The pictures were taken on and around Potsdamer Platz between 1975 and 1983—the time of the making of FURY IS A FEELING TOO. Cynthia Beatt spent much of her time walking around the neighborhood photographing and filming the façades of ruins and other buildings, following the Wall in either direction.
Cynthia Beatt relocated to West Berlin in 1975 and shortly afterwards moved into the spacious top floor of the almost empty Alte Deutsche Zentraldruckerei (literally the Old German Central Printing Press) near the Wall and Potsdamer Platz. © Cynthia Beatt
Filming with a Super 8 Nizo in the ruins of Berlin. © Cynthia Beatt
The façade of the Hansa Studio in Köthener Strasse. © Cynthia Beatt
Cynthia Beatt on the roof of Haus Vaterland. © Cynthia Beatt
View from Haus Vaterland overlooking the Wall. In the background the Reichstag building. © Cynthia Beatt
Tearing down the former nightclub and amusement temple Haus Vaterland. © Cynthia Beatt
Cynthia Beatt and Heinz Emigholz in a cinema. © Cynthia Beatt
Potsdamer Platz, looking east across the Wall towards the TV Tower. © Cynthia Beatt
Cynthia Beatt and Elfi Mikesch on the roof terrace. © Cynthia Beatt
The Tempodrom was founded in 1980 in Cynthia Beatt’s neighborhood in the form of a circus tent. © Cynthia Beatt
Today, the Topography of Terror is located on this site. © Cynthia Beatt
The façade of the Martin Gropius Building before restoration. © Cynthia Beatt
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