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Lookinout
The space around the monument and its usageAs early as 1986, Betina Kuntzsch would have had some alternatives for the monument: heroes or heroines with a human face – Rosa Luxemburg in a huge flower garden or Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space.
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Noble Prefabs
In July 1984, the first tenants moved into the Thälmann-ParkHardy Krause was one of the very first residents of Ernst Thälmann Park. As a passionate amateur photographer, he sneaked onto the construction site, photographed excavators and trenches.
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Irma’s Teddy
A possible biography of Irma ThälmannIrma rarely saw “Teddy” in the flesh. That’s what friends, supporters and comrades called her father.
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The coal palm
Vineyards – gasworks – ThälmannparkShort detour to the actual industrial age. The history of the “IV Berlin Gas Facility” in the district of Prenzlauer Berg, where vineyards and windmills had once stood.
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Flake
Growing up and everyday life in Prenzlauer BergBlack snow in summer. Seen through a child’s eyes, it’s just as beautiful falling from the sky as the white flakes in winter. The black snow was emitted by the gasworks.
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Prologue
The wrecking balls had grown weary. After the fall of the Wall, they had razed so many heroes of socialism. In 1993, Thälmann was due to be removed as well.
