Exhibition theme: Protest and Flight: Solidarity event for the victims in Peking at the Erlöserkirche in Rummelsburg [40/56]
OBJECT INFORMATION
Info
June 1989
Berlin, Erlöserkirche
Created By:
Siegbert Schefke, Quelle: Robert-Havemann-GesellschaftLicense: Not Creative Commons
Solidarity event for the victims in Peking at the Erlöserkirche in Berlin-Rummelsburg, on the left a banner with the inscription "民主" (the Chinese symbols 民主, in Pinyu transliteration "mín zhŭ", mean "democracy")
Depicts
banderole,
bicycle,
camera,
child,
cross,
group of people,
pavement,
showcasePlaces
Church of the Redeemer (Berlin-Rummelsburg)Text in image
Klagetrommel / Trommelfasten / Wir trauern um die Opfer / der Gewalt in China
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.
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