Cultural Perspectives on the Wall

Dear Reader,

Today we went to Columbus and visited the Ohio University.
We saw an exhibition about the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In the first part of the exibitions there were photographs, which showed the delvelopement from a certain place or bulding in the course of time. Usually the buildings get renovated, but sometimes they are completly abrupted.

In the second part students from University of Regensburg presented their way of understanding the topic. They tried to show the visitor that in some cases the incidents are already forgotten, and in others their are many people still remembering today. The asked people about their feelings when thinking of the past. They wanted to know about their mind about the gap between former West and East Germany.

I think I don´t really learn anything new, but it is always an interesting issue, which can never be forgotten.

The difference between exibits in Germany and in foreign countries maybe are that Germany can show more authentic materials, because they saved it. Another facts is that it is possible to visit certain places.

The reconstruction of the Berlin wall, should remember the people what happens in the past. These contemporary witness can be shown to our descendants.

The Berlin wall was a material division, between the former East und West Germans, today their is still a seperation between both sections. It´s getting better and better but it needs time. To this day their are prejudices that e.g the former West Germans are arrogant and the East Germans are lazy. Especially for my generations their is no real difference because we don´t wittness the past happenings.