‘It has to go away, but at the same time it has to be kept’: the Berlin Wall and the making of an urban icon
‘It has to go away, but at the same time it has to be kept’: the Berlin Wall and the making of an urban icon
For 28 years, from 13 August 1961 through 9 November 1989, the city of Berlin was divided by a wall. The borderline was the symbol for the Cold War and the political partition between East and West – but it was also an element of the urban structure: Berliners in the two parts of the city had to live with it and to define themselves in relation to it. After the fall of the wall and its destruction in the euphoric mood of re-unification, a huge inner-urban wasteland became the symbol for the need of a new politics of memory: the missing Berlin Wall became an urban icon.
What business do we have in Berlin? Memories.
Uwe Johnson
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Schlör, Joachim
bb73c4ae-2ef4-44ba-b889-b319afb40b03
9 August 2006
Schlör, Joachim
bb73c4ae-2ef4-44ba-b889-b319afb40b03
Schlör, Joachim
(2006)
‘It has to go away, but at the same time it has to be kept’: the Berlin Wall and the making of an urban icon.
Urban History, 33 (1), .
(doi:10.1017/S0963926806003531).
Abstract
For 28 years, from 13 August 1961 through 9 November 1989, the city of Berlin was divided by a wall. The borderline was the symbol for the Cold War and the political partition between East and West – but it was also an element of the urban structure: Berliners in the two parts of the city had to live with it and to define themselves in relation to it. After the fall of the wall and its destruction in the euphoric mood of re-unification, a huge inner-urban wasteland became the symbol for the need of a new politics of memory: the missing Berlin Wall became an urban icon.
What business do we have in Berlin? Memories.
Uwe Johnson
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