Vintage Berlin – in pictures

Magnum photographer Thomas Höpker has been photographing the city for decades... we've chosen some of his finest pictures
  
  


berlin vintage: Apartment blocks with poster
East Berlin apartment blocks in 1975, with poster showing leader Erich Honecker.
Photograph: Thomas Hoepker Photograph: Action images
berlin vintage: Children playing at the Berlin Wall
Child playing by the Berlin Wall, 1963.
Photograph: Thomas Hoepker-Magnum/Thomas Hoepker Photograph: Thomas Hoepker-Magnum/Action images
berlin vintage: Faded signage in Prenzlauer Berg
Faded signage in Prenzlauer Berg, East Berlin, 1976.
Photograph: Thomas Hoepker Photograph: Action images
berlin vintage: Honours day
East German medal winners leaving the 'Staatsrat' building with their new medals in 1975. Once a year medals and honours of all kinds and sizes were distributed to citizens of special merit, some with considerable monetary rewards.
Photograph: Thomas Hoepker/Thomas Hoepker Photograph: Thomas Hoepker/Action images
berlin vintage: Rear window of a 'Trabbi' (Trabant) car with decorative plastic cushion.
Rear window of a 'Trabbi' (Trabant) car in East Berlin, 1974, with decorative plastic cushion. Photograph: Thomas Hoepker
berlin vintage: Shop window
Shop window in East Berlin, 1975. Photograph: Thomas Hoepker
berlin vintage: Tenth anniversary
Celebrations for the tenth anniversary of the German Democratic Republic, 1959. Photograph: Thomas Hoepker
berlin vintage: toilets
Toilet time at an East Berlin nursery, 1975. Photograph: Thomas Hoepker
 

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