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A journey to the GDR, summer 1990: Poster wall [1/109]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

March 18 1990
Berlin and vicinity
Created By: Dagmar Lipper

License: Creative Commons License

Depicts

advertising poster, billboard, election poster, graphic art, logo, motto, national colours, photography, portrait, poster pasted over, state coat of arms, traffic sign, workers

Context

Volkskammer election

People/Organizations

Alliance 90, German Social Democratic Party, German Social Union (East Germany), Hans Modrow, National Democratic Party of Germany, Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany), Rauls, Wolfgang

Places

Other places (Berlin)

Text in image

Installations-Service / Das-Wasserinstallationen / Rohrausfräsung / Kurt Grawert / Breitscheidstr. 29

NDPD

Bündnis 90

Nie wieder / Sozialismus / Ja! / Freiheit und / Wohlstand / Allianz für Deutschland / DA DSU CDU

DSU / Deutsche Soziale Union [2x]

Mit denen, / die nach / vorne / schaun. / [...] / lieber rot / als farblos / Alternative [...] [3x]

Freiheit / Gleichheit / Brüderlichkeit / und soziale / Sicherheit / PDS / progressiv, produktiv, pro DDR [2x]

Unsere Herzen / [...] / Für die deutsche Zukunft! / wählt / NDPD

SED+CDU: / Partner seit 1949 / Die / ehrliche / Alternative / wählen / SPD [3x]

Eine bessere / Zukunft / muss man nicht / nur wollen, / sondern auch / wählen. / SPD [2x]

Wolfgang Rauls / [F]ür die deutsche Zukunft! / wählt / NDPD

Partei des / Demokratischen / Sozialismus / PDS [18x]

Für die / Schwachen / eine starke / Opposition / PDS [...]

Einer von uns / Hans Modrow / [...] PDS

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Memory

"In the summer of 1990, fresh out of college with a degree in photography, I set off for the GDR. At first, everything I saw was the way I expected it to be: prefab housing, dying forests, huge industrial complexes in Bitterfeld, remnants of the Wall in Berlin, and Trabis. Aldi supermarkets were there already, too. It all just confirmed what I had suspected.

At the same time, it felt like travelling back in time, especially in the countryside and villages. There were roads lined with wild flowers, rustic gardens, and village streets like I remembered from my childhood but now so rare in the West. I find the term “home” very elusive, but in these August days in the GDR, I often had a homey feeling, and a sense of belonging, yet this also included a certain distance, as if I were looking in from outside.

After the summer I returned to France and put away the negatives; I didn’t even make contact prints of most of them. Indeed, that’s why I’m seeing or literally discovering these pictures for the first time today."

Brigitte Bauer (Arles, Frankreich)

Original Caption

"I don't think there's any need to add anything here."