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Exhibition theme: The Border Opens: "Ein grenzenloses Wochenende" ("A Borderless Weekend"), excerpt [86/87]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

November 11 1989
Eschwege, Marktstraße and vicinity
Duration: 00:16:29 min.
Created By: Günter Schneider

License: Creative Commons License

Excerpt from a video documentary charting the first visit by citizens of East Germany to the West German town of Eschwege on the weekend following the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

Many GDR citizens visit the town, resulting in long queues at the border crossing and at various "Welcome Money" payout points. The filmmakers document the large crowds in the city center and record interviews with East Germans and the Mayor of Eschwege, Jürgen Zick.

Depicts

banana, bank, child, cigarette, city hall, crowd, fire service, food, helmet, identity document, journey, joy, logo, mayor, parking spot, pavement, plastic bag, press, the, queue, shopping, supermarket, Trabant (car), traffic, vehicle registration mark, warehousing, welcome gift, welcome money, youth

Context

camp, fall of the Berlin Wall, freedom of travel, inner German border

People/Organizations

International Red Cross

Places

Eschwege

Text in image

Ein / grenzenloses / Wochenende / November / 1989 / Ein Film von / Jochen und Günter / Schneider

Erschwege / ...ist Klasse!

Ortsgericht

Amt des / Schiedsmanns

Top / Angebot / Auswahl gut / Qualität stimmt / der Preis entscheidet / -10.-

Kasse

Woolworth / Amerika – Erlebnis – Reisen

Adidas

Persil

Plus

Wir verkaufen an / DDR-Bürger / Einzelteile Kurs 1:1

Der Verkaufslös / wird kirchlichen / DDR Kindergärten / gespendet

Jedes / Computer / Magazin / 3,- / Ost- / Mark

Festlich gedeckt

Kamera: / Jochen Schneider / Videobearbeitung: / Günter Schneider

© 1989/2005

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Almost everyone knows to this day where he or she was on 9 November 1989. The joy at being suddenly granted the freedom to travel, also to West Germany, was immense. Each time a new border crossing was opened, people celebrated. In the same way, the removal of segments of the Wall and of border fence, as well as the reconstruction of roads between East and West became important events. Countless photographs and films taken in Berlin and at the inner-German border document these incidents as they occurred – thus preserving the good fortune of experiencing everything live for the family album.