Talk: Symbols of freedom – A generational dialogue, 12:00-12:20
Mita Schamal interviewed by Luzie Astforth
Young journalists interview eyewitnesses to historical events and explore what freedom means to different generations – guided by personal objects that tell a story.
Luzie Astforth studiert Innenarchitektur an der Hochschule für Technik in Stuttgart. Sie ist als freie Journalistin tätig und befragt für das 35-jährige Mauerfall-Jubiläum Mita Schamal, Yadegar Asisi und Katrin Hattenauer zu ihren individuellen Perspektiven zum Thema Freiheit.
Luzie Astforth is studying interior design at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences. She works as a freelance journalist and will be interviewing Mita Schamal, Yadegar Asisi and Katrin Hattenauer about their individual perspectives on freedom for the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Mita Schamal, geboren 1966 in Berlin, ist die ehemalige Schlagzeugerin der 1983 verhafteten Ost-Punkband „Namenlos“. Sie ist heute in Berlin als bildende Künstlerin tätig.
In Kooperation mit dem Museum für Werte
Mita Schamal, born in Berlin in 1966, is the former drummer of the East German punk band Namenlos, whose members were arrested in 1983. She now works as a visual artist in Berlin.
Talk: Symbols of freedom – A generational dialogue, 12:40 – 13:00
Katrin Hattenhauer interviewed by Luzie Astforth
Katrin Hattenhauer, born in Nordhausen in 1968, is an artist and civil rights activist. On 4 September 1989, she demonstrated “For an open country with free people”, whereupon she was arrested. This protest is considered the beginning of the Leipzig Monday demonstrations. Hattenhauer received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2015.
Talk: Symbols of freedom – A generational dialogue, 13:20 – 13:40
Yadegar Asisi interviewed by Luzie Astforth
Yadegar Asisi, born in Vienna in 1955, grew up in Halle/Saale and Leipzig and studied architecture in Dresden. After studying painting in West Berlin, he discovered the panorama as an artistic medium in 1993 and ever since has been developing highly detailed panoramic images focusing on art history and socially relevant themes.
Talk: One of 140 – Peter Fechter and the commemoration of those who died at the Berlin Wall, 14:00 – 14:20
Dr Sarah Bornhorst and Dr Bjoern Weigel in conversation
At least 140 people died at the Berlin Wall between 1961 and 1989. One was Peter Fechter, who was shot at the Wall near Checkpoint Charlie in 1962 and left to bleed out in the border strip, or “Death Strip”. Dr Bjoern Weigel speaks with Dr Sarah Bornhorst about his fate and in commemoration of him and the other victims of the Berlin Wall.
Dr Sarah Bornhorst is a historian and curator for historical eyewitness accounts and oral history at the Berlin Wall Foundation. Dr Bjoern Weigel is a historian and the research director for exhibitions and events at Kulturprojekte Berlin.
Talk: What will become of Checkpoint Charlie?, 14:40 – 15:00
Markus Meckel and Florentine Schmidtmann in conversation
Soviet and American tanks once stood face-to-face at the Checkpoint Charlie border crossing. Verein Zentrum Kalter Krieg e.V. has been campaigning for years to establish a Cold War museum at this important place of remembrance, which would highlight the international dimensions of the conflict.
Markus Meckel, a theologian and opposition activist, became Foreign Minister of the GDR after the first free elections in 1990 and took part in the ceremony to mark the dismantling of the border post at Checkpoint Charlie. The former member of the Bundestag is a founding member of the association Zentrum Kalter Krieg e.V.
Florentine Schmidtmann is a GDR historian and works as head of special exhibitions at the Brandenburg Museum for Future, Present and History in Potsdam. She is a member of Verein Zentrum Kalter Krieg e.V.
In cooperation with Verein Zentrum Kalter Krieg e.V.
Talk: Symbols of freedom – A generational dialogue, 15:20 – 15:40
Gabriele Stötzer interviewed by Lina Eikelmann
Young journalists interview historical eyewitnesses and explore what freedom means to different generations – guided by personal objects that tell a story.
Lina Eikelmann is a journalist and a communications student at the Berlin University of the Arts. To mark the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, she speaks with Gabriele Stötzer, Ulli Zelle and Dimitri Hegemann about their personal symbols of freedom.
Gabriele Stötzer, born in Thuringia, East Germany, in 1953, is an artist and writer. In the resistance struggle against the GDR regime, her feminist works became a site of the fight for freedom, which she paid for with a prison sentence and constant Stasi intimidation. She continues to fight on today.
Talk: Symbols of freedom – A generational dialogue, 16:00 – 16:20
Ulli Zelle interviewed by Lina Eikelmann
Ulli Zelle, born in Lower Saxony, West Germany, in 1951, came to West Berlin in the 1970s to experience the “great freedom”. Starting out with just a cassette recorder and microphone in his bag, he became a roving reporter for SFB, later RBB. On the evening of 9 November 1989, Zelle was one of the first journalists to report from the Berlin Wall at Bornholmer Strasse.
Talk: Symbols of freedom – A generational dialogue, 16:40 – 17:00
Dimitri Hegemann interviewed by Lina Eikelmann
Dimitri Hegemann, born in 1954 in North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, is a creative artist and Berlin techno pioneer. Since the 1991 opening of his legendary Tresor club, a steel bank vault along the former Death Strip between West and East Berlin, he has been laying visionary groundwork for the club and Berlin’s cultural scene to this day.
Musik: Bürgermeister Trio and guests, 17:20 – 17:50
NeueDeutscheJazz*Welle featuring Tino Derado (piano), Sören Fischer (trombone) and Alfred Mehnert (aka Bürgermeister; percussion/presentation)
Special guest: Komi Mizajim Togbonou (Deutsches Theater)
Alfred Mehnert began his musical career at a time of upheaval marked by the monumental political changes surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall. This period of change fostered a new kind of cultural freedom and musical openness, which he now injects into Berlin projects such as the “Bürgermeister Trio”. Inspired by the upheaval and new cultural networking between East and West, Mehnert has since united different musicians and musical styles such as jazz and funk and created interactive concert formats. His trio captures the energy of the years following the fall of the Berlin Wall by making musically tangible the versatility and openness of this era.
Musik: Berliner Kneipenchor, 18:30 – 19:00
From Hasselhoff to “1000 und 1 Nacht” – a concert with songs that are looking for freedom
The BERLINER KNEIPENCHOR is a choir made up of girls and boys, women and men, journalists and doctors, art students and managers, DJs and ordinary people. They meet in pubs, drink and sing songs by Peter Fox, Grönemeyer, Britney Spears and, on this special day, by artists we simply need to hear on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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