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The First Free Elections to the Volkskammer, in the Outskirts of Berlin, January to March 1990: Bündnis 90 poster, "Power needs control" [111/207]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

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

License: Creative Commons License

"Macht braucht Kontrolle" ("Power needs control"). A wall with an election poster for Bündnis 90 (Alliance 90), an alliance of the citizens' movements: Neues Forum, Demokratie Jetzt and the Initiative Freiheit und Menschenrechte.

Depicts

dog, election poster, graphic art, logo, motto

Context

election campaign, Volkskammer election

People/Organizations

Alliance 90

Places

Other places (Berlin)

Text in image

Macht braucht / Kontrolle / Bündnis 90 / Bürger für Bürger

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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)