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Exhibition theme: The Border Opens: Celebrating with sparklers [18/87]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 10 1989
Berlin, Brandenburg Gate
Created By: Monika Waack

License: Creative Commons License

From the Set

At the Brandenburg Gate, 10 November 1989

Depicts

group of people, joy, night, sparkler

Context

Berlin Wall (West), Berlin Wall woodpecker, birthday, crowd, fall of the Berlin Wall, friend, inn, joy, metro, sparkler, sparkling wine, street

Places

Anhalter Bahnhof, Brandenburg Gate, Kurfuerstendamm, Potsdamer Platz

Other items in this set

Almost everyone knows to this day where he or she was on 9 November 1989. The joy at being suddenly granted the freedom to travel, also to West Germany, was immense. Each time a new border crossing was opened, people celebrated. In the same way, the removal of segments of the Wall and of border fence, as well as the reconstruction of roads between East and West became important events. Countless photographs and films taken in Berlin and at the inner-German border document these incidents as they occurred – thus preserving the good fortune of experiencing everything live for the family album.