Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Greens group, European Parliament “I was in Frankfurt. What I remember most was a press conference being held by Gunter Schabowski, the GDR’s spokesman. The representative of the… 02/11/2009 - Tags: Anniversary, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
Wojciech Jaruzelski, former president of Poland “I can hardly remember where I was exactly. I was probably in my office. I got the news even before it was official. I must say it was not a big… 02/11/2009 - Tags: Germany, Anniversary, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
When the Berlin Wall fell: Pavel Fischer, Czech Ambassador to France 02/11/2009 - Tags: Germany, Anniversary, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
Volker Schlöndorff, Filmmaker 02/11/2009 - Tags: Germany, Anniversary, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
Cristian Mungiu, Filmmaker “I was in my home town when it happened. But what was more important for me was that after the Berlin Wall fell, all the other communist regimes did too… 02/11/2009 - Tags: Germany, Anniversary, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
Emir Kusturica, Filmmaker “I was in the United States. I was teaching at Columbia, so I was taking it as just another working day. So for me, all these things that happened once… 02/11/2009 - Tags: Germany, Anniversary, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
When the Berlin Wall fell: Pascal Lamy 02/11/2009 - Tags: Germany, Anniversary, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
When the Berlin Wall fell: Laurent Joffrin, Editor Liberation 02/11/2009 - Tags: Germany, Anniversary, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
When the Berlin Wall fell: Ezio Mauro, Director, la Repubblica “I was the Moscow correspondent for la Republica and one of my strongest memories was the day when Gorbachev kind of accepted the reunification of Germany… 02/11/2009 - Tags: Germany, Anniversary, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
When the Berlin Wall fell: Javier Moreno, Editor, El Pais “I had the chance to live fairly in Germany. The weekend I went to Berlin, the emotion was overwhelming. It was only after I started working as a… 02/11/2009 - Tags: Germany, Anniversary, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
When the Berlin Wall fell: Jutta Scheffer “I was studying politics in West Berlin. That night we went out thinking nothing was going to happen, we were dancing in a nightclub, suddenly the DJ said the… 02/11/2009 - Tags: Germany, Anniversary, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
When the Berlin Wall fell: Sebastian Saam, euronews “I come from Passau in Lower Bavaria, a town which lots of refugees fled to because it was the first town after the frontier coming from Hungary. Many… 02/11/2009 - Tags: Germany, Anniversary, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
When the Berlin Wall fell: Herbert Rudolf “I come from the German minority in Romania and during those weeks and months, I just listened to the radio all the time. I had a little short-wave radio… 02/11/2009 - Tags: Germany, Anniversary, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
When the Berlin Wall fell: Cristoph Debets “For me, the fall of the Berlin Wall came a day too late. I then worked for BBC World Service German output and the night before, I was the duty editor for… 02/11/2009 - Tags: Germany, Anniversary, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009, Photo Focus
Mikhaïl Gorbachev, former president of the USSR“I was in Moscow. It was night. I was asleep. Very early in the morning. It was the ambassador who phoned to inform me, and I said: ‘It was to be expected,’… 02/11/2009 - Tags: Germany, Anniversary, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
Velvet generationsCzech sculptor David Cherny’s Trabant adorns the German embassy garden in Prague, a tribute to the days leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the… 24/10/2009 - Tags: History, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
Hungary reflects on the fall of the Berlin WallThe sequence of events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall began almost 20 years ago when a Hungarian border guard chose not to stop a flood of East… 15/10/2009 - Tags: Hungary, NATO, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
Interview with Brent Scowcroft, National security advisor in the George H.W. Bush AdministrationBrent Scowcroft was in the White House when the Berlin Wall came down. At the time he was National Security Advisor under the George H. W. Bush… 09/11/2009 - Tags: Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
Mikhail Gorbachev, former USSR President :“Perestroika won, but politically I lost.”In 1986, the Soviet regime made the first breach in the Iron Curtain. Mikhail Gorbachev, the new Secretary General of the Communist Party, used the 27th… 05/11/2009 - Tags: Russia, History, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
Interview with Walter Momper, former Mayor of West Berlin and BerlinWalter Momper was mayor of West Berlin when the Wall came down almost twenty years ago. In the autumn of 1989 city authorities had been preparing for the… 04/11/2009 - Tags: Germany, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s last communist leaderWojciech Jaruzelski was Poland’s last Communist leader. He is a controversial figure, because as Prime Minister he imposed martial law in 1981. He says he… 03/11/2009 - Tags: Poland, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
Jacques Delors: Former European Commission President“The event was a shock, we had to wait and see if it was going to happen peacefully.” 20 years ago Jacques Delors, then President of the European… 30/10/2009 - Tags: EU Commission, European Union, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
Neukölln puts accent on integrationTwenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, more than 38 per cent of the Berlin city district of Neukölln is made up of immigrant familes and the… 05/11/2009 - Tags: Unemployment, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
Two sides of the wallTwenty years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, two families reflect on the changes they have seen since the reinforced concrete that divided a nation was… 24/10/2009 - Tags: Germany, Anniversary, Berlin Wall, 1989-2009
Leipzig-The birthplace of a peaceful revolution Leipzig, the city of Bach and Mendelssohn is also the place that spawned a revolution. On October the 9th 1989, 70,000 citizens defied the guns and the will… 23/09/2009 - Tags: Germany, History, Fall of the Berlin wall, Berlin Wall
Tiananmen Square and the Berlin Wall 20-years on 1989 saw two of the most dramatic events in recent world history, in June China ordered the crackdown on pro-democracy students at Tiananmen Square, while… 29/10/2009 - Tags: Germany, China, Berlin Wall
