One of the things I love about this city is the history it has and how you can see it everywhere. I’m reading a book at the moment called Stasiland by Anna Funder. It’s a collection of stories from the times of the DDR, and the author’s own story of how she found them.

Some of it is incredibly disturbing, but at the same time very empowering to read about how people survived and overcame living in a world closed off from so much. There are lots of places you can go and find out about the DDR, like the museum in Mitte which is quite small, but really interesting. They have models of what a typical home would look like and footage of TV from the time. http://www.ddr-museum.de/en