Twenty years ago the Wall came down. This year take a moment to think about it. Buy a ticket online, go to Berlin, if like me you missed that event in 1989.

If you took already a look on Wikipedia and want to know more, in this section I loaded some videos, links to useful websites and took a note of interesting books on the topic. There are countless press articles and TV broadcasts in these days about the wall, but it is on the radio that it all becomes more intense. The official Chronik der Mauer website is your best source for original audio documents tracing back the existence of the wall, from August 1961 until November 1989.

On November 9th many events will take place in Berlin. A 24hr open air exhibition at Alexander Platz traces back the main events.

The Festival of Freedom will begin with an open-air concert at Pariser Platz by the Staatskapelle Berlin conducted by Daniel Barenboim. After the concert, the fall of the Berlin Wall will be symbolised by knocking over the designed dominos, which will be broadcast live in ZDF from 19.25 until 20.15. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend this extraordinary event. See the rehearsals done in the Summer.

Why not joining the 33,000 people flash mob by choosing your location on this website…

…and reaching your sector between 20.00 and 20.30 with a torch light? Where once stood the wall thousand of people will recreate a wall of light, which will dissolve before the party begins…

For almost three decades Berlin had been seperated by a Wall. The government of the GDR had erected this Wall on 13 August 1961 to cut off the connection between East and West Berlin and with it the escape movement rooted in the growing economic gap between East and West Germany. The government of the GDR itself called it an ‘anti-Fascist protective barrier’ although everyone knew that with its barbwire and firing order it was to prevent the GDR’s citizens from escape primarily.

source: Mauerfall09.de – satellite photo: NASA