Fall of the Berlin Wall

1989

Highlights

Interviews

Katalin Bársony
Occupation: Documentary filmmaker and director of Romedia Foundation
Constanze Itzel
Occupation: Museum Director at the House of European History in Brussels
Ian Kershaw FBA
Occupation: Emeritus Professor of Modern History at University of Sheffield
Ivan Krastev
Occupation: Chairman of Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia
Hartmut Mayer
Occupation: Director of the European Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Adolfo Mesquita Nunes
Occupation: Politician (Portuguese CDS - People's Party)
Natalie Nougayrède
Occupation: Editorial Board member and columnist for The Guardian
Federico Gobbo
Occupation: Professor of Interlinguistics and Esperanto
Name withheld
Born: 1989
Location: United Kingdom
Name withheld
Born: 1963
Occupation: Secretary
Location: Germany
Stefan Cibian
Born: 1981
Occupation: Researcher
Location: Germany
Koert Debeuf
Born: 1974
Occupation: Editor in Chief, EUobserve
Nadja Eckert
Born: 1994
Occupation: Masters Student of Global Studies
Karlheinz Essl
Born: 1960
Occupation: Composer
Location: Austria
Gunther Fehlinger
Born: 1968
Occupation: Civil Society SME Association
Location: Austria
Heather Grabbe
Born: 1970
Occupation: NGO Director
Location: Belgium
Robert Grzeszczak
Born: 1974
Occupation: Professor in European Law at the Warsaw University, Lawyer
Location: Poland
John Karlsrud
Born: 1974
Occupation: Research Professor at Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Location: Ukraine
Igor Kolman
Born: 1979
Occupation: Communications expert and politician
Location: Germany
Olivier Lebleu
Born: 1971
Occupation: Entrepreneur, Co-founder of the Runnin'City App
Location: France
Sophie Wolter
Born: 1971
Occupation: Translator (French-English)
Location: France

Full list of project interviewees

On November 9, 1989, Germans on both sides of the Berlin Wall celebrated at the Brandenburg Gate as the Berlin Wall came down. The Iron Curtain and Berlin Wall served as the ideological and physical boundaries that separated Warsaw Pact countries in the 'East' and NATO-aligned countries in the 'West' throughout the Cold War. After peaceful mass protests across the Eastern Bloc, the Iron Curtain finally fell in 1989, ushering a new era in European history.