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The First Free Elections to the Volkskammer, in the Outskirts of Berlin, January to March 1990: Bündnis 90 poster with PDS sticker [163/207]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

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

License: Creative Commons License

From the Set

Election of the People's Chamber on 18 March 1990

"Wer bei Honecker BLOCKflöte gelernt hat, kann in keiner Demokratie die erste Geige spielen!" ("Those who learnt to play the recorder under Honecker cannot play the lead violin in any democracy!"). An election poster for Bündnis 90 (Alliance 90, comprising the citizen's movements: Bürgerbewegungen Neues Forum, Demokratie Jetzt and der Initiative Frieden und Menschenrechte) behind a pane of glass upon which a handmade PDS sticker has been stuck claiming "Lieber ein Glas Gorbatschow als ein Topf voller KOHL-Suppe" (Better a glass of Gorbatschow (vodka) than a pot full of (Helmut) Kohl soup (cabbage soup)")

Depicts

election poster, motto, satire

Context

election campaign, Volkskammer election

People/Organizations

Alliance 90, Erich Honecker, Kohl, Helmut Josef Michael, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany)

Places

Other places (Berlin)

Text in image

Wer bei / Honecker / Blockflöte / gelernt hat, / kann in keiner / Demokratie / die erste Geige / spielen! / Bündnis 90 / Bürger für Bürger / Neues Forum / Demokratie Jetzt / Initiative Frieden und / Menschenrechte

Lieber ein Glas / Gorbatschow / als ein / Topf voller / Kohl-Suppe / ! / PDS

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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)