Can’t stop the music…or the Wall coming down!
The Zeitgeschichtliches Foum Leipzig (Contemporary History Forum) provides a stunning, overwhelming and at times an emotional response to post 1945 Germany. Though ‘few would want to change’ there are ‘mixed feelings. How can these differences (East and West) be overcome and how can we strengthen our inner unity’.
The journey from the fall of the Wall to the present day is a mixed blessing of hopes, anxiety, frustration, lost dreams and a country still in search of its strengths and soul.
But let’s start with ‘Hits and Hymnen’ or can’t stop the music.. and the fall of the wall and a prelude to the permanent exhibition ‘Dictatorship and Democracy after 1945’.
https://www.hdg.de/zeitgeschichtliches-forum/ausstellungen/hits-hymnen-klang-der-zeitgeschichte
Music accompanies political movements and lends support to social demands’. Despite GDR efforts to ban bands Bruce Springsteen and many others contributed to the political protests of the 1980’s. Springsteen said he came to ‘tear down all walls’.
On 11 July 1988 he took to the stage in East Berlin front of 160,000 and released a wave of protest. The concert had been organised by the Free German Youth believing it would would release ‘tension’! The rest is an evolving history.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uERruPVs
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