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Exhibition theme: Protest and Flight: Concert featuring East Berlin band "Rockhaus" [41/56]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

September 16 1989
Dillingen a.d.Donau, Hubertusstraße
Created By: Hubert Götz

License: Creative Commons License

From the Set

Berliner Rock night in the Schretzheim community centre, 16 September 1989

From the Set

Youth 1989/90
Portraits

Mike Kilian, bandleader and singer of the East Berlin band "Rockhaus", during the "Berliner Rocknacht" concert at Schretzheim multi-purpose hall

Depicts

concert, man, micro, musician, one person

Context

concert, crowd, resettler

Places

Dillingen a. d. Donau

Other items in this set

Ultimately, it was the citizens of the GDR themselves who brought down the SED regime. From the summer of 1989 on, thousands of East Germans tried to flee to the West across the Hungarian-Austrian border and via the West German embassies in Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw. In East Germany itself, ever greater numbers of people supported the demands of the citizens' movements for free elections, freedom of the press, and freedom to travel, despite their fear of state repression. In October, mass protests, which now involved hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, spread across the entire country. Aware that their protest could no longer be stopped, people increasingly felt a desire to capture events on film.