Berolina

[1] In 1871, emperor William I ordered an 11 m (36 ft) Berolina statue in Belle-Alliance-Platz (today's Mehringplatz), to glorify the homecoming victorious troops of the Franco-Prussian War.

[2] Another statue was designed in 1889 by the sculptors Emil Hundrieser [de] (1846–1911) and Michel Lock (1848–1898) as a decorative element for the state visit of King Umberto I of Italy.

The inspiration allegedly was from a painting in the Rotes Rathaus city hall that featured cobbler's daughter Anna Sasse.

[4] In 1980s, the "Berolina" music awards were organized, sponsored by the TV networks ARD, ZDF and ORF, and hosted on television by Thomas Gottschalk on 27 August 1987 with a total of 15 musicians and bands.

[2] Several songs, poems, and plays are named "Berolina"; as for example, works by Kurt Tucholsky,[5] Günter Neumann, Ulli Herzog, and Alexander von Bentheim.

Berolina statue in Alexanderplatz, c. 1900
First Berolina statue in Belle-Alliance-Platz, 1871
Berolina in 1937, on the right Alexanderplatz station