The Mauerschau app, your mobile city guide about the building and fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Mauerschau opens virtual time windows through which you can relive stories about the building and fall of the Berlin Wall. Eyewitnesses will personally guide you to the places where these events took place.
Get involved in one of the most captivating Mobile Cinema experiences in Berlin:
Cinema in pocket format: The app contains high-quality film material with eyewitness videos and original video recordings optimised for mobile use on site.
Emotionally stirring eyewitness stories: Eyewitnesses take you personally to the places where the events took place.
History meets augmented reality: Fade archive photos in and out at the places where they were taken and compare how the places look today.
Comprehensive historical knowledge: Receive additional information on the historical context, researched to the highest standards.
Let yourself be carried away by our eyewitness stories:
Holger Klein takes you on his escape at Friedrichstraße station and jumps on the Moscow-Paris Express to the West with you.
At the Bernauer Straße memorial, pastor Manfred Fischer shows you where his church was blown up to make way for the Wall.
Winfried Schweitzer shows you how he and other students spent weeks digging a hidden tunnel through which 57 people fled to the West.
Erika Schallert takes you on her moving escape story: the sudden construction of the Wall separated her from her fiancé and she summoned up all her courage to flee to the other side of the city with her wedding dress in her hand.
At Checkpoint Charlie, former GDR border soldier Heinz Schäfer shows you how he bravely stood up to the American tanks.
At the Brandenburg Gate, you can experience how the Berlin Wall was finally dismantled and how people celebrated New Years Eve on its remains in 1989.
All these eyewitness stories can be seen and experienced at the site of the events with television footage from East and West German film archives and original photos in augmented reality. Choose from a variety of our eyewitness tours and discover Berlin as it really was.