it was the summer of 198930 years later they chronicled the incredible story of their escape from east germany in a book and for us it was an experience that will bind them together forever. your romance. d.w. . to sustainable way discovered about how she. starts nov 14th on t.w. . moments of on forgettable joy in the berlin wall fell on nov 9th

1989 the city was divided no more. under those emotional images welcome to this special edition of euro max walking the full of the berlin wall 30 years ago built in 1961 off to some 500 east germans were fleeing daily to the west it stood as a symbol of the cold war that divided the world it was closely patrolled by east german border guards who were arrested or even shot anyone trying to cross the border on nov 9th 1989 the unbelievable happened the east german regime unexpectedly opened the border in berlin for this day that's event has left its mark on the city and today we'll show you just how it is a preview of what's coming up. why and you leave your unified brother and became an international techno how often the fault of the old. man in an east german couple's

incredible escape to the west. after almost 30 years east germans were finally free to visit the west of bolin on november 9th 1989 august kathleen hobson how it tells us her story from the night the wall fell as an opponent of the east german regime she had just recently been released from prison and secretly secretly traveled from lights to east berlin that evening unexpectedly able to celebrate her 21st birthday in west berlin the very next day. name all men for we here do or no men we flooded 3 here i was as if a bottleneck couldn't come down to the spurs you've got to literally sense that down had given us to the so many different levels it was no turning back for what has happened here we don't care this was something which would try really change

the tone of our lives said. bill denver 9989 for the 1st time in decades east german citizens could cross into west berlin. the train hot in the hour was there she walked over this bridge and celebrated her 21st birthday in west berlin on november 10th a few hours earlier it would have been unthinkable. it had the 2nd guns because they're not considered it's my very own personal best a present and i still do you want to but it was a time when east west with closest and often gardens i'm me about whether one night it will almost completely connect outside one troops neatly complet without question without all of this boost versus west and it was for a sense that you also need to know that i'd only just recently been released from prison wealth and good paying as a buffer and i didn't actually have permission to be in bed and then had to add an

openness in that in which to be as a student in life sic she actively opposed the east german regime she took part in the weekly prayers for peace and demonstrations which sparked the peaceful revolution in east germany. at a protest in september 989. and how our held up a banner. that read for a free country with free people. down the coast we knew that if there was evidence if we could be seen that meant we could find bombs. i'm for a long time it was a trade off because we wanted freedom so much voice was convinced that we had to take the initiative isn't up to that story than the price would possibly be present in the post and in my case that was sent via. the finnish song. a week after that demonstration cuts mean heart and how i was arrested she faced up to 10 years

in jail after 5 weeks in solitary confinement she was released the beheading of also i think at my id and sent to be prepared to stand trial once we clear up this matter on the streets we'll be back in here again. as i hope that somehow things will change for the better for me personally i would have been that that the entire country would open up so quickly and completely there was something no one could have predicted with me on this one could she been released but couldn't leave leipzig and was under observation so she fled over her building's roof top and went to east berlin and yeah yeah i crossed into the west here with friends on november the 9th investigator mcmahon my 1st day was the next day here in my 9th month and given that you ready started celebrating into a year not the phone from here in prince law back. to fear monger because our at

some point you only came over and said here are the keys i'm going over to see what's happening at the border how my bridge. i heard something about it on the news not long afterwards we followed him. cutting out an hour's birthday was to turn out very differently than expected. the whole city was celebrating the opening of the border. here's quite spared his face is christ back on. this is the west i can no longer say which building it was but i remember that this was a street and. we will welcome today with great jubilation and joy and i celebrated my birthday early in my right before i met friends who'd left east germany and whom i thought i might never see again. via. the train hardly

how it was jail many east german dissidents campaign for her release. at the get 70 church in east berlin they held vigils as a symbol of peaceful protest. the start him off a device they shot that's a lot and have 30 years ago for people like me so it's guns when it's really something is wonderful warm really positive to see that today people are still committed to this on t.v. they have the passion and persistence to gather hand every day at 6 pm to remember the political prisoners around the world should have been jailed for standing up for what they believe in. darfur the same. move through the stand. at the daily service the train hard and how are sometimes leads the prayer for political prisoners like she once was. today she's an artist and explores themes like freedom

and courage and she's working on a dissertation about what drives activists who. also do things in science done in the meantime the places i've been to visit projects and the work i've done i wouldn't have been able to do any of that if the wall hadn't fallen as if i might have received a long prison sentence until you know is how i would have changed when i got out on the field fair and not something i never have to find out. some gloop most interesting. and we have a whole series focusing on german artists and their memories of that fateful night 30 years ago you can find them on our you tube channel d.w. you're a max along with lots of other exciting content. want to learn more about european lifestyle and culture. then you come to the right. the euro max.

you can. take the plunge into an underwater restaurant. try. and flavored cuisine join the race and destroy. the euro max you. subscribe so you don't miss it. this kind of music had a decisive influence upon but in the ninety's after the full of the berlin wall countless buildings in the eastern part of the city stood empty the techno scene gave them a new pup was turning them into policy venues as the german capital became a hub full techno music on of the most popular clubs at that time was bizarre. millions of the bravest and d.j.'s from around the world through this. and london stuff like jim and d.j.

pull vandyke. because it's a nice market merce to enter the kind of empty chamber there was a bar and in the beginning the d.j. was there there was a metal barrier and the sound system was behind that and that's where all the partying went on for a great part. of the police can put in you walk through that room and saw the barrier the walkers this bass heavy door to get to that was impressive for. that to the $990.00 s. . club helped to make the top of the international techno scene digimon since he became world famous as the posse they knew all the big name d.j.'s appeared at the taser gun salute closed temporarily in 2005 among them jeff knows from detroit. d.j. is now famous the world over such as germany's pool van dyke launched their careers

at the taste. that was the 1st time i'd ever appeared in front of people when i was at home i turn the bass down low on this machine lies about here was this enormous bose a subwoofer system or. so i heard things in my music i'd never heard before i got the idea yeah this is what i want to do with me right. 'd now that is there was to be the 1st object for a large scale berlin exhibition due to open in 2020. 'd 9 for the nearly completed reconstruction of the palace the home bought for him it will include an exhibition that spotlights how clever lies ation and social change the transforming germany's capital. to polish peace to the museum. a symbol for 100

years of berlin history 'd. in the early 20th century the door protected the vault of the baton department store at the time the biggest and most elegant in europe its jewish owners would lay to expropriate by the nazis 'd 3 of them. during world war 2 the building was partly destroyed and then in east german times demolished. i think it's a beautiful thing i don't know about you but i see a certain aesthetic in it. this industrial ism the rust is wonderful i love this pattern of history on it. after many years dimitri him and discovered the department still intact senate including the vault. after the fall of the dmitri and some friends went looking for new spaces in the form. they stumbled across the subterranean chamber. we discovered the

cellar stairs behind some shelves wow we stood there holding up our lighters we were all very very the. we entered this enormous cellar complex and it led to the steel chamber. and that was something very special to us. realized immediately this is a place offered the potential for setting up something really big for us comes course was also bush. and his overcame the nucleus of the linz techno scene attracting ravens from all over the world. today the cause was that all the stuff of legend. the dry ice fog machine helped. usually you couldn't even see who you're with because it was. also full of fun even or and you just lose yourself in the music here and i'm not made for an optical atmosphere there isn't having money if you couldn't see anyone you could just close

your eyes to mine. music history and it still plays witnessed a 100 years of human history. still exists today but on a different location again in an unusual venue by the way a former palace station. now another quick of german history is the fact that the split between east and west coast to different cuisines to develop one of the many restrictions people faced in east germany was the lack of fresh and high quality ingredients in a state controlled supply chain so quite a lot of imagination was required when it came to serving up a varied menu anyone who wants to taste some of those classic east german dishes can do so at a restaurant him berlin dining in an atmosphere reminiscent of an old east german establishment. it still was

a classic east german dish but for visitors from the west it was also a source of confusion instead of an escalade with mushrooms it was made with a sausage. germany had to be inventive with the jaeger schnitzel for instance where veal a scalloped is a high quality product is normally used we had to use pork. but that was also hard to come by so often so some housewives simply used a sausage rolls was a was a life i lost and it waltzed. into has been in restaurants specializes in dishes the favorites in east germany his east german version of his a slice of chefs in a sausage coated with flour one egg and breadcrumb and the baton from golden in carrot find. he follows the original recipe for the source to. see what else i cook the onions and butter and then add peeled tomatoes and catch

up. personally i always add a dash of gerken juices and what's up that's. the tomato sauce is she already. is that's a real tomato sauce my dear friend from the west a real east germany edition it still. 30 years after the fall of the ban him will the folks come a restaurant serves traditional instrument dishes i mean is the menu will fine take the furnishings to reminiscent of communist east germany. the menu also office ragu found with was dishonest toilet pool which was done to the chinese talking. and the so-called sweeting cup a popular desire to vanilla ice cream apple sauce at lake yeah and whipped cream on it he said it takes you back to east german time is that true did they make the list go by. it's nice anyway so i have command of the structure but remember that

it used to look like this should be even the chairs are just as uncomfortable but for that the food is great or it part of us should to get the gold guy had today was a favorite when we were young isn't off not so much when we go out at night to the broiler pan and pick up a grilled chicken i mention you want. to feel as if it actually i'm from the west. just here for a change my thoughts on this but then we didn't make it over to the east much. of the. it was often difficult to find the right ingredients in east germany many things were not readily available so east german stood in long lines especially when imported goods like bananas and oranges were on alpha regional an important role in good. german cuisine provided simple every day satisfying meals. and. we made

a lot of preserves and homemade foods for the hard times. to tighten the other warsaw pact countries also influenced east german cuisine is a fixed you from hungary and so young is a thick spicy soup from russia with sausage and meat scraps. in east german restaurants you have to wait to be seated but that had more to do with the shortage of tables then with customer friendly service. in the 1970 s. found its feet became a trend in both east and west germany developed its own versions of west german things rights but changed the name. grilled chicken for example growing. cold there. was no nasty. you know what the c.e.o.

used to be a roll with the meatball inside now i can compare the 2 and 4 and it had addressing a bit like barbecue sauce that was a grill letter just on the subject of the sky. our rate gun to still have a soft spot for east germany even if he had planned to leave as a child in all sides on top for i had submitted an application to emigrate means quite couldn't deal with a few things so after many years i made the decision that swan and slawson. as mystifies i wanted to be free to not have things forced upon me what i was supposed to think and what i wasn't but otherwise it was a really great time to show that side. in the end he didn't have to get a short time later the big one wolf and. germany's cuisine lives on and now thanks to our rate going to westerners and tourists i discover a new tube. and

if you would like to prepare a typical east german dish yourself we have a few recipes ready on facebook d w euro max. final report today we meet a couple who were determined to leave east germany and search for a better life in the west for them applying to leave legally was impossible so kathleen link. decided to flee into the west spending a whole year preparing for it in secret before they embarked on their journey just months before the wall fell had the authority found out they could have face jail and many other reputations for themselves and their families. together on the pages that hill above the center of their hometown of effort just like on that night in august $988.00 a year before they fled east germany. when

we finally realized deep down that we could do it. that we would escape and we would do it together. in a constant cleansing grew up. and he said any twenty's he decided to flee to the west as a child i was naive enough to dream of becoming a marine biologist and research dolphins but of course in east germany that was completely out of the question. in the mail there were maybe 5 vacancies for marine biology students and the students had to have permission to travel to the west for me that was impossible i would have had to break ties with my family in the west and serve in the army for 3 years so that was out of the question for me. cotton lincoln likewise from africa was also in the early twenties. i wasn't allowed to study because of my family some of my siblings and other family

members had applied to leave east germany had been in prison for attempting to flee . so i had no chance of going to university in east germany. in the. direct escape from east germany was too risky so on july the 4th 989 the couple began a long journey with many diversions then memories are documented in a book. or a love without. casting and catch him trained in secret for a year this like an effort to prepare for their perilous escape. as well the thoughts and nights we swim laps with snorkels within and with a black stocking of red heads. told. to stay fit and we even fasted

so we could learn to make do without food for a long time. first they flew to the then soviet union but had to give up their plans to flee to japan india or finland. fortunately they went to trade ok and ultimately they decided to flee via hungry for. a song or the other when we were finished in the soviet union we thought ok we still have our plan c. we can still try a route through hungry. so we went to hungary and we only wanted to get a glimpse of the border just to get close to it was but they caught us at the train station and put us in jail for the night. in may of 989 hungry had begun to dismantle its border fence with austria and in june it signed the geneva refugee convention east germans were fleeing to the west german embassy in budapest or across the border the situation was unpredictable. a few days after we

had reached safety someone from weimar was shot and killed everyone knew the situation had changed so we were still afraid when we succeed. would we be sent back to east germany. to decided to escape separately but 2 young west german tourists who hid it in the back seat of. it was august 13th $989.00 she made it to the west. point suddenly i had a west german girlfriend she was there she had done it i couldn't even imagine it is on the phone i also felt freed from responsibility for caught train. for on foot and now i was confident i could carry out my plan and swim through the danube. 3 days later constant entered the danube under the cover of darkness he sent for 6

hours with the current for 25 kilometers from hungary into the former yugoslavia his plan almost went wrong. and it was a very dramatic moment the guy had heard a noise the entire time but couldn't figure out where it was coming from turns out it was a patrol boat since i didn't order the sound of the boat came so close to me that i was probably caught in the suction of its propellers. i had to dive under. i was out for a few seconds i also saw a spotlight come toward me. costin was able to flee east germany after a total of $44.00 days the to make it up again in the west and married cost in front of the stream and became a marine biologist and cats. just 11 years ago they moved back to the city they once fought so hard to escape. a happy and then to round off today's special edition commemorating 30 years since the fall of the berlin wall and celebrating

the city but i'm very proud to have grown up and join us again next week for more your remarks about finale.

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