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Remembering the construction of the Berlin Wall

Fifty years ago, the construction of the Berlin Wall began. DW-TV looks back:

https://p.dw.com/p/RYaF

For many, attempts to scale the Wall ended in death. He was the last person to be shot as he tried to escape. He was just 20 years old.

The Short Life of Chris Gueffroy

08.2011 DW-TV 50 Jahre Mauerbau Chris Gueffroy
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He was the last to be shot at the Berlin Wall. Chris Gueffroy was 20 when he died in early 1989. His name became a synonym for the Berlin Wall’s brutality. What kind of a person was Chris? Why did he want to flee East Germany? This is a portrait of a young man, his life and his dreams. It’s also a film about his mother,Karin Gueffroy. She says her country and homeland, East Germany,"died" along with her son. She could no longer stay there, stressing that "you only wake up when something like this happens to you!"


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A wall of stone, separating ideologies and people…. impacting life for three decades in a divided city.

The Berlin Wall

Half a century has now passed since the building of the Berlin Wall, symbol of oppression, dictatorship and the Cold War. How did people live in the two parts of the divided Germany and the divided Berlin? A time dominated by military parades, the shooting of would-be refugees at the Wall, student unrest, treaties allowing West Berliners to visit their relatives in the East and high-profile spy exchanges. Global politics were largely dictated by the Iron Curtain, as crises threatened to spiral out of control, pushing the world to the edge of a nuclear war. The Berlin Wall has left its mark on people - politicians, artists and long-suffering families - in East and West to the present day.


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Part 1: Life in a Divided City - 1961 - 1975


08.2011 DW-TV 50 Jahre Mauerbau Berliner Mauer

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Part 2: Life in a Divided City - 1976 - 1990

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Udo Lindenberg’s concert in East Berlin in 1983 was a sensation. The West German musician rocked for peace at the Palace of the Republic ... while his fans outside locked horns with state security officials.

The Lindenberg File

Udo Lindenberg spent eight years fighting for permission to stage a concert in East Germany. On 25 October 1983 the West German rock star finally played to a selected audience in the "Palace of the Republic”, in East Berlin. Taking the Stasi files on Udo Lindenberg, this documentary reconstructs the entire story surrounding the famous performance in East Berlin. When Udo LIndenberg released his song "Rock Arena in Jena” in 1975, in which he dreamed of a concert in East Germany, the apparatchiks in the East German regime already sensed that this rocker’s music would make their lives difficult.

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08.2011 DW-TV 50 Jahre Mauerbau Udo Lindenberg


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