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Exhibition theme: The Transformation of the GDR: Poster for the project "Mauer Land Lupine" [31/39]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

April 22 1990
East Berlin, border strip
Created By: Butzmann, Manfred

License: Not Creative Commons

From the Set

Portraits

In April 1990, East Berlin artists Anna Franziska Lobeck, Peter Schwarzbach, and Manfred Butzmann launched an initiative to preserve the old border strip in the form of a landscaped park. A yellow band of flowers was to be created by sowing lupine seeds. The artists won over both the support of the Grüne Liga and GDR border soldiers. Unfortunately, the voracious appetites of birds, rabbits, and investors put an end to the initiative.

Depicts

animal, art event, artist, banner (flag), border fence, border strip, fence, group of people, man, musical instrument

Context

flower

People/Organizations

Butzmann, Manfred

Places

Reichstag building

Text in image

Für eine / Parklandschaft / in Berlin! / Für einen Grünzug / der verbindet. / Gegen Grenzen und / Stadtautobahnen, / die trennen! / Erinnern, Spazieren, / Radfahren, Spielen, / Ruhen, Baden und / in die Weite sehen - / mitten in der / Doppelstadt Berlin! / Ein Zeichen dafür: Unser Lupinenfeld- / 48km lang auf dem Grenzstreifen!

Mauer Land Lupine

Other items in this set

Shortly after the border was opened, changes were pushed through in the GDR. The most conspicuous came about during the campaign for the Volkskammer election in March 1990, when countless election posters, often with commentaries, became a popular motif for photographers. Important, too, was the presence of leading West German politicians at election meetings in all of the larger towns in East Germany – not to mention the elections themselves. The currency union, which came about on 1 July 1990, put Western goods in shops at standard prices. This was a first step in bringing the East closer to the West.