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How we should deal with the trauma that people once suffered there? Berlin Wall — now down for as long as it once stood. The biggest challenge is where people are once again trying to live normal lives. Memorials take place in various forms. The question now is: That's a question that's under particular scrutiny in this exhibition. And that's why it was important to us architects to work with Marianne Birthler who grappled with the deconstruction of such mental walls for such a long time. Stasi investigator to curate German pavilion at Venice Biennale.

Birthler, you were once a civil rights activist in the former GDR, and later, you worked for the German federal government taking care of Stasi documents.

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What is your role in this project? My role is to consider the historical aspect. Another factor is that I, after having lived in the former GDR, have a different perspective. That means, I have always looked at the Wall from the other side as somebody who was "locked in" by it. I think that one of my most important tasks is to include this experience in the talks.

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And I have the impression that we can learn a lot from each other. The exhibition in the pavilion is titled "Unbuilding Walls. I think that's an experience from which the international community can also learn something. Countries that also had to overcome divisions, or nations and peoples that are still living within walls, are particularly interested in the German experience.

People there observe how we advanced the unification process because they hope that they can profit from our example. Like how do we deal with a totally destroyed civil society? How can we address the needs of the victims? What do we do with the perpetrators? How do we deal with mental walls? After all, they are more persistent than real walls. While fragments of division remain at the former Checkpoint Charlie, the space has become a major memorial to liberation.

Germans remember the night when the Berlin Wall fell. Architecture expresses how a society tries to heal such wounds. Architecture illustrates our attitude towards a city, and its past. A city is like an open book, or rather like a text that makes both past traumas and new hopes visible. In this regard, yes: Architecture plays a big role in all this, and should not limit itself to being analyzed in a formal fashion. From August to November , the Berlin Wall divided Berlin for 28 years, two months and 27 days. The Brandenburg Gate had long been the symbol of the division of Germany.

Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, , there was no passage here - that changed on December 22, Since then, Berliners have been able to walk unhindered through the landmark of their city again. It was located in front of the death strip and a second wall. Nowhere is the former "death strip" as vivid as it is here. An meter-long segment of the Wall, including a guard tower, has been reconstructed. The authentic border fortification complex serves as a central monument to the division of Germany. It pays homage to the victims who died or were killed at the Berlin Wall.

The Berlin Wall has disappeared almost everywhere in the city. East and West have now grown together. In the city center a strip of cobblestones marks where the Wall used to run. This border crossing is among the best-known sights in Berlin. Only foreigners and diplomats were allowed to pass through this checkpoint.


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In October , shortly after the Wall was built, there was a standoff here as armed Soviet and American tanks stood face-to-face. The situation very nearly escalated. It was a place of tearful farewells. Hundreds of people crossed this border post at Friedrichstrasse station when leaving East Germany for West Berlin. The former departure terminal now serves as a reminder of the forced separation of friends and families.

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Visitors can walk through an original cubicle where passports were checked and relive the border clearance procedure for themselves. This former Stasi prison has been a memorial to the victims of communist dictatorship since Visitors are informed about the detention conditions and interrogation methods in communist East Germany. Former inmates lead the guided tours. After World War II, this area was used to deposit debris. Rubble from the war was collected to form the Teufelsberg, the highest elevation in West Berlin. From here, military radio signals from the Warsaw Pact countries could be intercepted, monitored and jammed.

You might imagine that the exchange of captured spies only took place on the silver screen, but this bridge between Berlin and Potsdam was actually the scene of three such operations. Steven Spielberg used this historic place as a setting in his feature film "Bridge of Spies. He had conferences and lessons in various Universities and Public Institutions in Italy.

Sergio Los, forerunner of bioclimatic architecture, studied architecture at the IUAV in Venice, where he graduated in Working with Carlo Scarpa in his office and the University, in he published his first book on his work, Carlo Scarpa Architect Poet, followed by other books and articles on the thinking through figures that have appeared in Italy and abroad.

In parallel, the early sixties leads his professional career in Venice and Padua. In he founded, along with Natasha F. Pulitzer, "Synergia", a design activity committed in multi-scale architecture, construction and urban planning, research, training, event organization, with offices in Venice, Padua, Milan, Vicenza and Bassano del Grappa.

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In he received the European Award in Berlin Eurosolar his career. Architecture Guide ; Characters environmental architecture , Geography of Architecture From lives and works in Berlin as coordinator and professor of engraving at the Print Studio in Kunstlerhaus Bethanien. We produce gift articles in leather and 'marmorata' paper, as clipboards, phone rubricas, photo albums, table services, photo frames, notebooks, conference folders, cards with hand-printed 'capolettera'.

Every piece we create is unique, made by following a careful, traditional crafting. We create our articles by following the same methods and materials of an old tradition, with a bit of geniality. For our most special artistic book-bindings, we are supported by artistic marble, glass, silver crafters. We mainly work by-hand, helped by some antique machines, like first 's typographical presses, or trances for the press to warmth on leather.

In we started a new production for our environment, the production of artisting book-binding articles, experimenting new links between the typical craftings of Venice, and the traditional book-binding.

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We created, in this way, artistic objects never seen before in their kind, that today are often imitated, also by using modern or industrial tools. Jay Pather is a choreographer and director based in South Africa. Since freelance writer: Creative Writing - German. Austrian citizen since Cooperation with numerous festivals: Als Interpret von Musik des Jahrhunderts sang er u. The festival has slowly developed under his today's name MIAGI, "Music Is A Great Investment" to an important movement; musical education on a respectable base is offered to the youth of the country and international, intercultural projects are formed.

CDs among other things Preiser: Jens Barth is a computer scientist and visual artist who lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany. At present Jens Barth is working as a freelance artist, software developer and consultant. New Media Art Website: Graduated from one of the top Art Schools in the country, in he relocated to Venice, Italy, to study art of painting in depth.

His Art has been also published in numerous magazines and journals.

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Presently, he lives and works in Triest, Italy. Works include urban designs, installations and city interventions. This email address is being protected from spambots.