"During the time of the GDR, the thought of ever sitting on the Wall was almost unimaginable. But then it suddenly happened in 1989. These were the large fragments of the Berlin Wall that I sat on.
I once took part in the Monday demonstrations in Leipzig. Simply out of curiosity. I had never thought it possible that everything that shaped my life could collapse like a house of cards in the space of just a couple of months.
I was 34 at the time of the "Wende". And I was left with the vestiges of my former life. Everything fell apart. Even for me, professionally, socially.
Later the Wall fragments were demolished and formed the foundation for something new.
Twenty years on, I can say I belong to those who were able to make something out of this change. And if the "Wall Cemetery" were to still exist in the large compound in the Wollankstraße, I would for sure want to go and sit there again."
Wilfried Fiedler
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