The exhibition entitled ‛Views of the Wall – The Wall in Potsdam in the Autumn of 1989‘ runs until 31 October 2009 at Babelsberg Palace in Potsdam. In November 1989 – while the process of opening the Berlin Wall was still ongoing – the photographer Peter Rohn created a
comprehensive and highly artistic photographic record of the ‛fall‘ of the Berlin Wall along its Potsdam sections: New Garden, Babelsberg Park and Glienicke Park. During these few weeks, when the wall was still standing and the outcome of the peaceful revolution in the GDR was still unclear, he produced some fascinating and rare snapshots of history. In the pictures the wall has not yet been demolished, but the viewer gets a sense that the clearly evident menace associated with the wall is already starting to disappear, making way for a healing
process that would ultimately result in the restoration of the cultural landscape in Potsdam and Berlin.
Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation, Visitors‘ centre, Web: http://www.spsg.de/
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