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Exhibition theme: A Semblance of Normalcy: A vacated flat in a building due for demolition [5/19]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

March 31 1989
Berlin, Lychener Str. 6, rear building
Created By: Merit Schambach

License: Creative Commons License

Depicts

alcohol, apartment, Beer, litter, sparkling wine, stencil

Places

Other places (Berlin)

Other items in this set

Many people who experienced the final summer of SED rule in East Germany recall how fragile reality seemed at the time. The incongruity between the way normal citizens experienced reality and the way it was perceived by GDR leaders was all too apparent. People were increasingly articulating this discrepancy. Minor concessions, as in the case of travel, for instance, were intended to improve the mood within the population. Rising protest against living conditions continued to be nipped in the bud. That summer nobody could have imagined that the dream of freedom would soon be reality.