Berlin’s place in modern history includes many challenging elements. Join us for tour that intends to illustrate the richness, complexities, and problems of German A Seminar in Berlin cultural and political history. The “Tagesplan” features daily lectures, visits to major sites, museums, churches, Tour Dates October 22–30, 2017 monuments, neighborhoods, parks, and nearby Potsdam. Live Your Travel Dreams 7 Nights Per Person Rates: FACULTY INSTRUCTOR - Gordon M. Stewart, Professor Emeri- tus, Department of German, University of Virginia and OLLI Double $3,700 • Single $4,300 faculty member. He holds a B.A. from Union College, M.A. and Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. Your tour includes: • Transportation to & from airport SEMINAR ASSISTANT - Lloyd Raupp, U.S. Army (ret.), served in • Rountrip flights Berlin during the Cold War working with refugees entering then West Berlin. He studied at Free University of Berlin and • Admission & transportation for local tours taught German at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. • Hotel accommodations with daily breakfast • 2 dinners TOUR DIRECTOR - Linda Hahn, Travel Coordinator at the Se- nior Center, is a licensed travel agent with a B.S. from Virginia Travel Insured travel protection is available. Tech. She specializes in designing travel for vintage travelers. L S I V M E Insurance Disclaimer: Senior Center, Inc. acts only as an agent for the various independent suppliers that provide hotel accommodations, transportation, sight- A seeing, activities, or other services connected with this tour. Such services are subject to the terms and conditions of those suppliers. 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Presented by OLLI at UVa and Senior Center, Inc. Senior Center, Inc. is the first nationally accredited senior center in Virginia. This private nonprofit organization has been a leader in enriching the lives of older adults since 1960. For more information on the Center and its mission, visit seniorcenterinc.org. A Seminar in Berlin • October 22–30, 2017 Day by Day Itinerary Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church Sanssoucci Palace Topography of Terror DAY 1 | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22 DAY 6 | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27 The Gedächtniskirche or Kaiser Wilhelm and Gardens The Topography of Terror (German: Topo- TRAVEL TO BERLIN Memorial Church is the symbolic center of Sanssouci is the summer palace of graphie des Terrors) is an outdoor and in- 8:45 am Meeting | Cold War in Berlin West Berlin, an anti-war memorial to peace Frederick the Great, King of Prus- door history museum in Berlin, Germany. It DAY 2 | MONDAY, OCTOBER 23 10 am Public transportation to and reconciliation. Following allied bombing sia, in Potsdam, near Berlin. It is is located on Niederkirchnerstrasse, formerly ARRIVAL IN BERLIN Checkpoint Charlie during WWII, the original west tower has re- often counted among the German Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse, on the site of build- (Transfer to Hotel Sylter Hof and Museum mained standing as a ruin and is hauntingly rivals of Versailles. While Sanssouci ings which during the Nazi regime from 1933 by chartered bus) 12 pm Lunch on own named the “hollow tooth” as it is literally an is in the more intimate Rococo style to 1945 were the headquarters of the Ge- (“Maximilians,” empty husk. Immediately recognizable and and is far smaller than its French Ba- stapo and the SS, the principal instruments 2 pm Meet at hotel Friedrichstraße 185) located on the Breitscheidplatz at the start roque counterpart, it too is notable of repression during the Nazi era. (organizational, 1 pm Friedrichstraße, of the busy shopping district which includes for the numerous temples and fol- welcome reception) Gendarmenmarkt, Tauentzienstraße and Ku’damm, this is the lies in the park. The palace was de- Memorial to the Murdered Jews of 3 pm Neighborhood walk and “Palace of Tears” only building on the square deliberately pre- signed/built by Georg Wenzeslaus Europe free time Sanssouci Palace 4:30 pm Local bus back to hotel served as a part ruin. von Knobelsdorff between 1745 and 1747 to The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Eu- 5:30 pm Early dinner (Restaurant 6 pm Dinner on own fulfill King Frederick’s need for a private resi- and West. Soviet and American tanks briefly rope, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, Faustus, Wittenberg Platz) Evening free Reichstag Building dence where he could relax away from the faced each other at the location during the is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims pomp and ceremony of the Berlin court. Berlin Crisis of 1961. of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter DAY 3 | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24 DAY 7 | SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28 Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. 8:45 am Meeting | Orientation to the Cecilienhof Castle Palace of Tears 8:45 am Meeting | The German day’s activities The Tränenpalast (English: “Palace of Tears”) The Jewish Museum Berlin Democratic Republic, 9:30 am Orientation bus tour of is the Berlin colloquialism for the former bor- (Jüdisches Museum Berlin) is one of the 1949-1989 der crossing at Berlin Friedrichstraße station, largest Jewish Museums in Europe. In three Berlin 930-1330 10:30 am Lecture, “Growing up where East Germans said goodbye to visitors buildings, two of which are new additions 2 pm Kurfürstendamm, Kaiser in the DDR, Living in going back to West Germany. specifically built for the museum by architect Wilhelm Memorial Church, the Federal Republic,” Daniel Libeskind, two millennia of German- KaDeWe Dr. Barbara Gügold, The Reichstag building is a historical edifice Lecture: “Growing Up in the DDR, Jewish history are on display in the perma- 6 pm Dinner on own and Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, constructed to house the evening free Living in the Federal Republic,” by nent exhibition as well as in various changing 12:30 pm Local transportation to Imperial Diet, of the German Empire. It was exhibitions. Dr. Gügold, Humboldt University DAY 4 | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25 Potsdamer Platz for lunch opened in 1894 and housed the Diet until 2 pm Walking Tour, Berlin in 1933, when it was severely damaged after it Museum Island 8:45 am Meeting | The Reichstag in the Third Reich: was set on fire. Potsdamer Platz Berlin’s Museum Is- An important public square and traffic inter- German History Wilhelmstraße, Museum land is a magnificent for the Murdered Jews of Brandenburg Gate Cecilienhof Palace is a palace in Potsdam, section in the center of Berlin, Germany, lying 10 am Local Bus to Reichstag for work of art in its own Europe Topography of The Brandenburg Gate is one of Berlin’s most Brandenburg, Germany built from 1914 to about 1 km (1,100 yd) south of the Branden- group tour 1030 1917. Cecilienhof was the last palace built right, an extraordi- 12 pm Brandenburger Gate, Terror/Gestapo Museum important monuments – a landmark and burg Gate and the Reichstag (German Parlia- nary ensemble of by the House of Hohenzollern that ruled the Pariser Platz, Unter den 7:30 pm Bus to Savigny Platz, symbol all in one with over two hundred ment Building), and close to the southeast five world-renowned Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire Linden Dinner on own years of history. A former symbol of the di- corner of the Tiergarten park. museums on an is- until the end of World War I. 3 pm German History Museum 10 pm Bus back to hotel vided city, it drew visitors who used to climb land in River Spree an observation platform in order to get a 5 pm Local bus return to hotel, Checkpoint Charlie right in the heart of DAY 8 | SUNDAY OCTOBER 29 glimpse of the world behind the Iron Curtain, Berlin’s city center. dinner on own and evening Checkpoint Charlie (or “Checkpoint FREE DAY on the other side of the barren “death-strip” The many highlights free C”) was the name given by the West- which separated East from West Berlin, geo- include the bust of 8:45 am Meeting | Refugee ern Allies to the best-known Berlin DAY 5 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26 graphically and politically. It was here that Nefertiti and the Per- situation in Germany and Wall crossing point between East on June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan issued his gamon Altar. Berlin Berlin and West Berlin during the 8:45 am Meeting | The stern command to his cold war adversary ad- Bust of Nefertiti 10 am Cold War (1947–1991). Hohenzollern and Rise Choice of Museums monishing him with the words: “Mr. Gorba- (Local transportation) DDR Museum of Prussia chov – tear down this wall!” 2 pm Afternoon free The East German leader Walter Ul- The DDR Museum is Berlin’s interactive mu- 9:30 am Day trip with chartered 6:30 pm Bus to Bavarian Potsdam bricht agitated and maneuvered to seum and one of the most-visited attractions bus to Potsdam Restaurant Augustiner am Potsdam is a city on the border of Berlin, Ger- get the Soviet Union’s permission in the German capital.