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German Unity Day, Berlin, 3 October 1990: Wall graffiti "GDR, born 7.10.49, died 3.10.90" [6/23]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

October 1990
Berlin, Mühlenstraße
Created By: Dagmar Lipper

License: Creative Commons License

From the Set

Exhibition theme: German Unification

Wall slogan on the rear side of the 1.3km long East Side Gallery in Berlin-Friedrichshain

Depicts

Berlin Wall graffiti (writing), cross, East-Side Gallery, Wall graffiti

Context

3 October, East-Side Gallery, farewell, friend, public holiday, scepticism, unemployment

Places

East-Side Gallery, Red Town Hall, Reichstag building

Text in image

DDR / [geb.] 7.10.49 / [gest.] 3.10.90

Bitte nicht / mehr hier / hämmern! / Please don't / hammer here / anymore!

Other items in this set

Memory

"On this very first German Unity Day, we went and looked at various sites of historical importance, such as the Reichstag and the Rotes Rathaus [Berlin’s town hall], and – in complete contrast - the East Side Gallery [a stretch of the Wall covered by paintings] in Friedrichshain. Not everyone was in the mood for celebrating that day. Friends of ours from East Germany were in the process of saying a final goodbye to their state. And we were not so sure, either, whether this was really a holiday to celebrate, because we suspected that unification would not be easy, as so many jobs were disappearing in the East."

Dagmar Lipper (West-Berlin)