Where were you when the Wall came down? How are the children of German reunification dealing with their past – a past that is divided into East and West? What does it feel like for someone out shopping in the food hall of Berlin’s famous KaDeWe department store when they bump into their former interrogator of the Stasi – the GDR’s secret police? Our 1989/2009 dossier has compiled people’s experiences from both East and West - it looks back at German history and at the same time opens up new perspectives.
Experiencing the Political Turnaround
How people coped with the fallShaping Freedom
Societies in flux1989 – The Verge of New Departures
Peaceful revolution1989 – The Global View
Goethe-Institut projects
“I was enthused and happy”
We made phone calls at random across the whole of Germany. We wanted the people to tell us something about the revolutionary changes that occurred in their country 20 years ago: How did you experience the 9th of November, 1989, and how have things changed for you since?
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