Year (field_media_year)
Period:
  • They – The solidary

    1989
  • They – The solidary

    1983
  • Thomas (Thomas Stodieck – Stodieck‘s bookshop), 1985

    Bookstore and more ... The first Polish bookshop in West Germany after the war (1978–1990). It was also a trading hub for smuggled books – in both directions. The sale of independent underground press...
  • Michał (Michael Sielewicz). 1984

    Surgeon, photographer, traveller, sailor, author. Between 1982 and 1983, on his own initiative, he organised and sent 17 transports to Poland containing medicines and medical equipment worth DM 1.5 mi...
  • Maciek (Maciej Gebel), 1983

    Trainer. He worked in West-Berlin with the Solidarność working group and the Workers’ Defence Committee (Komitet Obrony Solidarności – KOS). Friends with Giorgio Caroti, the owner of the legendary jaz...
  • Ludwik (Ludwig Mehlhorn, 1950–2011), 1985

    Mathematician. Civil rights activist in the GDR. From the end of the 1970s, he maintained contact with the Polish Catholic community and with people involved in the Workers’ Defence Committee (Komitet...
  • Edward (Edward Klimczak, 1944-2011), 1983

    Russian and English scientist. Publisher. Lecturer at the Free University of West Berlin. Founder of the Solidarity Defence Committee / Solidarność Society. Active supporter of "Fighting Solidarność" ...
  • Achim (Joachim Trenkner) – Radio Free Berlin, 1982

    Journalist. Together with the television crew from SFB, he accompanied the “Aid for Poland" in the fervid months of 1981–1983.
  • Thomas (Thomas Stodieck – Stodieck‘s Buchhandlung)

    Bookstore i coś więcej ... Pierwsza – po wojnie – w RFN Polska Księgarnia (1978 - 1990). Była miejscem przerzutu bibuły – w obie strony. Ze sprzedaży niezależnej podziemnej prasy i wolnych wydawnictw ...
  • Waltraut & Wanja, 1983

    Waltraut Kerber-Ganse – Social worker. Lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin. Together with Wanja Ronge, her friend at the time, she organised and sent more than 20 transports to Poland conta...
  • Lilka (Helena Bohle-Szacki, 1928–2011), 1997

    Artist. Pedagogue. She organised the shipment of printed materials, foodstuffs and medicines to Poland. Awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
  • Basia (Barbara Nowakowska-Drozdek), 1982

    Theatre academic. Pedagogue. Research assistant at the University of  Łódź until 1981. Co-founder (with Krzysztof Kasprzyk) of the first pro-Solidarność organisation in the FRG – of the Solidarność wo...
  • Brandenburg Gate on 10 November 1989

    View from West Berlin.
  • In the West of Berlin, 1983

    Good Morning ...
  • Сапожник – Shoemaker

    Advertising brochure in the East of Berlin. Central Berlin / city centre, January 1990.
  • In the East of Berlin

    Central Berlin / city centre, January 1990.
  • Berlin Neukölln

    Summer in the City (West), 1982
  • Kreuzberg. Near Oberbaumbrücke. View towards East Berlin 1985

    Signs inform you that the Spree (waterway) belongs to East Berlin.
  • Berliner Mauer, 1983

    And six years later …?
  • Berlin Tiergarten

    The annual parade for Allied Forces Day on the Straße des 17. Juni 1982