{"id":1728,"date":"2005-03-21T17:33:08","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T22:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=1728"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:40:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:40:50","slug":"uncovering-berlin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2005\/spring05\/features\/uncovering-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncovering Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 4px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/Bates_Magazine\/spring05\/features\/berlin\/lead-BERLIN2487.jpg\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Framed by Beliners, Caliandra Lanza-Weil &#8217;06 is attentive during a tour of historic Nazi sites during her\u00a0Bates Fall Semester program in Berlin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every week during\u00a0their fall semester in Berlin, history professors Steve Hochstadt and Elizabeth Tobin joined\u00a0their students in an exploration of the city\u00a0and its surroundings, on guided tours of neighborhoods and\u00a0museums, and to a concentration camp and a castle.<\/p>\n<p>Each student was\u00a0asked them to pick out a place of their own, about which they could read and talk to people. &#8220;We asked them to go there, look, and observe \u2014 <em>see<\/em> what role that place plays in Berlin\u2019s life.&#8221; Below are the results of those investigations:\u00a010 student essays, each one\u00a0describing one\u00a0of those\u00a0Berlin places, coupled with photography by Bates Magazine staff photographer Phyllis Graber Jensen.<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x150110.xml\">Lindley Brainard &#8217;06<\/a> at Onklel Philipp&#8217;s Spielzeug Werkstatt<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x150121.xml\">Kathryn Clark &#8217;06<\/a> at Mauerpark<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x150119.xml\">Stephanie Garcia &#8217;06<\/a> at Sachsenhausen<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x150114.xml\">Andrew Jarboe &#8217;05<\/a> at Sowjetisches Ehrenmal<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x150117.xml\">Caliandra Lanza-Weil &#8217;06<\/a> at Judisches Museum Berlin<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x150118.xml\">John Mulligan &#8217;06<\/a> at Berlin Abgeordnetenhaus<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x150122.xml\">Tanya Nauvel &#8217;06<\/a> at Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x150120.xml\">Fabio Periera &#8217;07<\/a> at Kadewe<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x150113.xml\">Melissa Simones &#8217;06<\/a> at Friedrichshain Volkspark<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x150116.xml\">Michael Wilson &#8217;07<\/a> at Torpedokafer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<p>In walking the streets of Berlin, they\u00a0learned the modern history of German history, &#8220;where a residue of buildings, monuments, and architectural styles connect us to the past.\u00a0to see\u00a0those residues,&#8221; said the professors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every aspect of our program came together in these projects: trying to understand German history and culture; getting comfortable in the city of Berlin; speaking in German; gaining independence and self-confidence; and learning from each otherm,&#8221; said Hochstadt and Tobin. &#8220;The lesson they learned, we hope, is how to examine their environment, getting past facades to learn the foundation of history and culture \u2014 a skill they can use wherever they go in life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tobin and Hochstadt joined colleague Denis Sweet, professor of German, in teaching the Bates Fall Semester in Berlin 2004. 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