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The First Free Elections to the Volkskammer, in the Outskirts of Berlin, January to March 1990: Poster, "Green! Red!" [151/207]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

January 1 - March 31 1990
Berlin and vicinity
Created By: Ralf Skiba

License: Creative Commons License

"Grün! Rot!" ("Green! Red!"). Offset lithography (81 x 57.4cm) featuring a rabbit flag, one of the actions carried out by the graphic artist Manfred Butzmann, who argued the case for painting the East side of the Berlin Wall at the general meeting of the Verbandes Bildender Künstler der DDR des Bezirks Berlin (Association of Visual artists in the GDR, Berlin vicinity) on 16 November 1989 (Eugen Blume (Publ.): Butzmanns Heimatkunde in 24 Abteilungen, Berlin 1992, pg.110-114)

Depicts

animal, art event, banner (flag), graphic art, poster

Context

Volkskammer election

People/Organizations

Butzmann, Manfred

Places

Other places (Berlin)

Text in image

Grün! / Rot!

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Memory

"I was born in Berlin and watched the Wall being built from my classroom in the district of Wedding. I found it quite remarkable that the GDR, the German 'Democratic!' Republic, held its first democratic elections on 18 March 1990 only to dissolve itself shortly afterwards. In the run-up to the election, I spent nearly every weekend from January to March 1990 touring the area around Berlin with my family, and taking photographs of the election campaign, posters, and everything else that had to do with the elections."

Ralf Skiba (West Berlin)