In Germany, the fall of the Berlin Wall has rarely been played for laughs ... “It is grippingly funny, fantastically grotesque and endlessly moving,” said the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel.

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

“At one point the crowd was throwing a hat — I remember this too, it’s funny ... but the wall is history,” he says. “It’s over.” Read more about the fall of the Berlin Wall here ...

Today I find it funny that I was never irritated by the wall, although I always lived near it. Now Berlin is for everybody." Berlin Wall photograph from Getty Images. In a new podcast interview ...

The Berlin Wall came to symbolise the ‘Iron Curtain’ – an ideological split between the East and the West. But a simple question and slip up by East German Communist Party official Günter ...

Erected in haste and torn down in protest, the Berlin Wall was almost 27 miles long and was protected with barbed wire, attack dogs, and 55,000 landmines. But though the wall stood between 1961 ...

And this is rooted in the years after the wall came down ... the music there went on to influence techno in Berlin? RAPP: Yeah, that's a funny story. There was this guy from West Berlin who ...

Whenever I visit Berlin I can’t help remembering my spooky visit to East Berlin back in 1971. I vividly recall how, as we were about to return to West Berlin, our tour bus was stopped and ...

BERLIN — Tens of thousands of people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in Germany’s capital on Saturday with open-air concerts, art installations and official events ...

Even the October date was wrong. The real red-letter day had been November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall was first breached. I had been in Berlin that day and had seen a very different celebration.

Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. News Wrap: Anonymous official’s book ...