For 28 years the Berlin Wall divided the city and tore apart friends and family. Comic book
artists Susanne Buddenberg and Thomas Henseler interviewed contemporary witnesses and recorded
their stories. Five authentic tales bring to life a past which although not far away seems
hardly imaginable now: A young woman tries to leave East Germany with a fake ID card. A refugee
is shot on the border and no one can come to his rescue. An entire family hides in an East
German government building near the Wall hoping to flee from here into the West. A young man
covertly photographs the border fortifications and falls into the clutches of the secret
police. An East Berlin student ventures into West Berlin and experiences the party of a
lifetime. Berlin - A City Divided also takes us to the original locations of the stories:
Friedrichstrasse Station Bernauer Strasse Wilhelmstrasse the Brandenburg Gate and the
former border crosssing in the Bornholmer Strasse where readers can search for remnants of the
dramatic events
