1989/2009 Experiencing the Political Turnaround

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?More ...

When the Berlin Wall fell, they were children or teenagers - today they are around 30 years old. The so-called “Wendekinder” (“Berlin Wall children”) have lived the first half of their lives under the dictatorship of the GDR and the other half in reunited democratic Germany. How do they see the fall of the Wall in retrospect? Four "Wendekinder" explain.More ...

The GDR caught up with Mario Röllig in the delicatessen section of the West Berlin department store KaDeWe. Ten years ago, one afternoon in January 1999, the 31-year-old sales assistant suddenly found himself serving his former Stasi interrogator. It was the start of a journey into the past – and of Röllig’s battle against forgetting.More ...