isn't in germany at all so where is it. 1st off though and summit look at life inside the former east germany a dictatorship that hundreds of people died trying to escape now though almost 30 years after the fall of the berlin wall initiators of a new project called open memory box say it's time to finally start looking at other aspects of east germany too. personal memories were coded in a country that no longer exists. these home movies kept to a side of the former germany that most outsiders never knew private recordings that are now public thanks to documentary filmmakers herskovitz political scientist lawrence met folds the connected 415 hours of home movie rio's showing what real life looks like for real people under the socialist regime. the resulting website open memory box allows visitors to click keywords in english german french will russian watching clips from the archives of $149.00 east german families. the footage is universal most of these films seem like they could have been filmed most anywhere in europe the people in them are just people living their lives despite the dicta

another go any different than this is private life they did life in east germany something that many many people. didn't know and know very little about ok so it's neither good nor bad necessarily well. we never thought this project to do intend to balance any good or bad in what was a dictatorship in east germany we have course you know that there was a lot of a lot of problems and of injustice a lot of oppression but at the same time people were living in this country and not all of who are no more victims or. perpetrators protest is their only ok so that you're bringing it back to the personal and you have footage from 149 different families in this project were you surprised that so many people were eager to make their very private images so public you know very much them because some in when we when we 2014 started the project we thought that we might receive like 2025 or us and that would have been great but no within 10 days some people donated $400.00 to the project what do you think they wanted to make their private their home movies public like this maybe they fed the time

east berlin as much of the 1st that. was seen. as hundreds. lindenberg was known all over germany in the communist east you couldn't buy his songs easily these german fans would secretly record them when they were played on west german radio stations and copy them for friends. and they became very popular in the east these pirated cassettes and so i knew i had a lot of friends that. a lot of people who liked it and i wanted to get to know them wanted to go there and take off my glasses and say hello come a little bit close up. bag was only allowed to perform once in east germany you know tobin 1983 at the poll last year have to be can belive it is true fans remained outside to see perform just to hand selected a card carrying communist. that this was only possible for lyndon bag after the berlin wall had fallen as soon as he heard the momentous news he's being stright to berlin. i got to berlin very quickly and i had disguised myself a bit nope hat but rather some cap and weak painted beard and then i hit the streets and ran around for days on end or them occasionally repeating wh

the lyrics annoyed east germany's leaders. linda beggar a fast head injury and a heart not that the singing of the strong disapproval of east germany secret police the stasi. the socialist states harsh treatment of its citizens influenced lyndon banks so did the person experience he gathered on a trip that. in 1973 i visited for the 1st time. i met a really nice charming person and so on she was the 1st girl i'd met from these little moments making the full speech. it's. good to. 2 see. hugs. lindenberg was known all over germany in the communist east you couldn't buy his songs easily these german fans would secretly record them when they were played on west german radio stations and copy them for friends. and get with them so they became very popular in the east these pirated cassettes and so i knew i had a lot of friends that. a lot of people who liked it and i wanted to get to know them wanted to go there and take off my glasses and say hello come a little bit close up. bag was only allowed to perform once in east germany y

linda bank wanted to perform in east germany to bus to upstate lead to every indian bank sent him an electric guitar and then that the jacket reciprocated with his own gift. it's now on display in the exhibition. because the women who. work in this trademark song then the bank tries to take a subway train from west to east berlin at that time any possibility that the lyrics annoyed east germany's leaders. lindeberg were fast as indian and a hard nut that the singing of the strong disapproval of east germany secret police the stasi. the socialist states harsh treatment of its citizens influenced lyndon banks so did the personal experience he gathered on a trip there. in 1973 i visited for the 1st time. i met a really nice charming person and so on she was the 1st girl i'd met for me but little else make you feel as if you still. see. sons. who don't lindenberg was known all over germany in the communist east you couldn't buy his songs easily these german fans would secretly record them when they were played on west german radio stations and copy them for friends. and they became very

they all left east germany that way. after several tense weeks in the west german embassy in prague. it was in september 1989 east germans were poor ng into the embassy. the building was quickly overwhelmed. many ended up camping out in the embassy grounds it was cold. santa spent 3 weeks here with his wife and 2 children new arrivals came in over the fence every day. who opened. it never stopped raining the cut down board so he didn't have to walk through the mud the people is down to show in tents wherever they could find a space where you can match with the tents were all crowded up against one another with. their strength at it and say the then the fateful moment on the 30th of september west german foreign minister hans dietrich genscher arrived speaking to the refugees from the balcony his announcement that they could leave was drowned out by cheers i. was i was. i was i can't ship promised that everyone in the embassy would be allowed to go to the west i sang that was that and heard him i was now you're standing ri

but you can no longer was 57 when he made his debut with this novel tells the history of east germany through the eyes of a family his own family. the author's alter ego alexandre hates growing up in a country whose grandfather believes. he would never hear the rolling stones live would never see woodstock never even see west berlin with its new demos and student riots it's free love because between the small narrow world where he would have to spend his life and the other big wide world where real true life was lived there was a border and it was the one that he likes on their own it's our turn to have to guard. in times of fading light is about the failure of a whole country written without accusations or justifications read it if you want to understand what made people build communist east germany and why their dream was doomed to fail. the western german city of ball was looks big beethoven. where he spent 4 months of years of his life as a beethoven fast and in a featuring many of his works of course but then self was a great innovator so i'm sure he would have approved of the fi

reads a book called in times of fading light an intricate saga about family life in the former east germany. and we'll have a look at the beethoven fest in the great composers hometown of bonn which got underway we can. bots we begin in canada a toronto international film festival because of the time of year it's held it is rather like venice before it considered a bit of a launch pad for the oscars so apart from all the usual independent films there's a few hollywood blockbusters getting their premieres in toronto as well i'll be talking to scott rocks in just a minute but 1st a bit more about the tiff. it started quite small but over the years to run 2 has become one of the most important film industry hops this year it presents $333.00 films from $84.00 countries it's not on a festival so there's no international competition but that doesn't mean no major premieres and b. star was. good last year green book was screened it won the toronto audience prize and went on to pick up the best picture oscar. because it takes. this year tom hanks is one of the big names dropping in he stars in a m

felt that there was so much diversity over there which just wasn't the case in small confined east germany . foot's i think he was 14 or 15 when he repeated this feeling and i told him that i didn't think he would be able to do that because he wouldn't be able to get out of east germany if he said it out that closet and human sat shocked him and he replied by the time i'm grown up everything may have changed he still hoped at that age that the system could change and that he'd have more freedom as an adult of oxnard as one and for fy as i am kind. with all of us will send us in the in school fetishist i don't think he was aware that he was putting his life in danger at best he knew that it was dangerous because he could have been arrested as adults with us money enough to not want to slice. the couple of hours alone in an informal and for all to swim and the body was so pumped with adrenaline that you weren't scared and that scared to the extent that we considered the outcome that then actually occurred because all the things. inputs to process we just thought ok if they catch us they'll a

perfect book for paranoid times i've gotten him was a german author and poet back in communist east germany and the 2nd novel i approach the internal struggle struggles of a writer who is doubling as a spy for the dreaded east german secret police and that's of course the study to look at that somewhere there might be a record of you watching this video ok but what about those other sites you've been visiting. those sites today with the internet it's easy to get paranoid but surveillance is nothing new. in. the novel i was going his base is about mass as spinoffs well before the web it's about a country that these its own citizens as a potential threat and spies on them all it's not science fiction it's about east germany and its secret police force the sht ozzie and this was their headquarters. the narrator of the book is an east german poet and wished as he sends to berlin to spy on other authors he spends his days creeping around tunnels and cellars at night he attends the secret meetings of east berlin underground literary scene but he soon realizes there aren't just interested in what

its own citizens as a potential threat and spies on them all it's not science fiction it's about east germany and its secret police force the sht ozzie and this was their headquarters. the narrator of the book is an east german poet and wished as he sends to berlin to spy on other authors he spends his days creeping around tunnels and cellars at night he attends the secret meetings of east berlin underground literary scene but he soon realizes there aren't just interested in what he reports back about the others they're spying on him to. the goal of the service was to make everyone everyone without exception and to collaborators of this service and saying though this notion might sound so that all could be watched by all that was a security worthy of its name. the system voice gunnhild bush described as surreal and he should know the stasi spied on him for decades even though he fit the regime's ideal a working class author writing about workers' experiences but he wasn't cozy with the regime and that made him a suspect who left east germany before the wall fell but in the west he was an outs

what was life really like for people living in socialist east germany a new online archive featuring hundreds of hours of film realistic shot by ordinary people living under the dictatorship has just gone online and also coming up on arts and culture. the dangers of making art under the nazis one of the most celebrated novels written in post-war germany the german the us finally makes it to the big screen. and speaking of german the world famous october fast with at least one big twist this october fest with hundreds of thousands of visitors isn't in germany at all so where is it. first off though and summit look at life inside the former east germany a dictatorship that hundreds of people died trying to escape now though almost 30 years after the fall of the berlin wall initiators of a new project called open memory box say it's time to finally start looking at other aspects of east germany too. personal memories we coated in a country that no longer exists. these home movies capture assigned of the former germany that most outsiders never knew private recordings that are now public

what was life really like for people living in socialist east germany a new online archive featuringhundreds of hours of film reels shot by ordinary people living under the dictatorship has just gone online and also coming up on arts and culture. the dangers of making art under the nazis one of the most celebrated novels written in post-war germany the german basset finally makes it so the big screen. and speaking of german the world famous october fast with at least one big twist this october fest with hundreds of thousands of visitors isn't in germany at all so where is it. first off though and summit look at life inside the former east germany a dictatorship that hundreds of people died trying to escape now though almost 30 years after the fall of the berlin wall initiators of a new project called open memory box say it's time to finally start looking at other aspects of east germany too. personal memories we coded in the country that no longer exists. these home movies capture assigned of the full germany that most outsiders never knew private recordings that are now public thank

are forming a coalition with what used to be the communist government apart in east germany. just to prevent our- to avoid going into a collision with a fifty then i think democracy really is being stood stood on its head and it. interesting though it might be to see its within its head that's not something something i'd like it would also be hypocritical because quite frankly the a. f. t. is not worse than the left party and both. pseudo toted totalitarian the anti democratic anti western anti nato anti european parties i don't agree with that may i just come back to the question of reunification and the success of reunification valerie her in a has said that in many ways east and west absolutely have. integrated and converged but michelle if we look at surveys recent surveys we see significant divergence is in political attitudes for example one survey shows a great deal less support for democracy itself in the east than in the west. i think it's forty. 2% of east german said they are enthusiastic about democracy compared with 75% of west germans too what do you attribute t

it was 57 when he made his debut with this novel tells the history of east germany through the eyes of a family his own family. the author's alter ego alexandre hates growing up in the country his grandfather believes. he would never hear the rolling stones live would never see woodstock never even see west berlin with its new demos and student riots it's free love because between the small narrow world where he would have to spend his life and the other big wide world where real true life was lived there was a border and it was the one that he likes on their own it's our turn to have to guard. in times of fading light is about the failure of a whole country written without accusations or justifications read it if you want to understand what made people build communist east germany and why their dream was doomed to fail. the western german city of ball was looks big beethoven. where he spent a formative years of his life as a beethoven fast that and a featuring many of his works of course but then self was a great innovator so i'm sure he would have approved of the festival features co

reads a book called in times of fading light and intricate saga about family life in the former east germany. and we'll have a look at the beethoven fest in the great composers hometown of which got underway 10. bots we begin in canada a toronto international film festival because of the time of year it's held it is rather like venice before it considered a bit of a launch pad for the oscars so apart from all the usual independent films there's a few hollywood blockbusters getting their premiere in toronto as well i'll be talking to scott rocks in just a minute but 1st a bit more about the tiff. it started quite small but over the years too long term has become one of the most important film industry hops this year it presents $333.00 films from $84.00 countries it's not an a festival so there's no international competition but that doesn't mean no major premieres and the stars. look good last year green book was screened here it won the toronto audience prize and went on to pick up the best picture oscar. because it takes. this year trauma hanks is one of the big names dropping in he stars

they all left east germany that way. after several tense weeks in the west german embassy in prague. it was in september 1989 east germans were poor and into the embassy the building was quickly overwhelmed. many ended up camping out in the embassy grounds it was cold. santa spent 3 weeks here with his wife and 2 children new arrivals came in over the fence every day. for them. it never stopped raining the cut down board so you didn't have to walk through the mud the. tents wherever they could find a space where you can match was the tents were all crowded up against one another. then the fateful moment on the 30th of september west german foreign minister hans dietrich a arrived speaking to the refugees from the balcony his announcement that they could leave was drowned out by cheers. i. was. i didn't check promise that everyone in the embassy would be allowed to go to the west stand it was that and hurt him. while he was standing right here. at. this. point. it's all coming about his little. that same night santa and hi

the hero in communist east germany a socialist figurehead even learned by heart words the political had given him. no i didn't create my flight to the 30th anniversary of the founding of the german democratic republic that my socialist fatherland brought about. 25 years later the physicist took the pragmatic view of his greeting from outer space . because if you were given a task like that you can't save him before takeoff i won't say that but otherwise you've played it and besides that i was an officer we were raised that way it was all part of it today people talk differently. with a very small almost is another matter. the east german government used the space flight for propaganda purposes and presented it as a victory over west germany zeke when he was revered as a hero while the west german press downplayed the achievement after the fall of the berlin wall and worked for the european space agency organizing cooperation between western european and russian astronauts close ties to his hometown of morgan who took out and cons and northern germany home to the country's only space tra

the establishment of west and east germany in 1949 sealed the division of the country. became the provisional capital of west germany and the seat of its parliament. its fast freely elected members sat on these chairs. and you all know this tells us something about the 1st west german parliament. we got some of the original seats and created this display also the podium and lectern from which are no and others address the assembly element. we have some speeches about nuclear weapons which was a major issue back then and. i look at some and also lighthearted and even rowdy ones which show how parliamentarians sometimes let rip. important moments from east german history are also on display such as the uprising of $953.00 and the building of the bell and what. in the west soaring prosperity went along with burgeoning protest movements and alternative lifestyles. the v.w. camper van came to be an icon of the hippie era. estates. it stood for change. individual is i'm breaking with society one's parents and grandparents. and for the search for peace and freedom by. the fall

post from leipzig he sees things very differently he documented the collapse of the system in east germany and his pictures remind us of just how quickly german unification occurred and how it was rather like a surrender of the east. the west wasn't interested in learning from the east or taking anything over the citizens of the g.d.r. lost their jobs and the ground beneath their feet. you know that we ourselves no longer had any confidence in the east west german milk was better than east german milk same thing for sugar and the same for people as well. hordes of west germans swarmed in with their not always welcome cultural differences beauty pageants were banned in the g.d.r. but one took place just 2 months after the fall of the wall in leipzig as adama's. at the time i was shocked how a body could be exploited by capitalism who will be coming to list this for the up to 2 outs. when he said no it when i look at it today the photo seemed like an allegory of the downfall of the g.d.r. . the women made themselves beautiful and gave their all. and then a jury stupid dumb fat guys lots of c