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NATO General Secretary Anders Fogh Rasmussen visits the exhibition Mies van der Rohe Haus, night shot. Photograph: Stefan Meyer, exhibition7: Bernhard C. Striebel
August 13, 1961 and November 9, 1989 – the dates
of the construction and the fall of the Berlin Wall
structure this permanent exhibition on the history
of the Berlin Wall.
Permanent exhibitions
NATO – Mission for Freedom: The History of the
NATO From Its Foundation to the Present Day
The exhibition presents 120 plaques, with over
100 media stations and numerous original items,
illuminating the historical and political developments
in the post-war period and the background
to these developments.
Raoul Wallenberg Lives
The exhibition honours the Swedish diplomat who
rescued ten thousand Hungarian Jews from deportation,
but was suspected as a spy after the war
and retained in a Soviet Secret Police prison.
from 10.00 pm
Films
One, Two, Three
Director: Billy Wilder, USA 1961
Billy Wilder’s famous comedy, shot shortly before
the Berlin Wall was built
Night Crossing
Director: Delbert Mann, GB 1982
Film about the flight of two families in a homemade
hot air balloon over the border from Thuringia to
Bavaria
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vAn Der roHe HAuS
Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1932,
the Classical Modernist country house is now
used as an exhibition space for modern art.
exhibition
… und keine Nacht (... and no night)
Film installation by Michael Glowski
6.00 pm–2.00 am
Short guided tours, short film, discussion with the
artist (in German)
»… and keine Nacht« deals with the Landhaus
Lemke, today the Mies van der Rohe Haus. In the
short film the house becomes the resonating body
of a woman.
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