Alexanderplatz
The fabulous commie sign over “Alex”, the famous train station in east Berlin more properly known as Bahnhof Alexanderplatz. It’s a beautiful sign, severely elegant — installed (I believe) during a retrofit in 1964.
This style of 3-D illuminated letterform is seen all over Germany’s capital city, a look that’s so appealingly tactile that I just can’t resist ‘em. I’ll be in Berlin again this summer, snapping up a storm.
The station’s name is perhaps most familiar as the title of the early 30s novel by Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz — the novel inspired a pair of films, but today’s post-war, post-wall Alex bears little resemblance to the densely active nighborhood that was.
