Translation of "Frontstadt" in English

The first guests arrive at the "frontline" of the Cold War.

During the wars against the French Revolutionary troops, Trier was once again a city at the front.

Soon Kobrin became for three weeks the front city.

Berlin will be a front city.

Again and again, there were clashes between Habsburg on the right side of the Rhine and France on the left side of the Rhine, while Neuenburg as a so-called "front city" changed occupation several times.

After losing Alsace and Sundgau in the Peace of Westphalia to France, Freiburg, in place of Ensisheim, did not just become the capital of Further Austria but also a "frontline" city.

And it is still enveloped by the notorious aura of being Adolf Hitler's imperial capital and the city at the front of the Cold War.

As a whole, however, they embodied the image of a front city abroad, a creative laboratory that produced avant-garde impulses by virtue of its very island existence.

It should be clear that there have been less political scandals since Berlin lost its status as "front city" and since the festival is no longer the place where the Eastern and Western blocs collide.

Commentators also demanded change from Berlin and the Berlinale: to move away from the "city on the frontline" mentality, towards to a more cosmopolitan outlook – otherwise supposedly sticking to principles would soon become " outdated dogma," as journalist Karena Niehoff warned in an article in the "Tagesspiegel".

Though it was already front city, but, appear, nobody paid attention to it, nobody thought of a possibility of a raid of enemy aircraft.

Additionally, Vienna ended up on the frontline of the Cold War, a hub for both organized crime and espionage, not to mention old Nazi cells with very blurry boundaries between the players.

As a child of the Cold War, for many years the Berlinale remained a political festival in the "frontline city" of West Berlin. In 1970, for example, the jury resigned due to the controversy over Michael Verhoeven's Vietnam war movie O.K. . In 1979 the socialist countries boycotted the festival in protest against Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter .

For example, at the Douaumont memorial in France, near the Verdun front, the name of a German soldier was recently inscribed on a memorial plaque for the first time.

Whether it is rearmament, hostile confrontations, the world on the brink of nuclear war, or spectacular espionage, the events of this era become tangible in the heart of the city - and are reflected in this unusual building.

The heightened interest in the Berlinale was seen as a sign that the festival had freed itself considerably from the political fate of the "frontline city".

In this archive, Venice, the place of longing at the junction of three migration corridors, emerges as a front-line European city and an exemplary prototype of the increasingly globalized city in which a decimated inner-city population meets armies of tourists and a parallel economy supported by illegal immigrants.

In the “front city of the Cold War,” Rene Block’s gallery, founded in 1964, became the most important forum for the new art.

In the "front city of the Cold War," Rene Block's gallery, founded in 1964, became the most important forum for the new art.

He portrays the typical murky stairwells and improvised apartments of young people who fled to the walled-in "frontline" city to pursue radical self-discovery.

The heightened interest in the Berlinale was seen as a sign that the festival had freed itself considerably from the political fate of the “frontline city”.