Berlin Daily Life 2025

BERLIN, GERMANY - MARCH 20: General view of inside the Holzmarkt 25 on Mitte District of Berlin city on March 20, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin is the capital of Germany. A city-state and seat of the German government, it is one of the most important political, cultural, scientific, trade fair, economic, commercial and media centers in the world, and is also the most populous municipality in the European Union, with 3,721,459 inhabitants. After the fall of the wall (1989), Berlin became a center for the arts, design, media, music and fashion. Artists and creative people moved en masse to the city of Berlin. In 1991, the Bundestag decided to move the capital of reunified Germany to Berlin. The transfer of the institutional seats from Bonn to Berlin was completed in 1999, during the chancellorship of Gerhard Schröder. Berlin is one of the capitals of European cinema and is considered the capital of startups in Germany and an emerging international center for founders of innovative companies. (Photo by Stefano Guidi/Getty Images)