Twenty Years Later – Goethe-Institut Projects on the Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall

Athens

Exhibition, 9 November 2009
Democracy in Motion
In 1990 Eastern German photographers in Berlin founded the OSTKREUZ agency. For the Goethe-Institut’s exhibition Democracy in Motion eight photographers from the renowned agency take a look at German reality and sensibilities.

Panel discussion, 16 November 2009
1989 – The Berlin Wall Falls
Walter Momper, former governing mayor of Berlin, Bernhard Vogel, executive chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Richard Schroeder, chairman of the SPD parliamentary group of the last Volkskammer of the German Democratic Republic, will speak about their memories of 1989.

Belgrade

Theatre project, 17 May 2009
After The Fall
In the scope of the cross-border theatre project, 17 playwrights from 15 European countries dealt with the socio-political changes in their homelands since the fall of the wall. In his play Falsifikator (The Counterfeiter), Goran Marković searches for the causes of the collapse of Yugoslavia.

Series of events, 22 October – 16 November 2009
Deutsche Tage
In addition to a film week, music events and theatre performances, starting 30 October a wall installation by artist Frank Bölter will be assembled on Belgrade’s Republic Square. The wall will not, of course, make it past 9 November.

Berlin

9 November 2009
Mauerreise – the wall in the world
The bricks of the Mauerreise – the wall in the world travelled to countries where border conflicts still affect the people’s lives today. Artists and young people there decorated the stones. At the big “Festival of Freedom” at Brandenburg Gate the stones will be set up along the line of the former Berlin wall to form an approximately two kilometre long gallery of dominoes and collapsed on 9 November using the domino effect.

Short film competition, 3 November 2009
Crossing Boundaries
Crossing Boundaries invited young filmmakers from eleven countries to deal with the crossing of geographical and civil boundaries of the 20th century. The winning films will be announced in Berlin on 3 November.

Online Literature Project
Mein 1989
Nine women writers from six central European countries deal with the end of the Cold War in literature and remember “their” 1989. Berlin author Nora Bossong reports on her first explorations in the former “zone” and how she first came into contact with Karl Marx.

Bordeaux

Literature Days, 20 – 21 November 2009
German Literature Since the Fall of the Wall: Status and Perspectives
From the “Wenderoman” to the latest literary trends: Writers Karsten Dümmel, Julia Schoch, Jochen Jung and Perikles Monioudis will read from their works and discuss with translators, publishers, literature scholars and readers.

Boston

Panel discussion, 28 October 2009
20 Years after the Fall of the Wall: Revealing the Truth?
Marianne Birthler, federal commissioner for Stasi documents, and Wolf Biermann, critical man of letters and music – two former East German rebels assess the future of united Germany.

Film evening, 10 November 2009
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to East German Television
East German television survived three years longer than the GDR. Its images testify to a society and a media culture that today is no more than an historic phenomenon. The evening will examine the background and idiosyncrasies of GDR television and show rare footage.

Exhibition, 9 November – 18 December 2009
Wir waren so frei … Moments in Time 1989/1990
The exhibition Moments in Time 1989/1990 captures the wealth of images from the turn of the tide in May 1989 to December 1990 in private and official photographs, films and television. An internet archive is collecting the images and making them publicly accessible.
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Bratislava

Exhibition, 22 October – 15 November 2009
The Enemy is Whoever Thinks Differently
... was the watchword of the Ministry of State Security. Special attention is given by the exhibition to those who were targets of state security.
Online Literature Project
Mein 1989
Nine women writers from six central European countries deal with the end of the Cold War in literature and remember “their” 1989. Slovak writer Svetlana Žuchová describes how her memories of the events of 1989 change over the course of time.

Budapest

Author workshop, 30 January 2009
After The Fall
In the scope of the cross-border theatre project, 17 playwrights from 15 European countries dealt with the socio-political changes in their homelands since the fall of the wall. Hungarian dramaturge Anna Lengyel worked on a play reading in a three-day workshop together with playwright László Márton and young authors.

Symposium, 23 – 25 November 2009
20 Years After – Dramaturgy and Theatre in Central Europe
How did the fall of the Iron Curtain change the theatrical landscape of Central Eastern Europe? Theatre-makers from young democracies of Central Europe will come together with experts from Germany, including the theatre scholars Erika Fischer-Lichte and Hans-Thies Lehmann, to exchange their experiences.

Author Talk in Budapest / Pécs, 13 – 14 November 2009
German-Hungarian Writers’ Encounter with Ingo Schulze and György Dalos
In the summer of 1989, thousands of East Germans were able to flee to the west safely from Hungary. Hungary is also the setting of the novels of Ingo Schulze and György Dalos. On 13 November and on 14 November they will read and talk in Budapest and in Pécs.

Chicago

Conference, 23 – 24 October 2009
The Fall of The Wall Reconsidered: Progress and Perspectives 20 Years after “die Wende”
Reflections on the eastern German appetite for bananas and the worldwide collapse of the Soviet satellite states – the conference looks at a broad spectrum of political, social and cultural aspects of the fall of the wall.

Film series, 7 May – 22 October
Made Behind the Wall – Masterpieces of East German Cinema
To liberate the citizens of the GDR from Fascist ideologies and educate them to be true Socialists – that was the mission of the DEFA, the GDR’s state-owned film studio. It created classic fairy tale films, bizarre science fiction movies, political dramas and kitschy romances.

Dresden

Theatre festival, 31 October – 8 November
After the Fall – Europe after 1989
Seventeen playwrights from all over Europe were commissioned to write plays reflecting the socio-political changes in their homelands. The Staatsschauspiel Dresden will present seven of these plays.

Dublin

Theatre project, 10 October 2009
After the Fall
In the scope of the cross-border theatre project, 17 playwrights from 15 European countries dealt with the socio-political changes in their homelands since the fall of the wall. In her play Shibboleth Stacey Greggs makes today’s Belfast her subject: masons build a “peace wall” in the city to divide it into a Catholic and a Protestant zone.
Symposium, 22 – 24 October 2009
Re-Imagining the Nation? Transformations of German Cultural Identity since 1989
Being German – before and after the fall of the wall. Scholars from literature and film, art history, architecture and political science discuss the present status and the changes in the German cultural identity since 1989.

Johannesburg

Series of events, October and November 2009
Cracking Walls
On 9 November 2009, in a symbolic action, parts of the wall surrounding the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg will be torn down. This act will be accompanied by a diversified cultural programme.

Copenhagen

Theatre project, 11 September 2009
After The Fall
In the scope of the cross-border theatre project, 17 playwrights from 15 European countries dealt with the socio-political changes in their homelands since the fall of the wall. Christian Lollike’s play Fremtidens Historie (History of the Future) is a spotlight on the complexities of art and life, of poverty and wealth, west and east, multiculturalness, faith and terror.

Film series, 19 – 29 November 2009
Die Mauer
The wall and the people who lived with it are the subjects of a number of German films. The Goethe-Institut Copenhagen and Cinemateket will screen a film series with a selection of the better-known wall movies, including the new classics “Good bye, Lenin!” (2003) and “The Lives of Others” (2006).

Lille

Study days, film series and exhibition, 8 October – 2 November
20 Years Ago – The “Wende” and Fall of the Wall
Two German-French study days and the film series “The Other Viewpoint – the GDR in Films” will examine the GDR regime, the origins and the consequences of the fall of the wall and the power of images over the course of the turnabout.

London

Filmproject, 9 November 2009
The Invisible Frame: Swinton and the Wall
Scottish actor Tilda Swinton cycles along the former course of the Berlin wall for the film The Invisible Frame. On 9 November 2009 it will have its British premiere at the Goethe-Institut in London.

Los Angeles

Exhibition, 19 November – 5 December 2009
Virtual Wall
The interactive installation Virtual Wall by artists Tamiko Thiel and Teresa Reuter recreates the wall as a 3-D computer animation.

Milan

Exhibition, 9 – 27 November 2009
No one is where they wanted to be
Historical East German propaganda images and mounted West German TV images – in videos, photos and slide projections, the exhibition shows German reunification and its consequences.

Montevideo

Conference, 19 – 21 October 2009
Places of Remembrance – Perspectives from Germany
Hubertus Knabe, director of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen memorial, will talk with staff of the Museo de la Memoria and representatives from the Museo de Arte y Memoria, the memorial in the former building of the Argentinean secret service, about places of remembrance.

Montreal

Film series, 17 September – 11 December 2009
1989 / 2009: Twenty Years after the Fall
Sixteen documentary and feature films made between 1987 and 2009 reflect on various aspects of life prior to and after the fall of the wall. Guests to the film series include the German director Andreas Dresen and Alexander Hacke, bassist of Einstürzenden Neubauten.

Mühlheim an der Ruhr

Theatre festival, 1 – 6 November 2009
After the Fall – Europe after 1989
Twenty playwrights were commissioned to write plays reflecting the socio-political changes in their homelands. The Theaterbüro will present five of these plays from different theatre landscapes in Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Nancy

Exhibition, 10 September – 10 November 2009
When the wall came down – Photos from 1989/90 by Livio Senigalliesi
Photographer and war correspondent Livio Senigalliesi captured divided Berlin and the fall of the wall in photographs. His exhibition will be shown as part of the Departures 49 - 89 – 2009 cycle.

Neu Delhi

Exhibition, 10 – 22 December 2009
Virtual Wall - ReConstructing the wall by Tamiko Thiel and Teresa Reuter
The multimedia VR (virtual reality) artwork reconstructs the Berlin wall using life-sized, computer-aided projection and thus makes it possible to temporarily relive history.

New York

Performance, 9 November 2009
Dancing with the wall: Nejla Yatkin
Dancing between the Goethe-Institut’s Ludlow 38 project space and the Wyoming Building in New York, dancer and choreographer Neijla Yatkin remembers the wall in Berlin.

Palermo

Film series, 7 October – 16 December 2009
“deutsche” vita 1989-2009 – Twenty Years After the Fall of the Wall
Eleven films from the recent past tell stories from very different perspectives of life in divided Germany, of the events of autumn 1989 and of the upheavals of the ensuing years.

Paris

Film and photography exhibition, 29 September – 17 December 2009
Moments in Time 1989/1990
Beyond the official fall-of-the-wall images in the media, Moments in Time 1989/1990 shows photographs and home videos by private individuals, film and photo amateurs from the days between May 1989 and October 1990.

Reading, 20 October 2009
Die Nacht, in der die Mauer fiel – The Night the Wall Came Down
This is the title of an anthology published in Germany, in which 25 writers tell of 9 November 1989. Among the authors are Marcel Beyer (“west”) and Thomas Rosenlöcher (“east”).

Installation and performance, 9 – 10 November 2009
The Fall of the Wall – 20 Years After
In 1985, Burkhard Maus and Philipp Boesel photographed the entire wall in West Berlin. Using these photos, a bit of the wall is recreated as a work of remembrance, which will be toppled in the night from 9 to 10 November 2009.

Symposium, 12 and 13 November 2009
European Colloquium – the Fall of the Wall
A two-day colloquium during which civil rights activist Jens Reich, Hungarian author György Konrad, French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut, Czech author Antonin Liehm and other participants discuss the role of intellectuals in Europe after 1989.

Encounter, 4 – 13 December 2009
An Encounter with Alexander Kluge
Filmmaker, author and producer Alexander Kluge presents his film adaptation of Karl Marx’s Capital and reads from his new book Labyrinth der zärtlichen Kraft, love stories after the fall of the wall.

Prague

Theatre project, 14 September 2009
After The Fall
In the scope of the cross-border theatre project, 17 playwrights from 15 European countries dealt with the socio-political changes in their homelands since the fall of the wall. In her play Zazdenà (Immured), Barborà Vaculovà tells the story of her team at the Theater Letí and takes a “look from two sides” at the fall of the wall.

10 September – 20 October 2009
Pupil competition
For pupils, the “Wende” is an event from their history books. A competition now challenges them to trace the changes it brought about in their personal surroundings. They present the results digitally, in blogs, podcasts and video clips.

Internet, Web literature project
My 1989
Writers from Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary depict their own personal impressions of the events that occurred when the wall came down.
Author Radka Denemarková gave the revolution a helping hand by personally polishing a parquet floor – so she writes.
Czech author Petra Hůlová describes how she experienced the time of the revolution as a young girl in Prague.

Exhibition in Prague / Wroclaw, Dresden and Bratislava, Autumn 2009
Himmelweit gleich
Young students in Prague, Bratislava, Wroclaw and Dresden study the events of the “Wende.” The results are texts, photos and audio files, which will be shown in public spaces in the cities studied on exhibition steles.

Ramallah

Art event, 6 July 2009
Mauerreise – the wall in the world
The Goethe-Institut sent “wall building stones” to countries where border conflicts affect people’s lives. Artists and young people there decorated the stones. In Ramallah, 30 students designed six stones. They were exhibited from 6 July on the campus of Bir Zeit University and then at the German-French Culture Centre.

Photography exhibition, 28 October – 10 November 2009
Life in a Divided Land
In 1981, the Lebanese photographer Mahmud Dabdoub came to Leipzig where he captured public life in his new homeland in photographs. The results are impressive black and white photos.

Reading, 4 November
Rayk Wieland
Author Rayk Wieland was spied on by the Stasi under the code name “W.” His file contained all of the poems that can now be read in his novel Ich schlage vor, dass wir uns küssen.

Riga

Exhibition, 2 – 28 November 2009
Arī Brīvība
Various cultural institutions in Latvia joined with the Goethe-Institut for the competition Arī Brīvība (Freedom, Too). All Latvian artists were challenged to remind the public of the historic events with innovative posters.

Conference, 27 and 29 October 2009
Occupation, Collaboration, Resistance – History and its Perception in Memory and Historical Research
To what extent does the awareness of history deviate in east and west? At the conference, international historians will look into this question.

Online Literature Project
Mein 1989
Nine women writers from six central European countries deal with the end of the Cold War in literature and remember “their” 1989. “Awakening is in the air” writes Latvian author Nora Ikstena in her article about the spring of the year of change.

Rom

Book publication, exhibition
1989 – the book
Ten great writers contributed parables of famous and unknown, large and small walls to a joint book. Stories full of imagination and inventiveness and the illustrations by Henning Wagenbreth characterize an impressive picture contrary to the dismal grey of the walls.

Sana’a

Art event, 24 May – 24 June 2009
Mauerreise – the wall in the world
The Goethe-Institut sent “wall building stones” to countries where border conflicts affect people’s lives. Artists and young people there decorated the stones. The eight Yemini artists come from both the former north of the country and from the south – no conflicts arose in dividing up the four stones.

Theatre project and photography exhibition
Linie 1 and Zoom on Sana’a
“Ma’ak Nazl,” the Yemini musical adaption, offers an insight into a reunified society at the southern edge of the Arabian Peninsula. Another highlight: the exhibition “Zoom on Sana’a,” a German-Yemeni photography project on the social situation in the twentieth year of Yemeni unification.
The German House in Yemen
German Cultural Weeks
Zoom on Sana’a

San Francisco

Photography exhibition, 3 March – 21 December 2009
Icons of a Border Installation
The exhibition investigates the visible traces of the wall, such as its remnants, abandoned watchtowers and still visible borderlines. The mental traces of the wall in the lives of people in Berlin are also captured in photographs and audio recordings.

The exhibition toured the USA all year:
13 January – 14 April 2009: Goethe-Institut New York, New York, NY
3 March – 14 April 2009: Portland State University, Library, Portland, OR
21 April – 2 June 2009: Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
23 April – 16 May 2009: Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, VA
25 May – 26 June 2009: Goethe-Institut Washington, Washington, DC
10 August – 21 September 2009: Denver Public Library, Denver, CO
10 August – 21 September 2009: The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
28 September – 2 November 2009: University of California, Irvine, CA
28 September – 19 October 2009: University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
29 October – 16 November 2009: University of Missouri, St Louis, MO
9 November – 21 December 2009: University of California, Berkeley, CA
26 November – 21 December 2009: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

São Paulo

Exhibition, 9 – 15 November 2009
D | este | lado
An exhibition opens on 9 November that makes the fall of the wall tangible in the installations of four Brazilian artists. At the same time, two photograph exhibitions by German artists will be presented as well as an exhibition of video art.

Seminar, 23 October 2009
Places of Remembrance – Perspectives from Germany
Hubertus Knabe, director of the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen memorial and Tobias Hollitzer of the Museum Runde Ecke in Leipzig will contribute their experiences to the discussion of the Memorial de Resistencia, a memorial of the military dictatorship in Brazil.

Sarajevo

Theatre project, 25 April 2009
After The Fall
In the scope of the cross-border theatre project, 17 playwrights from 15 European countries dealt with the socio-political changes in their homelands since the fall of the wall. In Mousefuckers, Almir Imsirevic tells of an encounter between “identity-less” Yugoslavs who appear to be trapped in the past.

Exhibition, 9 November – 17 November
Local Time
Stefan Koppelkamm’s photography exhibition contrasts shots of East German towns from the years 1990/1991 with the same subjects photographed in 2001 and 2002. The exhibition will be shown simultaneously in other cities: Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Belgrade, Bratislava, Genoa, Glasgow, Cairo, Cracow, Lille, Madrid, Milan, Manchester Melbourne, Minsk, Moscow, Palermo, Prague, Riga, Rome, Rotterdam, Santiago, Sofia, Tallinn, Tel Aviv, Trieste, Turin, Vilnius and Zagreb.

Discussion, 12 November 2009
Divided Memory – on dealing with the past 20 years after the fall of the wall. Perspectives from Bosnia-Herzegovina and from Germany
As part of the series of events for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall, this discussion will look at perspectives from Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as from Germany.

Tbilissi

Exhibition, 3 October 2009
20 Years Since the Fall of the Wall
Twenty posters show the events of the peaceful revolution and Germany’s reunification 20 years ago. The exhibition opened to receive the German ambassador on the Day of Germany Unity on 3 October and since then has been touring through Georgia.

Tokyo

Symposium, 27 October 2009
After the fall of the wall – the tradition of the “European city”?
At the conference Berlin after the fall of the wall leading architects and urban planners from Japan and Germany will discuss the development of Berlin since 1989.

9 November 2009
Open House
At the Open House in the Goethe-Institut Tokyo, a joint programme with EUNIC Japan, the federation of European cultural institutes in Japan, will focus on European perspectives of the socio-political developments since the fall of the wall.

Toulouse

Exhibition, 1 – 11 November 2009
The Divided City
A wall on the Place du Capitole in Toulouse conveys how it must have felt to suddenly be living in a divided city. The wall serves as an exhibition surface for the “wall photos” and as an information surface.

Vilnius

Campaign, 9 October 2009
Graffiti without Borders
The winners of the contest Graffiti without Borders will realize their winning designs on 9 October, while at the Skalvija cinema, the graffiti documentary “Alter ego“ (2007) by Daniel Thouw will be shown.

Warsaw

Discussion, 21 October 2009
Rethinking Europe: “Żegnaj DDR! Przez Warszawę ku wolności”
The film “Żegnaj DDR! Przez Warszawę ku wolności” (Bye-bye, GDR! Via Warsaw to Freedom) will be shown on the fifth evening of discussions in the series Rethinking Europe, an international series of talks on the upheaval and new departures in Europe in 1939, 1989 and 2009.

Online Literature Project
Mein 1989
Nine women writers from six central European countries deal with the end of the Cold War in literature and remember “their” 1989.
Polish author Sylwia Chutnik describes what the turning point meant in her homeland from the perspective of a young girl.
Polish author Magdalena Tulli writes how the wall divided the social map of Europe into a “winners’” and a “losers’ side.”

Washington, DC

Concert, 10 November 2009
The: Remembrance in Music
On 10 November, the 12 cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic will perform in Washington, DC.

Exhibition, 4 November 2009 – 8 January 2010
Iconoclash!
East German symbols were created for eternity, but over the course of time they were adulterated, damaged, yet some were also restored. The exhibition shows how political iconography changes when the existing system of values alters.

Film series, 5 October – 30 November 2009
Wende Flicks: Last Films from East Germany
Films by East German filmmakers from the years 1988 until 1994 are shown in the film series Wende Flicks. Some are from the last generation of East German filmmakers who trained at DEFA, the state-run film production studio.

Wellington

Film series, 4 – 11 November 2009
Novemberkinder
The film festival is dedicating the wall city of Berlin its own series: Focus Berlin is one of the focal points of the festival.
The film programme will then tour New Zealand:
Wellington 4–11 November 2009, Embassy & Film Archive
Auckland 11–18 November 2009, Rialto Newmarket
Christchurch 18–22 November 2009, Rialto
Dunedin 25–29 November 2009, Rialto

International conference, 3 – 4 November 2009
Europe 20 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall
What has changed since the fall of the wall? More importantly, have any lives stayed the same? These questions will be discussed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate H.E. Lech Wałęsa, Christopher Pattens, Chancellor of Oxford University and British politician, Michael Zürn, the director 'Department of Transnational Conflict and International Institutions at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin' (WZB) and David Daly, ambassador of the delegation of the European Commission to Australia and New Zealand.

Mexico City

Art event, 13 – 23 August 2009
Mauerreise – the wall in the world
The Goethe-Institut sent “wall building stones” to countries where border conflicts affect people’s lives. Artists and young people there decorated the stones. In Mexico the stones were designed by graffiti artists Dhear and Saner, the artists Mora Diez and Dulce Chacón and the multimedia artist Juan Pablo Villegas.

Beijing

Art event, 13 August 2009
Mauerreise – the wall in the world
The Goethe-Institut sent “wall building stones” to countries where border conflicts affect people’s lives. Artists and young people there decorated the stones. In China, four of the stones were designed by artists Huang Rui, Wang Guangyi, Xu Bing and Zhang Xiaogang. Their works were shown on 13 August at the German Embassy in Beijing.

Seoul

Art event, 28 August 2009
Mauerreise – the wall in the world
The Goethe-Institut sent “wall building stones” to countries where border conflicts affect people’s lives. Artists and young people there decorated the stones. In Korea, author Hwang Sok-Yong and the artists Ahn Kyu-Chul and Suh Yong-Sun designed the stones. On 28 August the Korean works were presented at the Goethe-Institut Seoul.

Umm el-Fahem

Art event, 20 June 2009
Mauerreise – the wall in the world
The Goethe-Institut sent “wall building stones” to countries where border conflicts affect people’s lives. Artists and young people there decorated the stones. In Umm el-Fahem a group of Jewish and Arab artists designed the stones together with children and young people. They were exhibited on 20 June at the Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery.

Nicosia

Art event, 13 September 2009
Mauerreise – the wall in the world
The Goethe-Institut sent “wall building stones” to countries where border conflicts affect people’s lives. Artists and young people there decorated the stones. In Cyprus both Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot artists and graffitists designed the stones as well as well-known writers such as Christos Hadjipapas, president of the Cypriot authors’ association.

Brussels

Theatre project, 14 May 2009
After The Fall
In the scope of the cross-border theatre project, 17 playwrights from 15 European countries dealt with the socio-political changes in their homelands since the fall of the wall. With his play Muur (Wall), Pieter de Buysser creates a hyper-realistic fairy tale in which dreams of history and free will, politics and equality are told only to melt away like water.

Amsterdam

Theatre project, 30 October 2009
After The Fall
In the scope of the cross-border theatre project, 17 playwrights from 15 European countries dealt with the socio-political changes in their homelands since the fall of the wall. In the play 2012, Marjiolijn van Heemstra asks whether the ideal of human dignity requires a new definition in the new century.

Chisinău

Theatre project, 28 November 2009
After The Fall
In the scope of the cross-border theatre project, 17 playwrights from 15 European countries dealt with the socio-political changes in their homelands since the fall of the wall. Moldavian playwright Nicoleta Esinencu draws a dark picture of her homeland since the fall of the wall in her play Antidot (Antidote).

Ploieşti

Theatre project, 21 May 2009
After The Fall
In the scope of the cross-border theatre project, 17 playwrights from 15 European countries dealt with the socio-political changes in their homelands since the fall of the wall. In the play Zidul (The Wall), Theodora Herghelegiu demonstrates the problems of alienation, the lack of authenticity and the helplessness in managing the new-found freedom.

Norrköping / Linköping

Theatre project, 1 October 2009
After The Fall
In the scope of the cross-border theatre project, 17 playwrights from 15 European countries dealt with the socio-political changes in their homelands since the fall of the wall. OMFLICKORKUNDEDÖDA (IFGIRLSCOULDKILL) by Asa Lindholm is a terrifying and sad comedy about what it means to live as a young woman in the land with the highest rank of equality.

Cracow

Theatre project, 19 June 2009
After The Fall
In the scope of the cross-border theatre project, 17 playwrights from 15 European countries dealt with the socio-political changes in their homelands since the fall of the wall. The play Czekając Na Turka (Waiting for the Turk) by Andrzej Stasiuk tells of the lives of former frontier runners and border guards who think longingly back on the days of border traffic.

Bydgoszcz

Theatre project, 15 October 2009
After The Fall
In the scope of the cross-border theatre project, 17 playwrights from 15 European countries dealt with the socio-political changes in their homelands since the fall of the wall. In the play V(F)ICD-10 Transformations by Artur Pałgya, seven people talk about what has changed in their lives since 1989.

Espoo

Theatre project, 27 October 2009
After The Fall
In the scope of the cross-border theatre project, 17 playwrights from 15 European countries dealt with the socio-political changes in their homelands since the fall of the wall. Finnish writer Juha Siltanen reveals an intelligent theatre show in Raivobkabaree (Rage Cabaret) in which he delves deeply into the European and the Finnish traditions of cabaret.

St. Petersburg

Exhibition, 1 November – 15 December 2009
1989–2009: Turbulent World – Telling Time
Sixteen contemporary photography and video works from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgian, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Uzbekistan and Germany reveal how the changes since the fall of the wall are expressed in art. Two versions of the exhibition will be on tour simultaneously:
Moscow, Russia, 31 August – 20 September 2009
Minsk, Belarus, 29 September – 30 October 2009
Tbilisi, Georgia, 01 November – 15 December 2009
Kiev, Ukraine, 13 November 2009 – 31. January 2010
Almaty, Kazakhstan, March 2010
St. Petersburg, Russia, April 2010
Bishkek, Kirgizstan, April 2010
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, May 2010
Novosibirsk, Russia, September 2010
Followed by other cities in Russia.

Barcelona

Event, 9 November 2009
European talks and much more
Exhibitions, films, music and high profile panel discussions: for one evening the Goethe-Institut Barcelona will celebrate the fall of the wall 20 years ago with events held on all of its four storeys.

Bochum

Online Literature Project
Mein 1989
Nine women writers from six central European countries deal with the end of the Cold War in literature and remember “their” 1989. Author Katja Müller-Lange dares to use an unusual protagonist and portrays the Wende from a very personal perspective.

Manchester

Theatre project, 4 February 2009
After The Fall
In the scope of the cross-border theatre project, 17 playwrights from 15 European countries dealt with the socio-political changes in their homelands since the fall of the wall. In the play Not Yet by Sarah-Jane Dickenson, pupils learn about the fall of the wall during their German lesson. However, to do so, they first have to overcome walls behind which they have barricaded themselves and others.