Vintage Berlin - in pictures

East Berlin apartment blocks in 1975, with poster showing leader Erich Honecker. Photograph: Thomas Hoepker Photograph: Action images Child playing by the Berlin Wall, 1963. Photograph: Thomas Hoepker-Magnum/Thomas Hoepker Photograph: Thomas Hoepker-Magnum/Action images Faded signage in Prenzlauer Berg, East Berlin, 1976. Photograph: Thomas Hoepker Photograph: Action images East German medal winners leaving the 'Staatsrat' building with their new medals in 1975. Once a year medals and honours of all kinds and sizes were distributed to citizens of special merit, some with considerable monetary rewards. Photograph: Thomas Hoepker/Thomas Hoepker Photograph: Thomas Hoepker/Action images Rear window of a 'Trabbi' (Trabant) car in East Berlin, 1974, with decorative plastic cushion. Photograph: Thomas Hoepker Shop window in East Berlin, 1975. Photograph: Thomas Hoepker Celebrations for the tenth anniversary of the German Democratic Republic, 1959. Photograph: Thomas Hoepker Toilet time at an East Berlin nursery, 1975. Photograph: Thomas Hoepker