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"A short talk, here and today", a future workshop addressing the theme 'What next GDR?', East Berlin, October 6, 1989

"At long last! We've been waiting for you." 9 November 1989, Berlin

"Berlin – A city forces open its wall" (1961-1989) (excerpts)

"The Joyous Invasion", 11/12 November 1989

"The Wall is gone", Berlin, November 13, 1989

"Endlich", Weferlingen, November 1989

"Especially not now". Answer to a warning letter from a friend beyond the Wall, on the eve of June 17, 1989

"History Live", 10 November 1989

Oktoberfrühling – A Film about the New Beginning, Frankfurt/Oder, Autumn 1989

"Prosperity for All", Obereichsfeld, July 1990

"Prosperity for All", Obereichsfeld, March 1990

A Demonstration: The “Round Table from Below”, East Berlin, 4 November 1990

"Wallpeckers", November 1989

9 November 1989, Berlin

A Caravan in Halberstadt, 24 December 1989

A daytrip on the other side of the border, Wismar, 3 July 1990

A journey to the GDR, summer 1990

A new border crossing, Günthers/Motzlar, November 1989

A New Year’s Eve outing, 31 December 1989

A reunion with friends from the GDR on the Glienicke Bridge, December 1989

A stroll along the Wall, Berlin, November 19, 1989

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

A Visit to My Aunt – “Holiday from the System”, 20 June 1989

A year later, November 9, 1990

Demolition of the Wall, West Berlin, June/July 1990

Transporting Segments of the Wall to Paris, East Berlin, Winter 1990/1991

At the Brandenburg Gate, 10 November 1989

At the border crossing in Teltow, December 1989

At the Ballot Box, East Berlin, 2 December 1990

An East-West marriage, 3 June 1989

At and on the Wall, 10-11 November 1989

The Arrival of the "Lüneburger Heide", Wittenberge, 25 December 1989

Trains Packed with Refugees, Hof Central Station, 1 October 1989

Asylum-Seekers from Romania, East Berlin, Late Summer 1990

On the way to the Brandenburg Gate, 10 November 1989

On the Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, 10 November 1989

Decampment to a new life, 9 August 1989

Build up to the German national election campaign with the CDU party and Helmut Kohl, Duderstadt, 2 May 1990

Trips and Travels

Rioting at Alexanderplatz, East Berlin, 3 October 1990

“Probleme ohne Grenzen”: An Exhibition, Wismar, 17 March 1990

Exhibition in the St. Nicholas' Church, Leipzig, 4 October 1990

Exhibition theme: Encounters and Explorations

Exhibition theme: German Unification

Exhibition theme: The Border Opens

Exhibition theme: The Transformation of the GDR

Exhibition theme: Protest and Flight

Exhibition theme: A Semblance of Normalcy

Auswahl HG - Modul 1

Auswahl HG - Modul 2

Auswahl HG - Modul 3

Auswahl HG - Modul 4

Car accident at the newly opened GDR border, Lichtentanne, January 6, 1990

Building activities

Before and after the fall of the Wall, Berlin, November 1989

Welcoming West Germans, Plauen, 24 December 1989

During the last 'May Day', Magdeburg, 1 May 1989

Berlin changes, February to June 1990

Berlin, Brandenburg Gate

Berlin, the years of change

Berlin. November/December 1989 (part 1)

Berlin. November/December 1989 (part 2)

Berliner Rock night in the Schretzheim community centre, 16 September 1989

Visitors from the so-called "valley of the clueless"

Birthday voyage on the Glienicke Lake, August 1990

Border Crossings in Berlin, 10 November 1989

Border opening in Berlin, 9 November 1989

Border opening in Ludwigsstadt/Probstzella, 12 November 1989

Border opening Rudolphstein/Hirschberg, 9 and 10 November 1989

Border Soldiers on High Alert at Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, 7 October 1989

Bornholmer Straße Border Crossing, Berlin, 9/10 November 1989

Brocken/Harz, September 1990

Bruno Fröhlich

Citizens’ Action Group for German Unity, Güstrow, Winter 1989/1990

Celebratory opening of the Brandenburg Gate

Chemie AG Bitterfeld, August 1990

Christer Markgraf

Christian Zeiler

Church congress in Leipzig, July 9 1989

Crossing the Border by Mail Coach, Hornburg, 25 May 1990

Das Projekt ARTich aus dem Spreewald

The Queste Festival, Questenberg, South Harz Mountains, Pentecost 1990

East German Refugees at the Order of Malta Relief Camp, Budapest, 10 September 1989

GDR border in August 1990

Demonstration against the single ticket voting system, Leipzig, May 7 1989

Demonstration at Market Square in Gotha, 29 October 1989

Demonstration in East Berlin, 7 October 1989

Demonstration in Plauen, 7 October 1989

Demonstration in Potsdam, 7 October 1989

The man in the wheelchair on the Berlin Wall, Berlin, February 1990

The fall of the Wall: dreamed of - but not thought possible

First Meeting Place of the New Forum in Zeuthen, Autumn 1989

Deutsche Einheit 2

Exploring the other half of the city, Berlin, 1990

The inner German border

The Berlin Wall Has Fallen, November 1989

The fall of the Wall – a turning point in life and work

The Airfield Reopens, Nordhausen, 23 June 1990

Dietmar Bührer

Eckardt Hoffmann Archiv

Economic Change

Ein Jahr deutscher Geschichte 1989-1990. Eine Dokumentation in Wort und Bild von Sigrid Marotz

Impressions of Spring 1990

Election of the People's Chamber on 18 March 1990

Memories of the fall of the Wall in Berlin Wilhelmsruh, 7 April 1990

Exploratory trips to East Germany

The First Free Elections to the Volkskammer, in the Outskirts of Berlin, January to March 1990

Escape from East to West Berlin, October/November 1989

Escape from the GDR, October 1989

Escape to West Germany via Hungary, August/September 1989

FDJ Torchlight Procession, East Berlin, 6 October 1989

Family Holiday at Lake Balaton, Hungary, June 1989

Fleeing from Eberswalde to Munich, August/September 1989

Flucht eines Vertragsarbeiters

Football encounters, Dillingen/Berlin-Marzahn, December 1989 and May 1990

Fotos - Historischer HG

Fotos Europeana

Tears of Joy, Berlin-Lichtenrade, 11 November 1989

Gabriele Greaney

Gabriele Greaney

Garbage dumps shortly after the fall of the Wall, July 1990

In memory of the revolution in Rumania, Berlin, 26 December 1989

Remembrance of the Victims of the Berlin Wall

Mixed Feelings, Berlin, 3 October 1990

German Unity Day, Berlin, 3 October 1990

German Unity Day, Ferch, 3 October 1990

German-German Monetary Union, Berlin, 1 July 1990

Treffurt/Wanfried Border Crossing, 18 November 1989

Group Photographs

Hand made and D.I.Y.

Hartmut Kieselbach

Heinrich Litzke

Ihr erstes Album

Kai-Annett Becker

Karl-Hein Bosse Archiv

Supermarket in Luckenwalde, April 12, 1990

School trip to Berlin, 10 November 1989

Klaus Peter Albrecht

Laurent Tchedry

Magdeburg 1989/90 and 2005/06

Manfred Wettsein Archiv

Manfred Zimmerer

Marion Tolksdorf

Mary Joy Knothe

Visiting the Wall, Steinstücken near Berlin, 1 May 1990

Mauerdokumentation

Wall Cemetery, 1990

The Wall Opens at Potsdamer Platz, West Berlin, 12 November 1989

Meine Favoriten

Merit Schambach

Michael Löchelt

Military Training Camp in Storkow, On the Outskirts of Berlin, Summer 1989

The Exhibition Train in Leipzig, 16/17 May 1990

More Curiosity than Scepticism, Wurzen, August and November 1990

nachwende osten

The New Forum, Suhl, autumn 1989

New Year's Eve 1989, Brandenburg Gate

NOONe Inc., Video and Sound.

The Border Opens at Hohen Neuendorf/Berlin-Frohnau, 17 February 1990

The Wall Opens at the Brandenburg Gate, 21/22 December 1989

Over the lime trees towards German Reunification, Berlin, 3 October 1990

Whitsun thoughts 1990, German-German

Whitsun Meeting of the FDJ, East Berlin, May 1989

The Wall shrine, Berlin, 1990

Plastic Flowers, Drushba (Russian for friendship) and Süßtafel (Imitation chocolate bars), February 1990

Prominent Figures

Protest Statements from before the Fall of the Wall

Queues at Dorndorf/Rhön Border Crossing, 10 November 1989

Retracing Our Escape, Ahrenshoop, December 1989

Reunification, Berlin and Cottbus, 3 October 1990

Satire and Caricatures

Seventh mass demonstration in Plauen, November 1989

Shopping in Lichtenrade, 11 November 1989

The Firemen’s Get-Together, March 1990

Thomas Hackmann

Uniformierte wollen identifiziert werden

Uwe-Michael Troppenz

Vanished Architecture

Vietnamese migrant workers, Berlin, 18 November 1989

Wer war dieser GS

Wir lebten mit der Mauer

Wolfgang Herzer

Wolfgang Wagner Archiv

Wolfram Spiller

Your first collection

Hans-Michael Fritze