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A story on former GDR-prisoner Norbert Krebs, published in Galore Magazine, April 2009.

Various stories published in Silber (magazine of the German School of Journalism), December 2008.

Remains of the Inner German Border that divided communism from capitalism until the Fall of the Berlin Wall seen outside the Museum Eichsfeld near Goettingen, Germany, January 3, 2009. The year 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the Fall.

My memory of this episode is fragmented and blurred. I must have been seven or eight. I remember the endless queue at the border post. The guards searching our car. The potholes on the freeway. And me questioning my dad why there were two Germanies and if this will ever change. “No, never,” he told me, “it won’t.”

Shortly after he was proven wrong. On November 9, 1989 the border between the German Democratic Republic and The Federal Republic of Germany opened. For the first time since the erection of the Berlin Wall, people from the eastern were allowed to cross the border freely. On TV I watched people cheering and dancing on the wall and finally tearing it down. I would have loved to go there and witness it myself, but couldn’t convince my parents to drive me.

Now, almost twenty years later, I’ve started searching for traces left of the time after World War II and the Fall of the Iron Curtain. Here are some examples. I’d love to cover any assignments related to the 20th anniversary of the Fall. The story of Norbert Krebs, a former political prisoner in the GDR, is already finished an can be licensed (see below, text by a fellow writer is also available).

A portrait of Erich Mielke (1997-2000) the Minister of State Security of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 till 1989 in the Border Museum Eichsfeld, Germany, January 3, 2009. The desk was used by the GDR border patrol.