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The First Free Elections to the Volkskammer, in the Outskirts of Berlin, January to March 1990: Bündnis 90 poster, "Straight Ahead" [112/207]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

January 1 - March 31 1990
Berlin and vicinity
Created By: Ralf Skiba

License: Creative Commons License

"Nicht Rechts. Nicht Links. Geradeaus nach Europa!" (Not right, not left, straight ahead towards Europe!") A torn election poster for Bündnis 90 (Alliance 90), an alliance of the citizens' movements: Neues Forum, Demokratie Jetzt and the Initiative Freiheit und Menschenrechte. Poster features the candidates of the five states and Berlin (however the election area was divided according to the 15 GDR districts)

Depicts

damaged poster, election poster, logo, motto, photography, portrait

Context

election campaign, Volkskammer election

People/Organizations

Alliance 90

Places

Other places (Berlin)

Text in image

Bündnis 90 / Bürger für Bürger / Für Brandenburg [...] / [Für Sachsen] [...] / [Für Thüringen] [...] / Für Sachsen-Anhalt [...] / Für Mecklenburg [...] / Für Berlin [...] / Nicht Rechts. Nicht Links. / Geradeaus / nach / Europa! / Entscheiden Sie sich am 18. März / für Ihre Rechte als Bürger! / Bündnis 90 / Bürger für Bürger / Neues Forum / Demokratie jetzt / Initiative Frieden und / Menschenrechte

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Memory

"I was born in Berlin and watched the Wall being built from my classroom in the district of Wedding. I found it quite remarkable that the GDR, the German 'Democratic!' Republic, held its first democratic elections on 18 March 1990 only to dissolve itself shortly afterwards. In the run-up to the election, I spent nearly every weekend from January to March 1990 touring the area around Berlin with my family, and taking photographs of the election campaign, posters, and everything else that had to do with the elections."

Ralf Skiba (West Berlin)