Its street layout followed the Baroque-style grid pattern much favoured at the time, and was based on two main axes: Friedrichstraße running north-south, and Leipziger Straße running east-west.

Morath was registered at the Luisenschule near Bahnhof Friedrichstraße.

Gallery walls along the Friedrichstraße and the Zimmerstraße inform on escape attempts, how the checkpoint was expanded, and its significance during the Cold War, in particular the confrontation of Soviet and American tanks in 1961.

As an example of the GDR regime's desire for hard currency, in the 1980s, in the Berlin Friedrichstraße subway ( U-Bahn ) station, there was an Intershop kiosk on the platform of the U6 line created specifically for travellers from West Berlin who may not have wanted to pass through the GDR border controls.

The movie theater Camera was located in the Friedrichstraße gateway area, but was forced to leave in 1958 due to the worsening condition of the building.

A new street was planned on the site and would have created a shortcut between Oranienburger Straße and Friedrichstraße.

The Friedrichstraße was badly damaged during World War II and only partly rebuilt during the division of Berlin.

The section in West Berlin was partly rebuilt as a residential street ; in the late 1960s, the remains of the former Belle-Alliance-Platz at the end of the Friedrichstraße, renamed Mehringplatz, were completely demolished and replaced with a concrete housing and office development designed by Hans Scharoun.

Friedrichstraße was rebuilt in the 1990s, and at the time it was the city's largest construction project ; work continues north of Friedrichstraße station.

During the Cold War and division of Berlin, the Friedrichstraße underground station, despite being located in East Berlin, was utilized by two intersecting West Berlin S-Bahn lines and the West Berlin subway line U6.

Friedrichstraße station, though served by western lines and located in East Berlin territory, was not a Geisterbahnhof.

It was equipped with a checkpoint within the station akin to Friedrichstraße, where East German customs and border control were provisionally installed to facilitate passengers heading to or coming from East Berlin.

The historic Hallesches Tor at the southern end of Friedrichstraße and Mehringplatz was a gate of Berlin's 18th-century city wall, the road through it led via Tempelhof to the city of Halle.

It was the final stop in West Berlin ; the next station, Berlin Friedrichstraße, was in the Soviet zone, although it served as a stop on both the West Berlin S-and U-Bahn systems ; these parts of the station were sealed off and inaccessible to East Berliners.

As central Berlin's traditional shopping street, Friedrichstraße is three blocks east of the parallel Wilhelmstraße, the historic heart of the old government quarter ( Regierungsviertel ) until 1945.

After German reunification the Kurfürstendamm had to compete with central places like Potsdamer Platz, Friedrichstraße or Alexanderplatz, which led to the closing of numerous cafés and cinemas.

Boldly abandoning ornament altogether, Mies made a dramatic modernist debut with his stunning competition proposal for the faceted all-glass Friedrichstraße skyscraper in 1921, followed by a taller curved version in 1922 named the Glass Skyscraper .< ref > Compare Arthur Lubow's " The Contextualizer ," New York Times.

During this time, under the direction of court architects, Joseph Saint-Pierre and Carl von Gontard, numerous courtly buildings and attractions were created: the Margravial Opera House with its richly furnished baroque theatre ( 1744 – 1748 ), the New ' Castle ' and Sun Temple ( 1749 – 1753 ) at the Hermitage, the New Palace with its courtyard garden ( 1754 ff ) to replace the Old Palace which had burned down through the carelessness of the margrave, and the magnificent row of buildings in today's Friedrichstraße.

File: Bundesarchiv Bild 183-88574-0001, Berlin, Mauerbau, Friedrichstraße. jpg | Bus going through the East Berlin checkpoint.

File: Bundesarchiv Bild 183-88574-0003, Berlin, Mauerbau, Friedrichstraße, Panzersperre. jpg | Czech hedgehogs just inside East Berlin.

File: Bundesarchiv Bild 183-88832-0001, Berlin, Mauerbau, Friedrichstraße. jpg | Checks by East German guards.

File: Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1989-1117-028, Berlin, Grenzübergang Friedrichstraße, Friedensplakat. jpg | Celebrating the Fall of the Wall.

Major north – south streets crossing Unter den Linden are Friedrichstraße and Wilhelmstrasse.

* Berlin: Several buildings on the east side of Friedrichstraße, from Quartier 205 ( Friedrichstraße 70 ) northwards up to Galerie Lafayette are connected to each other.

Arriving in Berlin, Fischinger borrowed some money from a relative and set up a studio on Friedrichstraße.

The Intershop in Berlin Friedrichstraße station | Berlin Friedrichstraße underground station, access only possible from West Berlin.

The first mobile carts were in the Berlin Friedrichstraße station.

* Lola's apartment – The apartment block is located at 13-14 Albrechtstraße, Berlin-Mitte, near Friedrichstraße railway station.

The entrance is actually located on Friedrichstraße.

Berlin's previous history as united Germany's capital was strongly connected with Imperial Germany, and more ominously with Nazi Germany.

By 1700, approximately 20 percent of Berlin's residents were French, and their cultural influence on the city was immense.

West Berlin officially remained an occupied city, but as a corpus separatum it politically was very closely aligned with Federal Republic of Germany despite Berlin's geographic location within East Germany.

Unter den Linden is a tree-lined east – west avenue from the Brandenburg Gate to the site of the former Berliner Stadtschloss, and was once Berlin's premier promenade.

He and other members from his unit wrote a play called Is This the Army ?, which was inspired by Irving Berlin's This is the Army.

" In 1942 Goebbels was involved in the deportation of Berlin's Jews.

" He couldn't escape also because he was Berlin's Defence Commissioner and he considered it would be disgraceful for him to abandon his post ," Voss added.

A physically imposing, deliberative, and reticent man, Ludwig Mies renamed himself as part of his rapid transformation from a tradesman's son to an architect working with Berlin's cultural elite, adding " van der " and his mother's surname " Rohe ", using the Dutch " van der ", rather than the German form " von " which was legally restricted to those of genuine aristocratic lineage.

The construction of a dedicated race track was proposed, following the examples of Italy's Monza and Berlin's AVUS, yet with a different character.

In later years Potsdamer Platz was served by both of Berlin's two local rail systems.

What was not apparent from the western side however, was that East Berlin's construction boasted its own illuminated display board facing east, whose messages comprised the version of the news that the Communist authorities in the east wanted their citizens to believe.

Heydrich was buried in Berlin's Invalidenfriedhof, a military cemetery ; the exact location is not known — a temporary wooden marker which disappeared when the Red Army overran the city in 1945 was never replaced, so that Heydrich's grave could not become a rallying point for Neo-Nazis.

With the division of Berlin's city government and administration in September 1948 the Neues Stadthaus was in the Communist Ostsektor ( eastern sector ) and became off limits to West Berlin.

Even before hostilities commenced in Europe, one of the most played songs on radio was Irving Berlin's " God Bless America ," popularized by CBS's own Kate Smith.

Rossellini had started now his so-called Neorealistic Trilogy, the second title of which was Paisà ( 1946 ), produced with non-professional actors, and the third, Germany, Year Zero ( 1948 ), sponsored by a French producer and filmed in Berlin's French sector.

Berlin's work was featured in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1918, 1919, and 1920.

A " Critical Reconstruction " policy agenda was to redefine Berlin's urban identity through its pre-war and pre-Nazi legacy.

With respect to redefining the city's identity, emphasis was placed on restoring Berlin's traditional landscape.

This was composer Irving Berlin's first complete film score since 1930 and he negotiated a unique contract, retaining the copyrights to the score with a guarantee of ten per-cent of the profits if the film earned in excess of $ 1, 250, 000.

Berlin's balls ) in Portugal, but the traditional Portuguese yellow cream was substituted by local dairy and fruit products.

She was made famous by her bust, now in Berlin's Neues Museum, shown to the right.

On 25 June 1948 " Operation Vittles ," the strategic airlift of supplies to Berlin's 2, 000, 000 inhabitants, was initiated, beginning what became known as the Berlin Airlift.