{"id":3071,"date":"2021-03-15T16:05:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T15:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kulturprojekte.henne-ordnung.de\/?post_type=projects&p=3071"},"modified":"2025-06-16T11:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T09:00:13","slug":"50th-anniversary-of-the-building-of-the-berlin-wall","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/kulturprojekte.berlin\/en\/projects\/50th-anniversary-of-the-building-of-the-berlin-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"50th Anniversary of the Building of the Berlin Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We joined with the Berlin Wall Foundation to pay tribute to the victims of the Berlin Wall and the division of Germany in a very special way.<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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On 13 August 1961, the lives of millions of Berliners changed dramatically overnight. A 160-km-long militarily border was set up around West Berlin, dividing the city, separating families, friends and neighbours, and cutting off entire streets, waterways and public transport lines. The focus of the diverse event programme we co-developed with partners to mark the 50th anniversary of the building of the Wall was on precisely these themes, namely the inhumanity of the Berlin Wall, the profile of the divided city, and the destinies and the hopes of people on both sides. Our aim was to give contemporary audiences living 50 years after the fact a tangible sense of what it was like the day the GDR built the Berlin Wall, an event of which many people still have indelible memories.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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The outdoor exhibition near the Berlin Wall Memorial featured 23 large-scale images set up along Bernauer Stra\u00dfe. It was opened with over 20,000 guests at a main event held on 13 August 2011. Since that day, eye-catching snapshots of particular events associated with the Wall can be seen at eleven locations along its former path, reminding visitors of the events that took place at those very sites. We also created and implemented an exhibition titled “Der geteilte Bahnhof” (The divided train station) at Bahnhof Friedrichstra\u00dfe, which was open for eleven days after the 13th August and attracted more than 8,000 visitors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t