EUCE and School of Modern Languages Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Lecture - Monday, November 9, 11am
“Berlin Kreuzberg SO 36 – Before and After the Fall of the Berlin Wall.”
By Peter Frischmuth, Photographer
Location: Crescent Room, Stamps Student Center

The European Union Center of Excellence and the School of Modern Languages, in partnership with German Consulate and Goethe Institute of Atlanta are happy to invite you to the commemoration this important event in German history.
With an opening statement provided by the School of Modern Languages Chair Dr. Phil McKnight, German photographer Peter Frischmuth will present his revealing photo exhibition of Berlin, taken before and after the Fall of the Wall. Containing photos from 7 years before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1982, as well as from 2009, Mr. Frischmuth’s exhibition provides an insightful account of the social and physical transitions which have taken place in Berlin since 1989.

“Kruezberg SO 36” illustrates the stark changes that have taken place in the Berlin neighborhood of Kreuzberg since 1989. Located in West Berlin and surrounded by the Berlin Wall on three sides until 1989, Kreuzberg has transformed itself from a sleepy “dead-end” neighborhood during the Cold War to Berlin’s present-day center of urban-alternative culture. Mr. Frischmuth, whose photos have been featured in major German publications such as Der Spiegel, Focus and Stern, offers views of this
startling contrast through his personal discourse and experience as well as through his photographic contribution.

This event is free and open to the public.