Subject: Re: Film about Steinstücken
Date: Oct 09, 2004 @ 00:58
Author: L. A. Nadybal ("L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@...>)
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--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Doug Murray <doug@d...> wrote:
>
> I had a friend translate the listing for the film:
>
> Steinstuecken is an island that belonged West Berlin but was in the
> middle
> of the area of Potsdam - or better the DDR!
>
> The residents living there, lived in constant terror. Since 1952 170
> West-Berliners were isolated from the outside world. They had to take a
> 1km forrested road through the DDR with border control (NVA soldiers) to
> get to West Berlin.
>
> Gabriele Leech Ansprach lived there since the 20's and during her
> childhood she remembers Steinstuecken as a place of art & culture where
> many actors and architects lived.
>
> During the war it was a place of refuge for Berliners who had been
> bombed
> out of their homes. 9 years before the wall was built the East German
> (DDR) gov't sealed the island off. In order to protect the residents
> the
> US military stationed 3 military policemen on the island. Only these
> three men and the residents of Steinstuecken had access to the "island".
>
> In 1971 things improved when the US managed to get an agreement signed
> by
> the 4 powers to allow the building of a passage into Steinstuecken.
> Steinstuecken once again became a beautiful greenspace to escape to and
> the border control was eliminated after 20 years.
>
> ----
>
> Can someone in Germany tape this, and perhaps we can somehow see it?
> (No illegal activities suggested or mentioned ;) )
>
> Cheers!
>
> Doug
>
>
> On Friday, October 8, 2004, at 08:35 AM, chris schulz wrote:
>
> >
http://www.rbb-online.de/_/fernsehen/teaser_jsp/key=teaser_1168088.html
> >
> > it will be on the 11.11.2004 at 01.10h (is this time a joke?)
> >
> > Regards, chris
> >
> >
> ---
> A bad day in television is still better than a good day in a cubicle.