REFLECTIONS ON THE WALL - a personal retrospective [2009] 20 years behind , 20 years after , the Berlin wall 1969 born in the state formerly known as GDR / DDR or East Germany first memory: driving by the wall with s-bahn, glancing at the West, raising heart beat general memory: accepting the wall 1986: loosing a friend because of the wall . splitterleben 1989: Hungary, do we stay or do we leave 9th of november 1989 - memory blur: drunk in a club, somebody screaming: the wall is down next morning: FROZEN 2 weeks later, november 1989: hitch hike to berlin, first impression behind the wall 10 years of post wall depression SHOCKED 1998-current: traveling and the salt 2009: visit wall museum in Berlin Mitte with my father * transcript subjective conclusion: when your home country disappears forever - you are becoming a feather reflection 5: inselsehnsucht federlicht: reflect the light of your past and past past past peoples antye greie |