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The First Free Elections to the Volkskammer, in the Outskirts of Berlin, January to March 1990: View inside the former border strip in Stresemannstraße [1/207]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

February 2 1990
Berlin, Stresemannstraße/Niederkirchnerstraße
Created By: Michael Westdickenberg

License: Not Creative Commons

From the Set

Impressions of Spring 1990

Depicts

Berlin Wall (East), Berlin Wall (West), Berlin Wall woodpecker, border patrol road, border strip, chisel traces, inner-Eastern Wall, man, one person, Wall graffiti, watchtower

Context

civil rights movement, Coca-Cola, contract worker, deterioration, election campaign, freedom of speech, friend, German Mark, German reunification, journey, panel building, pollution, social market economy, Volkskammer election, We are one people!

Places

Dessau, Halle (Saale), Leipzig, Niederkirchnerstrasse, Stresemannstraße

Text in image

[Susi] aus Wien + Frank aus Berlin

Heinz + Holger

Sven + Tom + [...]

The

Shopping

Friede[n]

Other items in this set

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)