City Details: The Hollow Tooth-East Side Gallery- Stumbling Stones

The Hollow Tooth

After the very productive meeting with Barış Ülker, we decided to recreation our time. First we had to eat something and we went to the Kurfürstendamm, there was a very deutsche cafe and restaurant also looking at the architecture of the buildings become more welfare level high. Between this high and luxery buildings, there was a ruined roof which was Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche. It was badly damged in a bombing raid so, they didn’t rebuild this roof for make a memorial hall since 1943. Nowadays, it is a famous landmark of western Berlin, and Berliners call with a nickname “der hohle Zahn”, meaning “the hollow tooth”.

East Side Gallery

The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. We saw a part of the Berlin Wall when we travelled in the city, but we have to see closely. East Side Gallery occur 1,3 km section of the Berlin Wall, which was left undamaged, turned into an outdoor art gallery where 110 artists from 24 countries exhibited their art.

Stumbling Stones

In Talmud, one of the most important written works of Judaism, "A person is forgotten when his name is forgotten". The German artist Gunter Demnig is fighting against forgetting over 20 years. The idea behind the project bearing the name "Stumbling Stones" is to give back the names to the victims and show them that they were neighbors for some time. Special paving stones are laid in front of the houses where the victims themselves are known to be the last resident.