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If that sounds like dialectic, Radialsystem V is not out of place, physically. It is located in the Freidchshain District of former East Berlin, with its main street, Karl- Marx-Alee, running through it. It has been a rather poor area with a high unemployment rate, a habitat for students. I was going there to see a performance.
I started looking at the pictures on the walls. A young woman was looking at me. I asked if she was one of painters. She said she was in charge of organizing the event.
This show was by three painters, two women and one man. I met one of them, Eike Emsel, and she accompanied me as we saw her paintings. She was from a small town near Leipzig. I told her I especially liked a whimsical one that was in the Marc Chagall style. Her expression of modesty was in the form of saying “I have my own style." She gave me two postcards of her works. One was the picture that headlined tonight’s show as a poster.
It consisted of pictures of real people engaged in the protest demonstrations of May 1953, in response to the East German government’s recent decrees calling for more work and less money, which led to riots demanding the resignation of the government.
In the plaza fronting the building, under the ground seen through glass was a different tableau created after the unification.
I saw a massive mural painted in 1952 in the style of social realism, showing an ideal scene of happy people engaged in all types of work and civic activity.
The Wall itself had immediately become a target of souvenir hunters who chipped away parts. The government removed the rest, setting up protective barbed wire around the small segment left for viewing by tourists.
Unified Berlin remembers the East German regime in the contrast of two narratives on display at that regime’s bureaucratic center, called “The Ministry of Ministries.” Formerly the headquarter of the Nazi Air Force, this building was so solidly built that it was the only one which survived the war and could be used immediately. In the colonnaded entry hall of the building.
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