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Image : Images on eastern Germany: football, borders and memories (12 photos)

Images on eastern Germany: football, borders and memories (12 photos)

FOCUS berlin wall : Berlin film festival: 60 years of masterpieces

Berlin film festival: 60 years of masterpieces

The Berlin international film festival (or Berlinale) has been fraught with political struggles. Created by the allies of west Berlin right under the noses of communist dictators, it was a way of opening a window to the 'free' world. Over the years, it has developed into an unmissable world cinema event

by Sergio Marx @ // 15/02/10 - 1 vote

berlin wall, cinema, cold war, berlin, jean-luc godard, nouvelle vague, rainer werner fassbinder

'Wall and Borders': 83 directors, 70 episodes, 1 Berlin concept movie See the video

- Video 'Wall and Borders': 83 directors, 70 episodes, 1 Berlin concept movie

16/11/09

berlin wall, germany, video, director, psychiatry, borders, turin

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Image : Live from the night: celebrating 20 years of the wall in Berlin (10 images)

Live from the night: celebrating 20 years of the wall in Berlin (10 images)

REVIEW berlin wall : European bloggers describe their Berlin walls

European bloggers describe their Berlin walls

Monday is 9 November, the day when the Berlin wall was brought down. To reflect on this iconic modern historical event for the eurogeneration, citizen journalists from five cafebabel.com local teams - Sofia, Budapest, Turin, Strasbourg and Istanbul - simultaneously blogged one day about the walls they see in their cities

by Nabeelah Shabbir @ // 06/11/09 - 1 Comment

berlin wall, germany, communism, event, architecture, budapest, blogs

Picture that: it's only been 20 years since the Berlin wall fell

Picture that: it's only been 20 years since the Berlin wall fell

For its twentieth anniversary Europe will euphorically celebrate the fall of a wall that didn’t just split Berlin in two, but an entire continent. At 6:57 pm on 9 November, the GDR's Politbüro member Günter Schabowski announced that from now, east German citizens could travel freely. Hours later, Berliners were hugging each other from the east to the west. Another 20 years later, and the eurogeneration have made their motto out of this freedom of movement - eastern working girls invade Europe’s labour market, symbolic walls come to a fall in Paris, or exist in people’s heads. Does the spoiled post-89 generation know how lucky they are? Perspectives

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Image : 'My dad could've been a famous international bodybuilder' - Berliners on the wall

'My dad could've been a famous international bodybuilder' - Berliners on the wall

PANORAMA berlin wall : It's like talking to a Berlin wall

It's like talking to a Berlin wall

140 kilometres of wall crumbled in 1989 and hundreds of European expressions arose as it fell. The idiom of the week is flavoured by the 9 November event

by Jane Mery @ // 04/11/09 - 2 Comment

berlin wall, tower of babel, germany, cold war, iron curtain, languages, berlin

FOCUS berlin wall : Berlin craze: tourists shun sights for ‘Kiez’ experience

Berlin craze: tourists shun sights for ‘Kiez’ experience

The metropolis attracts more visitors than any other German city with almost 18 million overnight stays in 2008. But tourism is no longer about taking in the typical sights: tourists are now taking over ‘Kiez’ (city neighbourhoods) and bikes which, until now, were exclusively secrets for the capital’s residents

by Helen Zebuhr @ // 19/10/09 - 10 Comment

berlin wall, germany, berlin, tourism, biking

FOCUS berlin wall : An East German childhood: ‘People took off their clothes to express their freedom’

An East German childhood: ‘People took off their clothes to express their freedom’

West Germans often subscribe to a pretty grim idea of life growing up behind the wall in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Yet although East German children had few toys and less holidays, were they really less happy than their western counterparts? Eik, 29, recalls his Soviet upbringing

by Bruno van den Elshout @ // 17/08/09 - 2 Comment

berlin wall, school system, germany, school, gdr, childhood, eastern germany

FEATURE berlin wall : Soviet nostalgia: Russian drink, bunker parties and film in Vilnius

Soviet nostalgia: Russian drink, bunker parties and film in Vilnius

Twenty years after the Iron Curtain, the Baltic tiger is experiencing a bout of nostalgia. A young, trendy generation, fed up of hearing about the past, is looking back at a not-quite-so ‘carefree’ childhood under the soviet regime

by Katharina Kloss @ // 25/06/09 - 3 Comment - 1 vote

berlin wall, good bye lenin, giedrė beinoriūtė, marius ivaškevičius, lenin, reunification, cold war

OPINION berlin wall : 2 days in Warsaw: Solidarnosc, cult Polish documentaries and Berlusconi

2 days in Warsaw: Solidarnosc, cult Polish documentaries and Berlusconi

For two days at the end of April 2009, the Polish capital becomes the 'centre of Europe' as the EU's largest centre-right party descend on the city. Quality time spent between British, Spanish and Polish colleagues raises an understanding of what the last twenty years mean, and the gap between east and west. Opinion

by Natalia Sosin @ // 16/06/09 - 1 Comment

berlin wall, cinema, protest, director, divorce, communism, poland

INTERVIEW berlin wall : Alison Smale: 'by learning languages I could escape the boring life I had been living as a child in England'

Alison Smale: 'by learning languages I could escape the boring life I had been living as a child in England'

The former German and Politics student at Bristol university is the first woman to lead the Paris-based International Herald Tribune. The multilingual managing editor talks European elections, languages and journalism

by Lidia Falcucci @ // 11/06/09 - 6 Comment

berlin wall, paris, copenhagen, stampa, barack obama, journalism, freedom of expression

20 years: fly on the Berlin wall

20 years: fly on the Berlin wall

9 November 1989. The Berlin wall comes down, freeing the democratic motorways between the countries of the former Warsaw pact. Two decades on, many of these countries are in the European Union, tested in the climate of east-west precarity brought on by the economic crisis. In this edition: focus on those who were born after history was made, those who escaped that history and those who are staging it today on the floorboards in London and Berlin

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Not so long ago, a wall separated us

A map of reconciliation Maria-Cristina Necula Writer My father made Europe’s acquaintance while trying to escape its Eastern grasp. As a top microprocessor specialist and associate professor at the Bucharest Polytechnic University, he was allowed an outing beyond the Iron Curtain at a workshop in London in January 1985 ...

Europe à la Carte by Europe à la Carte on europealacarte

My Berlin Wall

It has been 20 year ago when the Berlin Wall has fallen down, but still, there are some places all around Europe where we might witness that classes of society, buildings or some parts of the city are separated from each other. They are rather symbolic walls, but to break ...

Albino Blacksheep by Albino Blacksheep on budapest