{"id":137652,"date":"2024-09-30T20:20:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T18:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event&p=137652"},"modified":"2024-10-01T13:49:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T11:49:21","slug":"the-palace-as-a-film-subject-three-documentary-films-from-1989-1991-and-2005","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/film-video-en\/the-palace-as-a-film-subject-three-documentary-films-from-1989-1991-and-2005-137652\/","title":{"rendered":"The palace as a film subject – three documentary films from 1989, 1991 and 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the theme weekend \u201cTransform!\u201d, the Humboldt Forum will be showing a total of six documentary films over two days that take a closer look at the social upheaval of 1989\/90. The two days will focus on different topics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday is dedicated to the Palace of the Republic as a place of remembrance. Based on this, three different points in the history of the Palace will be presented on film. Firstly, as the venue for the 40th anniversary celebrations, the building will become an important station in the Peaceful Revolution. Secondly, they can encounter the building in 1991, when it stood like a time capsule in the center of Berlin, which the new government did not quite know what to do with. Thirdly, they can get to know the building after the asbestos was removed, when it was used by artists and revisited by many old acquaintances. All three moments mark a break in the relatively short but extremely eventful history of the building.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, 6 October, the film program will focus on the political transformation of the GDR and the preparation and implementation of reunification. Many of the decisions that influenced the lives of the then 16 million inhabitants of the GDR were made in the Volkskammersaal of the Palace of the Republic. The documentary films are intended to shed light on the decisions and compromises that were made in favor of rapid accession to the FRG and how these affected the lives of the former GDR population. On three levels, the documentaries show examples of how reunification took shape \u2013 politically, economically and privately.<\/p>\n

Curated and hosted by Dominique Falentin<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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