Germany

Museum Island - Back to the past...    

Here are the virtual museums - let's have a stroll

Neues Museum (from Stone Age, Bronze Age to Ancient Egypt)
Altes Museum (lots of Greek and Roman antiques)
Alte Nationalgalerie (art gallery - here is a hidden door)
Pergamonmuseum (ancient cultures east of the Mediterranean)
Bode Museum (more antique looking exhibits and lots of art)

Many things we use or know today come from a very very old age.

                          

Some things can be found in the new museum.

 

Are you ready to dive into the past!

Neues Museum (new museum)

 

  Find out who or what can be seen on the photos.

 Estimate - How are old the objects?

Can you find the location in the museum? 

 

 

 pick a photo and find out the secret ...

 

 

a hidden note

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Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm 

In old times you only could hear a fairy tale from story tellers.

 

In the year 1812 two brothers  Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 

(EN IS ES GR DE)  made the first book of fairy tales (EN DE) in Germany.

Find out about the fairy tales of your country
(A LITTLE HELP: who is the author? which year? how many fairy tales?)

The german fairy tales are translated into 160 languages. 
They are UNESCO World Heritage (EN ES). 

The best known german fairy tale:

Cinderella (EN ES GR DE) 

Find out where the Cinderella story is from

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Music - The network of female and male composers

Music changes with the times. Today we can always listen to music. In old times there was only live music.

Beethovens Ode to Joy, the Anthem of Europe 🎵

Schnitzeljagd (=a game, english: paper chase) 
Find the musical genius

On this paintig you find many composers of music. Some play together, some listen to the music.

Step 1 Who is playing the flute in the the picture

(A LITTLE HELP: you find the painting in Alte Nationalgalerie upstairs, painter: A. Menzel, place: Sanssouci palace,🎵)

Step 2 The flute player`s youngest sister is sitting behind him


(A LITTLE HELP: xxx von Preussen, 🎵)

Step 3 On the red sofa you see the flute players favourite sister.

(A LITTLE HELP: her name changed to xxx von Bayreuth, 🎵)

Step 4 The piano is played by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. His father was a musical genius.

(A LITTLE HELP: the Bach family is big, 🎵)

...more about music:

Who were the first composers of music? 


Find names of german female composers of the baroque, classic, and romantic era
(A LITTLE HELP: the sister of Felix Mendelssohn, the wife of Robert Schumann, the widow of Gustav Mahler)

Are there female composers from your own country?
(A LITTLE HELP: Þorvaldsdóttir, Colbran, Kassia)

Some inventions are needed to make music: musical instruments (EN), musical symbols (EN) and notation (EN), microphone and loudspeaker (EN).

Build your own music instruments
Some instruments and how they sound like (play)

Build your own microphone and loudspeaker (EN)

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Music - Pipe organ building

Intagible world heritage

Pipe organs are the largest music instruments.🎵

Where do pipe organs come from?

(A LITTLE HELP: The first pipe organs were build in Africa)

Do you have (german) pipe organs in your country?

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The Wall of Berlin 1961-1989
Erecting the Wall

The wall is built in August 1961. Photo: DPA

Escape from East to West

Find out from which part of Germany the people were running away.

August 1961

Example no. 1 Conrad Schumann

August 15th 1961
(two days after the building of the Wall had begun):
The young soldier Conrad Schumann jumps over the barbed wire into West Berlin. He was guarding the new wall. He decided to run away from the east by himself.


Example no. 2 Elke Rosin

Elke Rosin escaped together with her family. The family climbed through the window of their living room.

Only seconds after, her house (Bernauer Straße 11), standing on the border, was sealed (=windows and doors closed forever).

Elke fleeing to the west on August 17th 1961 (photo: Landesarchiv Berlin)

The same building with sealed windows and doors (photo: Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer)

Find more information about the lifes of Conrad Schumann and Elke Rosin.

Summer and Autumn 1989 (EN) Escape of the Masses

Many people found interesting ways to flee.

Find out how people escaped.

(A LITTLE HELP: there are pictures of cars, hot air balloons, tunnels, boats)

Discuss why people wanted to leave the GDR in the first place.

The Chapel of Reconciliation at Bernauer Straße (right) and the demolition of its predecessor in the death strip in 1985 (left). Photo: DPA

A still-standing section of the Wall at Bernauer Straße, with a mock-up of the former death strip behind it. Photo: DPA

Picture of Berlin divided into the four sectors by the allied forces and Russia after the Second World War. The Wall went along the Russian sector and around West Berlin (yellow markings). The red dots indicate the check points.