping on my tour includes Rathaus Schoneberg, which is the rebuilt city hall after the original was destroyed during WWII, next up is the Kreuzberg, which has become one of Berlin's cultural centers in the middle of the now reunified city, known around the world for its alternative scene and counterculture. After that is the UFO club, that is now a youth center, but in the 1990s it was one of the first clubs in Berlin which symbolized the counterculture movement. Next is the Berlin Wall Memorial that commemorates the division of Berlin with the wall and the many deaths that occurred. Next is the Reichstag building, which was rebuilt in 1960 after damages from the war and then officially in 1999, became the meeting place of the German parliament. Finally, is the Kunsthaus Tacheles building, which was an abandoned building, that has been repurposed in the counterculture movement to display local artist artwork and sculptures, as art became a major symbol of the counterculture movement in Berlin.

For the Goals that i would like to achieve on this tour, is to simply see all the hot spots of the counterculture movement that emerged out of Berlin at a time where they were surrounded by darkness and allowed the city and its people to emerge from that darkness to start a new and fresh history that they can now be proud to call their own.hopefully the six sites that I have chosen for this walking tour will accurately display that shift that the city and the people took in order to move into a new and brighter era, one that is not dictated by a communist ruler making their lives miserable.

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