Mirco Becker: Damals in Frankfurt Spezial - Die Zeil

Few streets have shaped Frankfurt as profoundly as the Zeil - and few hold as many memories: of the Kaufhof and Karstadt department stores, of Schneider, Wronker and Ott & Heinemann, of the Zeilgalerie with its escalator to nowhere, and of Café Hauptwache, a fixture for generations of Frankfurters.

The Zeil was also once one of the city's most sought-after residential streets: Frankfurt's very first lord mayor lived here, and the Goethe family's rise to prominence began on this very stretch. From imperial residences to department-store scandals, from street riots to the construction of the U-Bahn - the Zeil has always been a stage for Frankfurt's history.

In his new show, Mirco Becker takes the audience on a journey through the centuries between Hauptwache and Konstablerwache, illustrated with rare photographs and surprising stories that many will be hearing for the first time.