Video installation in the studio at the visitor center
The video installation portrays nine people who were born in 1975. They grew up in the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany, and thus under fundamentally different political and social conditions. When the Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989, they were 14 years old. This historic upheaval occurred at a time in their lives when they were transitioning from childhood to adulthood.
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Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer
What did the fall of the Wall, German reunification and the changes of the following years mean for the course of their lives?
About the artists, the concept and its realisation
Ina Rommee works as a video artist, Stefan Krauss as a filmmaker. Together, as KRRO Film, they produce life-story interviews, documentary films and video installations. Their work focuses on people whose experiences are often given little voice in public and media debates. The idea for the ‘Generation 1975’ project was developed by education researcher Dr Christiane Bertram (University of Tübingen) in collaboration with Stefan Krauss and Ina Rommee.
A video installation by KRRO Film and the Hector Institute for Empirical Educational Research
In cooperation with the Berlin Wall Foundation, the Coordinating Office for Contemporary Witnesses and the Centre for School Quality and Teacher Training (ZSL)
Funded by the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship
Additional information
Opening hours:
Visitor Centre
- Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am – 6 pm
Please note
The cinema in the Visitor Centre may be closed due to in-house events. For the latest information, please call +49 (0)30 213085-123.
Due to events, the cinema in the visitor centre will be closed all day on 5 August and 10 September 2026.
Opening hours on public holidays
- Open as usual
