1989 ? Globale Geschichten
1989 ? Global Histories
The Placemaking project at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt as part of the February 2009 exhibition ?1989 ? Global Histories?
1989 - GLOBALE GESCHICHTEN – Readings, discussions, interviews, music, radio, and an exhibition of international archive materials, photographs, films, and magazines.
1989 is a key year in the history of the 20th century. The Fall of the Berlin War was a caesura whose global consequences—it set off upheavals on every continent—can still be felt today.
Now, two decades later, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (founded in March 1989) has turned it attention to the global significance of this event. The Tienanmen square massacre in China, the death of Khomeini in Iran, the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan and its effects throughout central Asia, the end of dictatorship and the establishment of neo-liberalism in Latin America, the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola, the independence of Namibia, and the end of apartheid in South Africa—all these events took place in 1989.
Global Histories also considers the consequences of the fall of the wall for migrants and their children in East and West Germany. With six areas of concentration spread throughout the world, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt abandon a Eurocentric perspective and follows the complexity of events beyond national borders. The program invites its audience to hear the histories of 1989 in the varied voices of those whose biographies are bound up with the events: political actors, dissidents, artists, authors, thinkers.
Photogallery: Placemaking at "1989 – Global Histories"
