Tag: Berlin wall
Illustrated book about Heilandskirche Sacrow with Hanns Zischler – Kultur
Now in the summer, the actor and writer Hanns Zischler regularly goes out to Sacrow near Potsdam to swim. That’s always a bit time-consuming, the classic bathing spots in the…
Art from earth: A portrait of Ekkeland Götze – Munich
Ekkeland Götze has been collecting soil from all over the world for decades and uses it to create pictures. In the Himalayas, with the Maori or the Sioux. Once he…
Munich: Digital commemoration of the Berlin Wall in the English Garden – Munich
There are stories in this piece of concrete. About that of terror. For him, the Wall stands for unbelievable terror, says the light artist Rainer Ludwig. For a terror that…
Powerful legacy: 54 interviews on German unity. – Politics
Of Alexandra Föderl-Schmid Angela Merkel on the road as a spy in Moscow: The then Prime Minister of the GDR, Lothar de Maizière, sent Merkel to test the mood of…
Munich: 60 years of building the wall – waiting to leave the GDR – Munich
Torsten Sowa grew up in the GDR, at the age of about 20 it was clear: he wanted to leave. Since his grandfather lived in the West, that was conceivable…
The building of the Berlin Wall gave a huge boost to culture – culture
First you hear boots marching, a drum, an electric guitar, and then all of a sudden everything shoots down like an avalanche of rubble: who built the Berlin Wall 60…
“A day in August” on ZDF: The protagonists tell – the media
Every turning point is unexpected. August 12, 1961, a Saturday, is a perfectly normal day. Ingrid Taegner and her husband and child visit friends who have fled to West Berlin.…
ZDF documentary about the Berlin Wall: The protagonists tell – media
Every turning point is unexpected. August 12, 1961, a Saturday, is a perfectly normal day. Ingrid Taegner and her husband and child visit friends who have fled to West Berlin.…