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One country, two societies? Germany twenty years after reunification Artur Ciechanowicz and Marta Zawilska-Florczuk, OSW Studies, 2011-02-15 | 3 October 2010 marked the twentieth anniversary of the reunification of the two German states. This is an occasion for summing up and evaluating the changes which have taken place in Germany since 1990. Germany became reunited [...]

Jiří/Jiri Dienstbier  (1937-2011), già ministro degli Esteri cecoslovacco (1989-1992 – Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia), è scomparso in questi giorni. (Sul rapporto tra teatro cecoslovacco e “rivoluzione di velluto” del 1989, vedi). ————-   FOTO sul MONUMENTO ALLA CORTINA DI FERRO Former German and Czechoslovak foreign ministers, Hans-Dietrich Genscher (left) and Jiri [...]

Króliki patrzą na ludzi zza berlińskiego muru rozmawiała Donata Subbotko, GW 2009-11-08 W poniedziałek TVP 1 o godz. 22.45 pokaże głośny film dokumentalny Bartka Konopki “Królik po berlińsku“, który znalazł się na krótkiej liście filmów dokumentalnych mających szansę na nominację do Oscara 2010 – leggi sul film pdf

- ” Un mur à Berlin ” réalisé par Patrick Rotman et diffusé le mardi 3 novembre 2009 à 20h35 sur France 2. Le documentaire Un Mur à Berlin est sa dernière réalisation. Sur un commentaire dit par Florence Pernel, Un Mur à Berlin raconte l’histoire de Berlin et des deux Allemagnes de la chute [...]

A EST DI BERLINO Limes 5/2009 in edicola e in libreria dal 27 ottobre EDITORIALE: COMUNICAZIONE DI SERVIZIO PARTE I — UNA RUSSIA, MOLTE EUROPE Sergej KARAGANOV – La guerra in Europa non è impossibile La radice geopolitica della guerra fredda non è stata estirpata. Serve un trattato di pace che fondi una struttura paneuropea [...]

In bicicletta sul confine mentre la Ddr alzava un muro, di Tonia Mastrobuoni – 13:11 | Guenter Nooke.  È uno dei diciassette fondatori del Demokratische Aufbruch, il movimento di opposizione in cui militò anche Angela Merkel. Oggi racconta la fuga dalla polizia segreta e quei maledetti pantaloni rossi che gli portarono addosso la Stasi. Il lunedì [...]

Segnalato da Euro-topics Rainer Bieling on the brave virtual world of the GDR The German Democratic Republic (GDR) ceased to exist on October 3, 1990. Rainer Bieling writes in the conservative daily Die Welt that after its demise as a state, communist East Germany continued its existence as a virtual project by preserving its intellectual [...]

The Expulsion of Germans from the East Copyright © 1963-2009, NYREV Of the 12 million or so Germans who fled or were expelled from Eastern Europe at the end of the war, the vast majority came from Czechoslovakia (3.5 million) or Poland (7.8 million). Most of the second group came from lands taken from the [...]

The black marketeers of Bahnhof Zoo Karl Schlögel looks at the molecular movements that brought down the Berlin Wall, Signandsight.com 24/03/2009 Looking at “historical moments” renders everything else invisible. The brilliant light radiating from such moments blinds or at least desensitises us to other things that may have happened. One need only look in the [...]

Germany: 2000th anniversary of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest The commemoration of numerous anniversaries in 2009 lead to many historical debates about German identity, amongst others about the meaning of the defeat of the Roman legions fighting with Germanic tribes in 9 AD. The anniversary of the victory of the Germanic chief Arminius was [...]

Der Tagesspiegel – Germany Criticism of jury’s decision on German reunification monument The competition for the design of a national monument to German reunification 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall has failed: None of the 563 designs that were submitted was considered to be good enough. Several artists and architects who competed, [...]