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On the way to the Brandenburg Gate, 10 November 1989: In front of the Wall at Brandenburg Gate [16/16]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 10 1989
Berlin, Brandenburg Gate
Created By: Jürgen Lottenburger

License: Creative Commons License

A crowd gathered by the West side of the Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate; a press box and the Reichstag in the background

Depicts

barrier grid, Berlin Wall (West), car, crowd, German flag, observation deck, state coat of arms

Context

crowd, fall of the Berlin Wall, mural crown, November 9, 1989, sparkling wine, television

People/Organizations

Günter Schabowski , police (FRG), Walter Momper, Willy Brandt

Places

17th June Street, Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag building

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Memory

"In the evening of 9 November, I watched Günter Schabowski on television informing us about the new travel regulations – but then went to bed. The next morning I was very surprised to hear the news about the fall of the Wall on the television and radio. I quickly rushed to work where my colleagues and I celebrated this remarkable moment with a bottle of sparkling wine. Then I went down the Straße des 17. Juni to the Brandenburg Gate. There, I could see Willy Brandt and the West Berlin mayor, Walter Momper, right up close. They were heading the same way. When we got to the Brandenburg Gate, hundreds of West Berliners had already scaled the Wall capstone. The crowd chanted, "Willy on the Wall!" – an invitation which he however declined in a very statesmanlike manner and mentioned instead the meeting that was to be held that evening outside the town hall in Schöneberg."

Jürgen Lottenburger (West Berlin)