Fall of the Wall

In commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall (and the Iron Curtain), I am currently reading the Words Without Borders anthology The Wall in My Head.  Published in 2009 by Open Letter Books, it's been sitting in my to read pile for nearly a year. The selections are from many Eastern Bloc countries and authors and there are translations from several languages (including German). It includes a selection from Peter Schneider's The Wall Jumper which I read back in 1983 when it was first published in English. Nice to revisit one of my favorites.

I am also working on writing up one of my own memories from the 1980s concerning a day in East Berlin. I'll try to complete it this month. Notes! Where are my notes?

Online reading:
The fall of the Berlin Wall: what it meant to be there  by Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian web site. Memories and musings on the fall of the Wall and it's meaning from an eye-witness.

Berlin’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Part 1 by Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi, The Paris Review web site, November 6, 2014 (part 2 to be published November 7, 2014). Discussion of Karl-Marx-Allee, then and now. With photographs.