For 28 years, the Berlin Wall divided the city and tore apart friends
and family. Comic book artists Susanne Buddenberg and Thomas Henseler
interviewed contemporary witnesses and recorded their stories. Five
authentic tales bring to life a past which, although not far away, seems
hardly imaginable now: A young woman tries to leave East Germany with a
fake ID card. A refugee is shot on the border, and no one can come to
his rescue. An entire family hides in an East German government building
near the Wall, hoping to flee from here into the West. A young man
covertly photographs the border fortifications and falls into the
clutches of the secret police. An East Berlin student ventures into West
Berlin and experiences the party of a lifetime.
"Berlin - A City Divided" also takes us to the original locations of
the stories: Friedrichstrasse Station, Bernauer Strasse, Wilhelmstrasse,
the Brandenburg Gate, and the former border crosssing in the Bornholmer
Strasse, where readers can search for remnants of the dramatic events.
With the financial support of the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship