No other city has had so many faces and so many disasters and has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin.



The Berlin of the past 800 years has been both haven and hell. It is a city tortured by its history, where the traumatised gather and where traumas are unleashed. Each plague, each fire, each war, each act of destruction and self-destruction requires it to start again.



Berlin should never have become a world metropolis. Its geography and topography...