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Exhibition theme: The Border Opens: Camera crew at work [27/87]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 11 1989
Berlin, Eberswalder Straße/Bernauer Straße border crossing
Created By: Peter R. Asche

License: Creative Commons License

A camera team on Bernauer Strasse, where a new border crossing was installed on 11 November, 1989.

Depicts

barrier grid, camera crew, group of people, micro, opening of the border, television camera

Context

fall of the Berlin Wall

Places

Eberswalder Straße (Prenzlauer Berg)/Bernauer Straße (Wedding) border crossing, Other places (Berlin)

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.