The celebrations for the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Wall are over. Some of the contents of the video cubes can still be watched online:
35 Jahre Mauerfall | Bundesregierung
Deutsche Einheit | Bundesregierung
Mauerstücke – Fragments of the Wall by Marc Bauder at Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
” ‘We are the people!’
In autumn 1989, these words rang out loud and clear in Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin and many other towns and cities in East Germany.
On 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall was brought down by the people.
It was a day that changed the world.
The courageous citizens of the GDR changed the world.”
Olaf Scholz
German Chancellor
35th anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution – Let’s celebrate freedom and democracy together!
The Federal Government is also celebrating the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Above all, it is honouring the people of East Germany, whose courage and non-violent quest for freedom made history 35 years ago.
The events of 1989/90 are being commemorated on four Video Cubes set up along the event route.
The Video Cubes created by the Federal Government will be in operation all day long on 8 and 9 November 2024.
Video Cube locations
- Niederkirchnerstraße
- Ebertstraße (opposite the Holocaust Memorial)
- Kapelle Ufer (in front of the Futurium)
- Pariser Platz: This Video Cube will also be in operation on 10 November 2024.
What can visitors expect to see?
Fascinating images and footage covering the era that started with the construction of the Berlin Wall on 13 August 1961 and came to an end with the fall of the Wall on 9 November 1989: these words and images went down in history.
Walls disappear, words remain: Video: 35th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall | Federal Government
German unity: German Unity | Federal Government
Mauerstücke – Fragments of the Wall, Mauerflug – A bird’s eye view of the Wall, Mauertote – Lives lost at the Wall – A film trilogy by Marc Bauder
Mauerstücke, Mauerflug and Mauertote: produced in cooperation by bauderfilm and Kulturprojekte, the cubes show th trilogy of the fall of the Berlin Wall by the famous Berlin film maker Marc Bauder.
The award-winning film Mauerstücke – Fragments of the Wall is an extraordinary chronicle of the division of Berlin that moves through time as if in a fast-forward motion. A collage of well-known historical footage mixed with rare archival images and sound recordings, the film extends from the time the Wall was built all the way to its fall in 1989. The film showcases familiar material, including the following: Walter Ulbricht’s statement that “nobody has any intention of building a wall”; images of the Wall being built on Bernauer Straße and at the Brandenburg Gate; the famous escape of a GDR border guard by jumping over the fence; Soviet and US tanks driving up at Checkpoint Charlie; Kennedy’s “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech; footage of the escape of GDR citizens over the Spree River; images of GDR citizens at the fence of the German embassy in Prague and crossing the Hungarian-Austrian border; excerpts from speeches by Helmut Kohl, Erich Honecker, Michael Gorbachev, Helmut Schmidt, Willy Brandt and Stefan Heym: and Günter Schabowski’s legendary press conference on 9 November 1989. The film also features some lesser-known yet spectacular moving images, including footage taken immediately before the opening of the border crossing at Bornholmer Straße showing GDR citizens calling on the border guards to let them through.
Mauerflug – Fragments of the Wall is a film collage that provides a remarkable bird’s eye view of the divided city of Berlin, conveying the oppressive presence of the Wall as it weaves its way through the city. Mauertote – Lives lost at the Wall commemorates the people who died trying to escape from the GDR.
The films effectively convey the spirit of this period of German division, illustrating the brutality of the GDR regime and the often dramatic confrontation between East and West. The films also make it clear that the events of 9 November 1989 were no coincidence but rather the direct consequence of the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR.
© 2014 bauderfilm and Kulturprojekte Berlin
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