Example sentences for: platz

How can you use “platz” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Many buildings, including the Friedrichswerdersche Kirche (now home to the Schinkel-Museum, see page 58) and Schinkel’s Altes Museum (Old Museum; see page 76), were carefully restored by East Germany after air-raid bombing of World War II, and several quarters were rebuilt in the Old Berlin style, notably Gendarmenmarkt (formerly Platz der Akademie) and Museumsinsel (see page 76).

  • The new US Embassy is being built nearby, on land originally occupied by that country’s pre-war embassy, and a large stretch of ground leading towards Potsdamer Platz has been designated as the site of a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.

  • The impressive redevelopment of Potsdamer Platz has much to entertain children, including an IMAX cinema, and the Sony City entertainment center, where they can lay their hands on the latest electronic gadgets.

  • The plays of Berlin’s best-known playwright, Bertolt Brecht, naturally dominate the repertory of the theater he founded, the world-renowned Berliner Ensemble (Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1), although it does expand to other, mostly modern, classics, and promises to further enhance its outstanding reputation under the new artistic director, Claus Peymann.

  • Von Menzel’s Eisenwalzwerk (The Iron Foundry, 1875) is a striking portrayal of industrial labor, and Oskar Kokoschka’s painting, Pariser Platz (1926), recalls the bustle around the Brandenburg Gate during the twenties.


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