The Goethe-Institut’s cultural magazine promoting the dialogue with the Islamic world
Fikrun wa Fann is a cultural-political magazine with high demands on content. Alongside aesthetic questions and information on arts and culture in Germany and the Islamic world, it clearly focuses on topical socio-political debates. More ...
Topical Issue
1989 – The Fall of the Wall
The events of 1989, like those of 2001, had far-reaching consequences, not just in Germany and Europe but throughout the world. Not until 1989 did the world order established after the Second World War come to an end, and it was in Germany that this was first, and most clearly, perceptible. Germany celebrated its reunification on October 3rd 1990, less than one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th 1989. In the other countries of Eastern Europe people had to wait longer to reap the benefits of the collapse of Communism; and in some cases they are still waiting – also in eastern Germany. The articles by Julia Franck and Roswitha Haring, writers from the former German Democratic Republic, in this edition of Art&Thought testify how foreign the two parts of the country had become to each other, and how for many people the experiences of crossing the border and of reunification were a tremendous shock. 
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