Photographs of the Berlin Wall 1979 to the present day by Gottfried Schenk
The exhibition shows the various historical stations of the Berlin Wall in the form of a photographic narrative. With the fall of the Wall, it changed from a place of suffering to a place of wonder and is now a place of remembrance.
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Gottfried Schenk
When people danced on the Wall at the Brandenburg Gate on the night of November 9, 1989 and the images went around the world, it was clear that the division of the city was history. In less than a year, the seemingly impossible became possible: the removal of the GDR Politburo from power, the first free elections in the GDR, economic and monetary union and finally the reunification of the two German states on October 3, 1990.
Berlin-based photographer Gottfried Schenk accompanied the historical stages of the Berlin Wall with his camera and documented the progressive dismantling of the Berlin Wall. These are the metamorphoses of a structure that consisted of more than 40,000 Wall segments, 186 observation towers and 31 guide points over a length of 161 kilometers.
Free admission
(TOUR IN GERMAN)
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Dates
January 2025
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