The Game Staff
The echoes of past triumphs resonating, East German football clubs still vividly remember their glorious days before the fall of the Berlin Wall. They once regularly graced the stages of European cup finals and amassed championships, now, 33 years after the German reunification, the traditional teams from the East find themselves in the bottom divisions of German football.
In the recent episode of Behind the Lens, The Game Magazine focused on photographer Mehmet Masum Süer, giving readers an in-depth look at the methods he has developed over the course of four decades.
Amid the backdrop of war-torn Europe, a tale that sounds more like fiction than reality unfolded. It’s the story of Bernhard Carl “Bert” Trautmann – a former Luftwaffe paratrooper, a war prisoner, and ultimately, a football icon.
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