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Berg der Erinnerung / Mount of Remembrance

Conversation twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
The Wende generation in East Berlin
DVD 45 min 2009


Camera: Julia Vogel
Editing: Melanie Lischker
Sound: Roman Schorbach
Directed by Johannes Kochs
Production: shorefilm

Sponsored by the Kunst- und Kulturamt, Bezirksamt Lichtenberg von Berlin, Museum Lichtenberg im Stadthaus 2009



The fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago was an incomparable experience for all generations and a profound turning point in the personal lives of many.
As part of “Der Berg der Erinnerung”—a series of conversations, open to all, organized by the Museum Lichtenberg and inaugurated in May 2009 with a discussion with employees of industries once located in Lichtenberg—November 1, 2009, was the occasion for another retrospective look at history.

In this event, optimism and change before and after 1989 in the Lichtenberg and Hohenschönhausen districts of Berlin were discussed. How did individuals experience the day-to-day, their jobs, and what characterized the years that followed?