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The First Free Elections to the Volkskammer, in the Outskirts of Berlin, January to March 1990: Wall art, "God help me survive this deadly love" [1/207]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

October 1990
Berlin, Mühlenstraße
Created By: Dagmar Lipper

License: Creative Commons License

From the Set

German Unity Day, Berlin, 3 October 1990

Wall art mural, "Mein Gott hilf mir, diese tödliche Liebe zu überleben" ("God help me survive this deadly love") by Dmitrij Vrubel at the 1.3km long East Side Gallery in Berlin-Friedrichshain

Depicts

East-Side Gallery, graffiti (mural), hugging, portrait

Context

3 October, farewell, friendship, public holiday, scepticism, unemployment

People/Organizations

Erich Honecker, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev

Places

East-Side Gallery, Red Town Hall, Reichstag building

Text in image

Mein Gott hilf mir diese tödliche Liebe zu überleben

господи помоги мне выжить / среди етои смертнои дюъвию.

Künstler: Dimitri Vrubel Moskau / Künstleragentur Brodowski / Berlin 1034 PSF 29, Tel (0372) 3753504

Künstler, Vrubel, Moskau Künstleragentur / Brodowski Berlin 1034 PSF 29

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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)