1979 Germany East Berlin Hauptstadt der DDR Multiview TV Tower Postcard

1979 Germany East Berlin Hauptstadt der DDR Multiview TV Tower Postcard

Front

Colour multiview photographic postcard divided into four panels with white dividing borders, showing landmarks of East Berlin, capital of the German Democratic Republic. A bold red rectangular caption panel at the upper right carries the printed title in black:

Berlin · Hauptstadt der DDR

Upper left panel: the Neptunbrunnen (Neptune Fountain) by Reinhold Begas, its bronze figure of Neptune brandishing a trident above a rocky mass with tritons and sea creatures, surrounded by the four reclining allegorical female figures of the Rhine, Elbe, Oder and Vistula seated on the polished red granite basin rim. Jets of water arc into the wide circular pool. Behind stretches the immensely long, gently angled Plattenbau residential block along the Rathausstraße/Magistrale, faced in pale prefabricated panels with orange-brown accented end sections and hundreds of regular windows. A low pavilion with white tent-form roofing appears at the left, with young trees, lamp standards and a broad paved plaza in front.

Upper right panel: a view across the lawns and paved walkways of the Marx-Engels-Forum area toward a large modernist office slab in grey and white curtain walling, with the Berliner Fernsehturm (Television Tower) rising behind — its slender white shaft, faceted mirror-clad sphere and red-and-white antenna mast clearly visible. To the right stand further ministry blocks and the red brick tower of the Rotes Rathaus. Pedestrians stroll along the path and sit on benches and on the grass in summer sunshine.

Lower left panel: a broad multi-lane boulevard with a long line of parked cars — recognisable small East Bloc saloons in cream, red and orange (Trabant, Wartburg and Lada types) — filling the near kerb. Beyond rise the slab-blocks of the Karl-Marx-Allee district and the tall dark tower of the Hotel Stadt Berlin (Interhotel), with the Fernsehturm again dominating at the left above the trees. Modern curved-arm street lighting, traffic signals and green verges complete the view.

Lower right panel: a wide pedestrian promenade along the Alexanderstraße/Magistrale, empty and sunlit, with large square paving slabs. A distinctive triple-globe ornamental lamp standard in dark metal stands at the centre. To the right runs the vast horizontal facade of the Haus des Reisens / Alexanderplatz block, with a continuous glazed shopping arcade and canopy at street level bearing shop signage and awnings, and many storeys of ribbon windows above. Further residential towers, the tent-roofed pavilion and mature trees appear at the left.

All four views share a strong, saturated turquoise-blue sky typical of DDR colour offset printing.

Back

Divided-back postcard printed in pale grey-brown on white stock. Unused, with no message, address, stamp or postmark. A dotted-rule stamp box occupies the upper right, and three ruled address lines cross the lower right.

The caption block at the upper left lists the four views:

Neptunbrunnen mit Magistrale
Palast der Republik mit Fernseh- und UKW-Turm der Deutschen Post
Alexanderstraße mit Fernseh- und UKW-Turm der Deutschen Post
Magistrale

(Neptune Fountain with the Magistrale; Palace of the Republic with the television and VHF tower of the Deutsche Post; Alexanderstraße with the television and VHF tower of the Deutsche Post; the Magistrale.)

The publisher’s imprint runs vertically down the centre:

BILD UND HEIMAT · REICHENBACH (VOGTL)

At the lower left:

Farbfoto: Corazza, Berlin
DDR 0,20 M

A small printing-house device appears at the lower centre, and at the lower right the printing codes:

III/26/13 A1/159/79-280159 01 15 0266

Estimated Era

1979, German Democratic Republic. The printer’s code “159/79” gives the year of production directly; the Fernsehturm (1969), Hotel Stadt Berlin (1970) and completed Alexanderstraße Plattenbau developments all appear, and the “Hauptstadt der DDR” designation places it firmly in the socialist period before reunification.

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