Audioguide
2 audio tours with each 7 chapters
about the GDR BORDER AREA in Potsdam
between Glienicke Bridge and Bertini-Enge

Audioguide

Tour 1: FROM GLIENICKER BRÜCKE TO BERTINI-ENGE

BARRIER ZONE IN THE PARK LANDSCAPE

Glienicker Brücke → Schwanenallee → Neuer Garten → Bertinistraße 

Duration 38:14 min

Chapters

  1. The Glienicke Bridge
  2. The Border Fortifications on Schwanenallee
  3. The New Garden and the Buildings in the Park
  4. The Meierei and Its Surroundings
  5. The Border Troops Boat Regiment
  6. The Bertini-Enge Water Border Crossing
  7. Inland Shipping − and the So-Called Waste Agreement

Tour 2: FROM BERTINI-ENGE TO GLIENICKER BRÜCKE

IN THE SHADOW OF THE IRON CURTAIN

Bertinistraße → Neuer Garten → Schwanenallee → Glienicker Brücke

Duration 50:42 min

Chapters

  1. The Villas on Bertinistrasse
  2. The Military Town No. 7
  3. Cecilienhof Palace and the Potsdam Conference
  4. The Neuer Garten and the Destroyed Parks
  5. Life in the Wall's hinterland and the military liaison missions
  6. The Villa Schöningen
  7. The Villa Kampffmeyer and the goings-on at Glienicke Bridge

Image and text documents
for the audio guide

Photos of the border area in the Glienicker Bridge and Jungfernsee region from the holdings of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR (Stasi). Source: BSTU, Berlin

  • The Glienicke Bridge, left: West Berlin, right: Potsdam with the Villa Schöningen
  • Barrier lines at the Glienicke Bridge
  • Barrier lines at the Glienicke Bridge
  • Barrier algae in the vicinity of the bridge, bank left: Nauener Vorstadt, bank Right: Park Babelsberg in the background the Glienicker Brücke
  • The wall in the New Garden at Jungfernsee, top left: Sakrow, in the middle: the Jungfernsee, in the background, centre: the Peacock Island, Right: Wannsee Island with the radio transmitting tower on the Schäferberg
  • Water border crossing at the Bertini Strait, Top: Sacrow, Bottom: Bank near Bertini Street
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  • 03a MfS HA II Fo 807 Bild 0002

Photos of the agent exchange on the Glienicke Bridge on February 11, 1986 from the holdings of the Ministry for State Security of the GDR (Stasi). Source: Allied Museum Berlin

  • Agent exchange on the Glienicke Bridge between West Berlin and Potsdam: The Soviet civil rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky (wearing a fur hat), U.S. Ambassador Richard Burt and Ludwig Rehlinger, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Inner-German Relations, leave the Glienicke Bridge (from left)
  • U.S. Ambassador Richard Burt (2nd from left) and Ludwig Rehlinger, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Inner-German Relations (far right), leave with Soviet civil rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky in the ambassador's Mercedes Benz limousine.
  • The Mercedes Benz of GDR lawyer Wolfgang Vogel (in front) and the Lincoln-official car of Francis Meehan, U.S. Ambassador to the GDR, arriving at the Glienicke Bridge
  • U.S. Ambassador Richard Burt (left) and Ludwig Rehlinger, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Inner-German Relations, upon their arrival at the Glienicke Bridge
  • Ludwig Rehlinger, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Inner-German Relations, U.S. Ambassador Richard Burt and GDR lawyer Wolfgang Vogel before the exchange on the Glienicker Bridge (from left)

MfS documentation on the agent exchange on the Glienicke Bridge on February 11, 1986. February 1986. Source: BSTU
pdfMfS_BV_Pdm_AKG_2292.pdf

MfS documentation on the Bertini-Enge water border crossing. Source: BSTU
pdfMfS_HA_VI_148.pdf

The audio tour is also available in the app Potsdam City Guide Google Play and Apple Store

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Supported by the cultural promotion of the state capital Potsdam, realized in cooperation with Potsdam Marketing und Service GmbH. Project idea and concept: Harry Kühn · Text creation: Karoline Kleinert & Florentine Schmidtmann · It speaks: Anne-Marie Sackx & Ben Posener