Thursday, January 29, 2015

Berlin Wall

This photo was taken by my friend Jennifer Davy.  She recently visited Berlin for work.  She took so many pictures that made me think about all the history and riots that have taken place there.  This wall was put up 1961 to cut off Berlin from East Germany. Finally, in 1990, most of the wall was taken down opening up Berlin to East Germany.

When I think about everything that has taken place here, I started to think why a play hasn't been written about the Berlin wall.   People died trying to escape East Germany trying to cross into Berlin during WWII.  Riots took place by the wall to get rid of this division. Now, Paintings run all across the wall telling different stories of what people saw here. The painting are there so we don't forget what happened there, and during WWII.