'Half the city lay in ruins': Hanns Zischler, the cultural memory of West Berlin

'Being 20 in West Berlin' (1/6). The actor, writer, translator, and photographer, a figure of Germany's artistic and intellectual scene, arrived in the walled-in city in the early 1970s. He never left, drawn by a vibrancy that set West Berlin apart from the rest of the Federal Republic of Germany at the time.