Looking at the “other side“, Berlin, around 1990
© Stadtmuseum Berlin | Foto: Leonore Schwarzer

Photos of the Wall

by Florenz Heldermann, Florenz Heldermann

Photographs by Leonore Schwarzer

Part 6

When the Wall fell on 9th November 1989, the fate of the wall inside Berlin and along the inner-German border was sealed. Between November 1989 and June 1990, Schwarzer drove along the former “death strip” almost every weekend and documented the dismantling of the border fortifications in a very personal way. These are images that she found both appealing and touching.
Wall playground, Berlin, around 1990
© Stadtmuseum Berlin | Photo: Leonore Schwarzer

Fragments, Berlin, around 1990
© Stadtmuseum Berlin | Photo: Leonore Schwarzer

Looking at the “other side“, Berlin, around 1990
© Stadtmuseum Berlin | Photo: Leonore Schwarzer
Watchtower with child, Berlin, um 1990
© Stadtmuseum Berlin | Photo: Leonore Schwarzer
Laundry drying by the wall, Berlin, 1990
© Stadtmuseum Berlin | Photo: Leonore Schwarzer

Wall cemetery, Berlin, 1991
© Stadtmuseum Berlin | Photo: Leonore Schwarzer

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