jueves, 16 de julio de 2015

BERLIN, TAN LEJOS Y TAN CERCA



Durante casi tres décadas el muro de Berlin dividió la ciudad, una parte comunista y la otra capitalista. Ese muro se derribó en  1961 y la ciudad ha cambiado radicalmente

Changes: People started to pull down the Berlin Wall all after the East German Government allowed people to visit the West of the city on November 9, 1989. The top picture shows people dancing on the wall at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin the day after the ruling, while the bottom image shows how the landmark looks 25 years on
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La gente tirando el muro de Berlin en  1989. La foto de arriba muestra a la gente bailando en la Puerta de Brandenburgo, la de abajo como es 25 años despues


Bustling: The Berlin Wall was built by East Germany in 1961, and the top image shows the wall around the Brandenburg Gate on Nov 19, 1961. Today the same area is filled with cars, buses and people moving freely around the German capital
El mismo lugar. En la primera foto, el muro construido en 1961, rodea la puerta de Bradenburgo, en la segunda, el mismo lugar hoy
Taste of freedom: East Berlin citizens push through the newly-created passage at Bernauer Strasse, where East German border police tore down segments of the wall on November 11, 1989. Almost 25 years later people walk over the crossing at Bernauer Strasse and Oderberger Strasse
Los ciudadanos de Berlin cruzan el pasaje creado en Bernauer Strasse, la segunda foto en la actualidad
Transformation: In August 1962 (top) the Potsdamer Platz was empty with the Wall cutting it in two. Today it is a busy public square and traffic intersection, visited by up to 100,000 people a day. On July 21, 1990, the Platz played host to a charity concert organised by Pink Floyd's Roger Waters to commemorate the end of the division between East and West Germany
Agosto 1962  Potsdamer Platz - Ayer y hoy
Attraction: Checkpoint Charlie was the best-known crossing point along the Berlin Wall, and is seen here being visited by U.S. President John F Kennedy, seen walking past a cordon of saluting servicemen and the sentry post on June 26, 1963. Today, the rebuilt checkpoint is a tourist attraction, manned by actors wearing replica uniforms
Checkpoint Charlie  hoy una atracción turística
Presidential visit: President Kennedy looks out across the Berlin Wall into East Germany during his visit on June 26, 1963. Now tourists can visit this attraction to get something of a sense of what living with the wall was like
El Presidente Kennedy  mirando a través del muro, 1963 
Construction work at the Berlin Wall on Aug. 13, 1985 on Friedrichstrasse near checkpoint Charlie and Friedrichstrasse Oct. 2, 2014 - 25 years after the fall of the wall. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
  25 años despues de la caída del muro   (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Building work:  The top image shows East German workers and troops building the wall in front of the historic Reichstag building on November 20, 1961. After German reunification in 1990, the building - which had fallen into disuse - was the subject of a major renovation by Sir Norman Foster and now houses the German parliament
Obreros construyendo el muro de Berlin delante del histórico Reichstag, despues de la reunificación en 1990, el edificio ha sido renovado de Norman Foster  y ahora es el Parlamento Alemán 
Peeking over: A child looks out onto the other side of the Wall as she climbs a pile of sand at a playground in July 1981. Cars now park at the same spot in Berlin's Kreuzberg district
Un  niño mirando al otro lado del muro subido en un monticulo de arena. El mismo punto hoy
Transport: On March 12, 1971, anyone wanting to cross the Berlin Wall had to pass through checkpoints, such as this one at Heinrich-Heine-Strasse, while today people are free to cycle, drive and walk through the area, which has completely transformed
En 1971,  el que queria  atravesar el muro tenía que pasar a través de "checkpoints" como este de Heinrich-Heine-Strasse, hoy en día la zona esta totalmente transformada
Similarities: A few of the buildings visible in this photograph of U.S. President Richard Nixon looking across the communist wall into East Germany during his stay in the divided city on February 27, 1969 are still visible today, while others in the area surrounding Checkpoint Heinrich-Heine-Strasse have been replaced with more modern versions
Algunos edificios que se ven en esta foto, donde está el presidente Nixon en 1969, se encuentran hoy en día, otros en  la zona que estan cerca de  Checkpoint Heinrich-Heine-Strasse han sido reemplazados por otros modernos 
A river runs through it: A woman looks out across the Spree river at the Berlin Wall in 1980, with construction work taking place at the Charite hospital in background. Today a bridge links the two sides of the river, which has a number of modern buildings along its banks
Una mujer mira el muro  a traves del río  Spree en 1980, hoy un puente une ambos lados
Memorial: The words 'The wall must fall' has been scrawled across the Berlin Wall along Bernauer Strasse in the north of Berlin when the top picture was taken on March 8, 1973. Now a memorial marker, made out of metal rods stands at the same spot, where on the night of November 10, 1989, the first segments of the Wall were knocked down to create a new crossing between East and West Berlin
Las palabras "el muro debe caer" recorrían Bernauer Strasse, en el norte de Berlon, 1973. Ahora la zona esta recordada con  un memorial de metal

Los edificios que se ven en la foto del Berlin oriental en Bernauer Strasse, todavía permanecen, aunque fueron pintados.  El tranvía cruza la linea donde estuvo el muro
Cut off: A group of children play alongside the barbed wire-topped Berlin Wall at Sebastianstrasse near Heinrich-Heine-Strasse in 1968, where today a man walks over the once-divided street
 Un grupo de niños juegan en Sebastianstrasse cerca de  Heinrich-Heine-Strasse en 1968,  donde hoy un hombre pasa por la calle dividida
Building work: East German policemen in work dress remove barbed wire from a brick wall while other officers in the background are raising the wall to 15 feet at the border between the French and Russian sector at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin on September 9, 1961. The line where the wall once stood can be seen in the pavement today
Policias orientales sacan alambre de un muro de ladrillo mientras otros, en la parte de atras, estan levantando el muro entre el sector francés y ruso en Bernauer Strasse, 1961- La linea donde estuvo el muro se puede ver en el pavimento 



So near and yet so far: West Berliners wave to their relatives in East Berlin one year after the Berlin Wall was erected at Bernauer Strasse on August 13, 1962, where today people cross the busy street freely
La historia, tan lejos y tan cerca. En la primera foto vemos a ciudadanos de Berlin occidental saludando a parientes del otro lado- agosto de 1962. En la otra foto la gente cruzando el mismo lugar libremente

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