1986 | Waldemarstr. | Petershagen | CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

BERLIN 1945

A participatory project with pictures of the destroyed city

1945 | BVG-Archiv

circa 1930 | Im Flugzeug über Berlin, Klinke | Sammlung Müller

Nominated for the
Grimme Online Award 2021
Category: Education

Berlin 1945 | Winner of the DigAMus Award 2020!
The best digital projects of the museums: Apps and Games

Berlin 1945 - Nominated for the
TOMMI - German Children's Software Award 2020
The best apps

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The Idea

Walking through Berlin is walking on historical ground. Few places in the world have as many historical layers hidden beneath the surface as the German capital. Unfortunately, a lot of these traces have faded over time, and even people interested in history cannot always detect them at first glance.

That’s why the berlinHistory e.V. association has set to make such historical traces visible and perceptible, and at the same time, preserve them for the future. For this purpose, we have created the berlinHistory app, which serves as an open digital platform for cultural institutions, museums and archives as well as for private initiatives, local researchers and individuals. After being reviewed by the editorial department, all kinds of historical documents - texts, photographs, audio files, videos and historical maps - can be published on the app. To facilitate this process, our team is constantly developing new digital tools and guarantees the permanent availability of our ever-expanding platform. And since all content is streamed, the berlinHistory app takes up very little space with only 40MB!

Participation

Being a non-profit association, the berlinHistory e.V. always provides its app content free of charge and without advertising. Moreover, the berlinHistory app will gradually be opened to further participation. Our first step will include the new camera module which enables users to create, upload and share their own before-and-after pictures by means of the app.

It is our aim to make institutions visible on our platform. This way, we have already been able to attract more than 60 Berlin cultural institutions who have become our cooperation partners and who put their content and pictures at our free disposal.

We regard ourselves as an open Berlin platform for all epochs of the city’s history.

1968 | Student protests | Ludwig Binder, Haus der Geschichte | CC BY-SA 2.0

Before-and-After Pictures

Interactive before-and-after pictures are a powerful tool for making layers of history visible and palpable.

The berlinHistory app contains a camera module that enables everyone to find the exact location of historical recordings and to create precisely fitting before and after pictures and upload them directly to the berlinHistory platform.

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Before-and-after images created by users

Take Part

You are interested in supporting berlinHistory in this unique project?

Collaboration
Would you like to collaborate with us on a project, or do you have photos or other interesting documents which you would like to share with us? Contact us

Site Patronage
Do you know an exciting site of Berlin history that you would like to make accessible to the public? Then contact us and become the patron of a POI (Point of Interest)! Contact us

Membership
Become a sponsoring member and support berlinHistory’s long term projects. A regular membership costs 60 euros per year. Form

Donate
Each donation, no matter how small, helps us realize this ambitious project.

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berlinHistory e.V.
IBAN: DE05830654080004027396,
VR-Bank Altenburger Land / Skatbank.
Spendenquittungen gerne auf Anfrage.

1989 | Brandenburger Tor | Stiftung Berliner Mauer