‘Eine Straße über den Friedhof Weißensee‘ / ‚A Road across the Jewish Cemetery Weißensee‘, exhibition catalogue Ein anderes Land: Jüdisch in der DDR / Another Country. Jewish in the GDR (Berlin: Jüdisches Museum Berlin / Ch.Links Verlag, 1923)

Impact: Society and culture, Awareness and understanding, Attitudes and behaviours

Public summary

Contribution to the Jewish Museum Berlin’s exhibition catalogue. The piece treats the GRD’s (Eastern Germany) foiled road plans to build a 6-lane expressway across the Jewish Cemetery Weißensee in the 1980s, arguing that the citizens’ protests against the scheme formed a testing ground for the GDR civil rights movement that helped to bring down the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Impact date2023
Category of impactSociety and culture, Awareness and understanding, Attitudes and behaviours
Impact levelEngagement