The Berlin Wall

For twenty-eight years, two months, and twenty-eight days, the “Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,” as the GDR officially called the Berlin Wall, was a brutal reality. It cut through an entire city, ran through buildings, interrupted roads, waterways, and rail traffic, tore friends and families apart, and destroyed hopes—and lives.

The exhibition “Mauerperspektiven” (Wall Perspectives) is a fragmentary approach to the history of the Berlin Wall, primarily using multimedia. It offers special views that were only possible for a select few during the concrete wall era, sometimes only for a very small number of people. Views, perspectives, and bird’s-eye views—a constant return to the same place to make the now largely vanished, almost unimaginable past more tangible in many of its facets and dimensions.