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The First Free Elections to the Volkskammer, in the Outskirts of Berlin, January to March 1990: New Cloth Hall in Leipzig [1/207]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

March 30 - April 1 1990
Leipzig, Augustusplatz
Created By: Dagmar Lipper

License: Creative Commons License

From the Set

A visit to a penfriend in Leipzig, 30 March to 1 April 1990

New Cloth Hall, designed by Rudolf Skoda and completed in 1981; the neo-Baroque Mende Fountain, created in 1883, in front

Depicts

concert hall, group of people, town square

Context

apartment, building, deterioration, friend, letter, parents, parking spot, surveillance, visit, youth

People/Organizations

Ministry for State Security

Places

Augustusplatz (Leipzig)

Other items in this set

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)