Berlin main station. April 2024
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I walk from the government district towards the Spree and look at the panorama of Berlin Central Station that opens up to me.
I can judge distances much better on foot and am amazed at how close everything is to each other.
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I usually take the train to Berlin instead of taking a car or plane. The train takes just over 4 hours for the just over 500 km long route from Munich to Berlin.
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When I arrive at the main train station, I often think of my grandparents.
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My grandfather traveled there by ship during Prohibition in the USA with the aim of emigrating and starting a new life there.
But he soon became disillusioned with the American dream, which simply wouldn’t come true for him.
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In the USA he remembered the young woman he had met shortly before his departure and who had fallen madly in love with him.
He quickly decided to return to Germany and marry her.
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Their honeymoon took them to Potsdam and Berlin. He, who had now traveled the world and, after his stay in New York City, knew how to behave urbanely in large metropolises, must have been very proud to show his young, newly married wife this lively metropolis.
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Other than the girls’ boarding school, the protective home in the country, and the fact that she was the only spoiled child, she hadn’t seen much of the world.
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She was simply overwhelmed by this city and the many impressions.
I often leaf through the views of Berlin that the two of them brought with them as little books for those at home and which always fascinated me as a child when I leafed through them with my grandpa or grandma.
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However, my grandparents arrived at Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin, of which unfortunately only part of the portico remains.
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Berlin, a city in which the vivid images of history overlay the current appearance in many layers.
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