Berlin has long been home to the East German “Ampelmann” (traffic light man), a relic of the city’s divided past. While in Berlin in the mid-1990s, a few years after the fall of the Berlin ...

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This fruity confectionery may not be the showiest souvenir, but it combines two famous icons -- gummi candy and Ampelmann, the hat-wearing East German pedestrian traffic signal from the days when ...

East Germany's "Ampelmann" or pedestrian "traffic light man" is now instantly recognisable thanks to his chunky outline and wide-brimmed hat. He almost disappeared along with East Germany in the ...

This meant there were plenty of old pedestrian crossing lights - the Ampelmann - lying around, no longer guiding East Berliners across the streets. “I was speechless that such a characterful ...

Berlin's traffic light man, Ampelmann, has become a design classic ...media reports from around the world, found by BBC Monitoring Politicians in Berlin's central district want to modernise ...

While keeping pedestrians safe, the humble Ampelmann has become a big money-spinner too The little man with hat in the traffic light has transformed into an improbable symbol of reunified Germany.