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Surviving segments of the Wall vs. property development projects: a view of the banks of the Spree

Urban planning
After the Wall: Berlin’s Urban Planning Dilemma

Modern-day development projects vs. trailer parks and teepees: where the Wall once divided Berlin in half, the city's housing culture is now torn between memory and modernity, nostalgia and progress.

Expert in contemporary German history: Rainer Eckert.

Photo (detail): © Forum of Contemporary History Leipzig

German Reunification
“There is a pool of shared memories”

How was the division of Germany experienced, and how far has the process of reunification progressed so far? An interview with Rainer Eckert, director of the Forum of Contemporary History Leipzig.

Fragment of the Berlin Wall in front of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, USA;

Photo (detail): © John Martorano/Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

Berlin Wall around the World
A Symbol of Freedom

All around the world, segments of the Berlin Wall serve as reminders of the time when Germany was still divided. Anna Kaminsky talks about researching her book “Where in the World is the Berlin Wall?”.

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Traces of Resistance

a Flaneur project by Fabian Saul

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Freiraum deals with the concept of freedom, which has been of fundamental relevance to European cultural history and European self-understanding ever since the Enlightenment.

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Book Launch: Modern Religous Architecture in Germany, Ireland and Beyond

Music, films, books, art and more: Culture Night im Goethe-Institut 2019

Exhibition: Padraig Cunningham: With-Hold

Performative Lecture: Traces of Resistance

As part of the Dublin Festival of History 2019: The Berlin Wall in German Cinema

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Urban planning
After the Wall: Berlin’s Urban Planning Dilemma

German Reunification
“There is a pool of shared memories”

Berlin Wall around the World
A Symbol of Freedom

ProjectsTopics and Projects of Goethe-Institut in Ireland

Deutschmobil 2019/2020

Traces of Resistance

Freiraum

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Book Launch: Modern Religous Architecture in Germany, Ireland and Beyond

Music, films, books, art and more: Culture Night im Goethe-Institut 2019

Exhibition: Padraig Cunningham: With-Hold

Performative Lecture: Traces of Resistance

As part of the Dublin Festival of History 2019: The Berlin Wall in German Cinema

Urban planning After the Wall: Berlin’s Urban Planning Dilemma

German Reunification “There is a pool of shared memories”

Berlin Wall around the World A Symbol of Freedom

Deutschmobil 2019/2020

Traces of Resistance

Freiraum

Urban planning
After the Wall: Berlin’s Urban Planning Dilemma

German Reunification
“There is a pool of shared memories”

Berlin Wall around the World
A Symbol of Freedom