20 Year Reunion – 21 Years Peaceful Revolution

Martin Hermann (ed.): Twenty years of peaceful revolution Jena, September 30, 2010. On Sunday of this year, the German reunification to the 20th anniversary time. On this occasion the publication of twenty years of peaceful revolution edited by Martin Herman published by Verlag IKS Garamond (Jena). Warsaw Berlin – Jena Leipzig”. 21 years ago the write events to the East Germany, as peaceful revolution “were announced, world history: after 28 years of bricks and barbed wire, the courage of hundreds of thousands of people led to the collapse of the rule of the SED and the unification of the two German States. A few days after the fall which was wall on 9th November 1989 from the reputation we are the people!”we are a nation!”. ” On June 19, 2009 by the Collegium europaeum Jenense (ANJALI) and the East German newspaper organized Colloquium of twenty years of peaceful revolution. Warsaw Berlin Jena Leipzig”, aim to remember the peaceful revolution and the fall of the wall in East Germany in 1989 and these events according to their international Importance to appreciate. This was the first and subsequent history of the turn of events by prominent witnesses such as Gunter Schabowski (former journalist, SED official and member of the Politburo of the cc of the SED in East Germany), Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk (historian), Adam Krzeminski (editor of the Polish magazine “Politika”), the writer Erich solves (Leipzig) and Udo Scheer (Stadtroda) as well as the witnesses Gerd Schuchardt (former Deputy Prime Minister and of Thuringia Minister of science), Albrecht Schroter (Mayor of Jena), Frank Schenker (Jena Mayor) as well as Ullrich Erzigkeit (editor-in-Chief of the OTZ) lit. These and other contributions have been in the present volume (ISBN: 978-3-941854-30-7) recorded. Annika Baldwin