Which square hosted the 1990 “The Wall—Live in Berlin” concert by Roger Waters?

Potsdamer Platz hosted Roger Waters’s 1990 concert “The Wall—Live in Berlin.”

Roger Waters staged the concert on 21 July 1990, less than a year after the Berlin Wall opened. The performance took place in Potsdamer Platz, an area that had been divided by the Wall and was then becoming a powerful symbol of Berlin’s transformation. The concert presented a large-scale production of Pink Floyd’s album The Wall with guest performers including Scorpions, Cyndi Lauper, Bryan Adams, and Van Morrison.

The event was a benefit concert for the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief. Its imagery deliberately connected the album’s themes of separation and alienation with Berlin’s recent history. Potsdamer Platz later underwent extensive redevelopment, but in 1990 its open, scarred landscape made the former border especially suited to the production.