AboutPrivacyLogin/RegisterDeutsch

Exhibition theme: The Transformation of the GDR: Campaign event for the Freie Wählergemeinschaft [36/39]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

March 21 - June 21 1990
Gotha, Hauptmarkt (northern part)
Created By: Dieter Lauterbach

License: Not Creative Commons

From the Set

Election of the People's Chamber on 18 March 1990

Campaign event for the Freie Wählergemeinschaft with the Augustiner Jazz Band in front of Gotha town hall

Depicts

city hall, concert, election poster, group of people, handmade medium, man, micro, musical instrument, musician, pavement, town square

Context

election campaign, Volkskammer election

Places

Gotha

Text in image

Gotha's FGW / Freie / Wählergemeinschaft

[Yama]ha / Portatone / PSR 2500

Other items in this set

Shortly after the border was opened, changes were pushed through in the GDR. The most conspicuous came about during the campaign for the Volkskammer election in March 1990, when countless election posters, often with commentaries, became a popular motif for photographers. Important, too, was the presence of leading West German politicians at election meetings in all of the larger towns in East Germany – not to mention the elections themselves. The currency union, which came about on 1 July 1990, put Western goods in shops at standard prices. This was a first step in bringing the East closer to the West.