STANFORD TRAVEL/STUDY NANCY SAMUELS, FOCUS ON BERLIN, 2015 Berlin AN UP-CLOSE EXPLORATION OF A STORIED EUROPEAN CAPITAL April 25 to May 4, 2018 REICHSTAG BUILDING Highlights DISCOVER Berlin’s wealth of historic monuments and buildings, viewing such iconic structures as the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag, the Neo-Roman- esque Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche and the Museum Island complex. GAIN insights into Berlin’s past and present at morning guest lectures, including one delivered by Peter Unfried, a newspaper journalist for Die Tages- zeitung, and another given by local historian, pro- fessor and political scientist, Dr. Heinrich Bortfeldt. ENJOY Berlin’s world-class cultural scene hearing Rossini’s The Barber of Seville at the Staatsopera Unter den Linden, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at the Konzerthaus and a Franz Schubert concert at the Pierre-Boulez Saal. REFLECT on the events of World War II and the Cold War at the Holocaust Memorial, the Nazi-era Sachsenhausen concentration camp and the Topography of Terror Museum, adjacent to a remaining segment of the Berlin Wall. COVER: REICHSTAG BUILDING DOME Faculty Leader Faculty leader G. ROBERT HAMRDLA, ’59, MA ’64, who is fluent in German and a specialist on Nazi Germany as well as the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), has introduced hundreds of Stanford students and alumni to Berlin. He taught at Stanford for more than 35 years, most recently in the Continuing Studies program. Bob has been to Berlin nearly every year since 1959, and his long-standing connections in the city open doors to a Berlin not found in any guidebook. “Bob Hamrdla truly About the German capital, Bob says, “Berlin has it all: music, art, 170 museums of all sorts, high-fashion trendsetters and loves Berlin and lowbrow taverns. On this program we’ll investigate not only the considering the coming together of East and West but also the intricate politics of memory of the German past.” Bob’s lectures during our sights, sounds and program will cover the history, politics and ever-evolving interactions with culture of Berlin. the local people — Formerly, professor, German studies, and assistant to the president, Stanford University afforded by this — Former director, Stanford’s overseas campuses program, now we in Beutelsbach, Berlin and Kraków — Faculty leader for more than 45 Stanford understand why.” Travel/Study programs in Central Europe JIM MEHRING, MA ’81, — BA, mathematics, 1959, and MA, history, PHD ’83, FOCUS ON 1964, Stanford University BERLIN, 2015 STANFORD TRAVEL/STUDY SIGN UP ONLINE: alumni.stanford.edu/trip?berlin2018 OR BY PHONE: (650) 725-1093 MEMORIAL TO THE MURDERED JEWS OF EUROPE (HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL) Oranienburg Berlin BERLIN Potsdam Berlin Wall GERMANY Memorial Mitte Reichstag Gendarmenmarkt Schloss Bellevue Museum Island Pariser Platz S Hilton pr Charlottenberg ee Hotel R iv er surrounded by a modern blue-glass bell tower, oc- Under the Itinerary tagonal church and memorial hall; Brandenburg Gate; and Microscope WEDNESDAY & Potsdammer Platz. Then THURSDAY, explore Berlin independently Stanford Travel/Study’s special APRIL 25 & 26 or join Bob Hamrdla for a Focus programs are designed to U.S. / BERLIN, walk to the Wilhelmstrasse, provide in-depth insights into a GERMANY Berlin’s pre-WWII diplomatic particular city, including staying Depart the U.S. on overnight quarter. After dining on our in one centrally located hotel for a flights, arriving in Berlin on own, attend a performance week-long stay, visiting off-the-beat- Thursday and transferring to of Rossini’s The Barber of en-track sites, meeting with locals, our hotel, centrally located Seville at the Staatsopera enjoying presentations by guest on the Gendarmenmarkt, an 18th-century town Unter den Linden. HILTON speakers and attending exclusive HOTEL GENDARMENMARKT (B,L) special events, while allowing plenty square that’s home to the Konzerthaus, the Huguenot of time for individual pursuits. SATURDAY, APRIL 28 Französischer Dom and the THE COLD WAR Most mornings begin with a Deutscher Dom. Enjoy an After this morning’s guest lecture, after which we set off on orientation walk in our new lecture, depart by coach to foot, to explore a theme that is neighborhood this afternoon, view several Iron Curtain and central to the city’s identity. Lunch then gather for a welcome Cold War icons, including is usually eaten together as a group orientation and reception the remains of the Berlin Wall and most afternoons are free for at our hotel this evening. and the Berlin Wall Memo- independent exploration. HILTON HOTEL GENDARMENMARKT rial. The afternoon is free for There is typically one full-day exploring on one’s own. FRIDAY, APRIL 27 excursion by motor coach to a site CLASSIC BERLIN After dining independently, located outside the city, otherwise After a lecture this morning, walk with our group to we use a motor coach only when drive by such major Berlin Berlin’s Konzerthaus to it’s impractical to walk or take public landmarks as Kurfürstendamm; hear Beethoven’s Symphony transportation. We provide a transit Schloss Bellevue, official No. 9, performed by the pass or transit tickets in order to residence of Germany’s Konzerthausorchester and facilitate independent navigation. president; the Kaiser-Wilhelm Rudfunkchor Berlin. HILTON Although dinners are mostly on our Gedächtniskirche, its gutted, HOTEL GENDARMENMARKT (B) own, we generally attend at least WWII-bomb-strafed tower one performance of opera, music, dance or theater as a group. Oranienburg Berlin BERLIN Potsdam Berlin Wall GERMANY Memorial Mitte Reichstag Gendarmenmarkt Schloss Bellevue Museum Island Pariser Platz S Hilton pr Charlottenberg ee Hotel R iv er KAISER-WILHELM GEDÄCHTNISKIRCHE (MEMORIAL CHURCH) SUNDAY, APRIL 29 for a reception at Stanford’s 1950s the GDR turned it into a MUSEUM ISLAND Center in Berlin. HILTON HOTEL memorial to political prisoners, Begin the day with a guest GENDARMENMARKT (B,L) but after Reunification it became lecture, then take a guided tour the more inclusive Saalmuseum. of the Alte Nationalgalerie, part TUESDAY, MAY 1 Return to Berlin for an early din- POLITICAL BERLIN of the Museum Island complex, ner on our own before attending Visit the Memorial to the Mur- to view many of Germany’s art a concert of Franz Schubert dered Jews of Europe (Holo- treasures. At the Neues Mu- music at the Pierre-Boulez Saal. caust Memorial) and the site of seum take a tour that includes HILTON HOTEL GENDARMENMARKT (B,L) the bust of Nefertiti and at the Hitler’s bunker at Pariser Platz. Pergamon Museum view the Take a guided tour of the nearby THURSDAY, MAY 3 incomparable Ishtar Gate. Enjoy Reichstag building that dates MODERN BERLIN free time to visit some of the back to 1894. Home to the Ger- This morning, tour the “young other museums—our tickets are man Parliament until the Nazi scene”—street art, galleries and good for all five museums on era, it regained that status when start-ups—in the Berlin-Mitte Museum Island. Dinner is on it was renovated and reopened district, then take some free time in 1999. Enjoy dazzling views of our own this evening. HILTON for exploring. This afternoon, HOTEL GENDARMENMARKT (B,L) Berlin during lunch at its roof- tour the Topography of Terror garden restaurant, then walk up Museum, which opened in 2010 MONDAY, APRIL 30 a spiral ramp to the top of the and is located on the site of the P O T S D A M Reichstag’s transparent dome. Nazi regime’s SS and Gestapo Travel by coach to the historic HILTON HOTEL GENDARMENMARKT (B,L) headquarters that operated city of Potsdam to tour the 18th- from 1933 until 1945 when it century baroque palace and WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 was bombed by the Allies. The SACHSENHAUSEN gardens of Sans Souci, summer museum adjoins a remaining Depart by coach to visit the residence of Frederick the Great segment of the Berlin Wall. Enjoy former concentration camp of of Prussia. Later stroll through a farewell reception and buffet Sachsenhausen in Oranien- the Schloss Cecilienhof, the site dinner at our hotel this evening. burg, north of Berlin. Originally where the Potsdam Agreement HILTON HOTEL GENDARMENMARKT (B,D) was signed in 1945, settling a training center for SS officers, the status of Germany after Sachsenhausen was then the FRIDAY, MAY 4 World War II. Enjoy lunch at the site of Operation Bernhard, a BERLIN / U.S. nearby Movenpick Restaurant, currency counterfeiting opera- After breakfast and checkout, then drive across the Glienicke tion. After the fall of the Third transfer to the Tegel Airport for Bridge, site of Cold War spy ex- Reich, it became the largest flights home, arriving back in the changes as depicted in the film, concentration camp in the U.S. the same day. (B) Bridge of Spies. Return to Berlin Soviet Occupation Zone. In the BERLINER DOM (BERLIN CATHEDRAL) SIEGESSÄULE (VICTORY COLUMN) Trip-cancellation/interruption and baggage insurance Excess-baggage charges Personal items such as internet access, Trip Information telephone and fax calls, laundry and gratuities for nongroup services DATES AIR ARRANGEMENTS April 25 to May 4, 2018 (10 days) You are responsible for booking and purchasing airfare to the start location and from the end SIZE 40 participants (single accommodations location of the program. These air purchases limited—please call for availability) are NOT included in the program cost. To assist you in making these independent arrangements, COST* we will send you details with your confirmation $6,695 per person, double occupancy materials on when to arrive and depart. $7,595 per person, single occupancy *Stanford Alumni Association nonmembers WHAT TO EXPECT add $300 per person We consider this program to be a moderately active one that is at times physically demanding. INCLUDED All participants must be physically fit, active and in 8 nights of deluxe hotel accommodations good health.