Berlin celebrates 35 years of the fall of the Berlin Wall: hold up freedom and remember!

Berlin celebrates 35 years of the fall of the Berlin Wall: hold up freedom and remember!

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Berlin shines in a festive shine, while the city celebrates the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. With an impressive open-air installation and a variety of events, this historical event is honored. The focus is on 5,000 posters that are presented along the former wall in the city center. These posters combine the demands of the brave demonstrators of that time with the hopes and wishes of today's generation. The motto of the action is: "We keep freedom up", like the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported.

The impressive installation extends over around four kilometers and already attracts numerous visitors, including many tourists. It begins on Invalidenstrasse and leads through the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate and Potsdamer Platz to Axel-Springer-Straße. The structure of this monumental installation lasted several days and is an impressive sign of memory and commemoration.

Multimedia and music for freedom

Along the route, multimedia presentations and small exhibitions are offered at various stations that inform about the events of the turning autumn and illuminate topics such as escape and participation. On Saturday, the actual anniversary, a concert will take place with hundreds of musicians who play the "soundtrack of freedom". This musical performance should keep the emotions and the importance of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The GDR citizens' rights activist Marianne Birthler warned in her statements of new walls that need to be overcome. "I don't mean that between left and right and not between east and west," she said. "But I mean the wall between the people who defend democracy and those who try to abolish them." These words are an urgent appeal to protect the values ​​of freedom and democracy, as well as the Tagesspiegel holds.

A look into the future

Frank Ebert, the representative for the processing of the SED dictatorship of the State of Berlin, also emphasized the dangers that threaten democracy. "We actually live here in the world in the world," he said, and warned against slipping into autocratic structures. "It is important that we defend our democratic institutions," he added.

Bundestag president Bärbel Bas paid tribute to the courage of the GDR citizens who fought for freedom 35 years ago and brought the wall to collapse. "With the peaceful revolution of democracy all over Germany, the East Germans have served a great service," she said in the Bundestag and emphasized that their example is also a model for peaceful revolutions for the world.

The celebrations for the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall are not only a look back at the past, but also a call to vigilance in today's world. The voices of the past hallen through the streets of Berlin and remind us that freedom and democracy must always be defended.