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For one week in November 2019, from the 4th to the 10th, Berlin told the story of its Peaceful Revolution on the buildings where it happened. The festival "30 Jahre Friedliche Revolution – Mauerfall" ('30 Years Peaceful Revolution') marked three decades since 1989 and the fall of the Wall (1989–2019), and more than a million people came to "remember, celebrate and pay tribute to those who fought for freedom during the Peaceful Revolution". Kulturprojekte Berlin commissioned it, and URBANSCREEN produced the shows, one of the major projects in the studio's history.
Six historically significant sites got six stories and six graphic languages: the Humboldt-Forum, the Gethsemanekirche, Alexanderplatz with the Alexander- and Berolinahaus, the Europacenter, the East Side Gallery and the former Stasi headquarters. Each night the shows closed with a sound collage of Berliners today, answering questions such as "What does it mean to be brave?", "Why and how do people protest today?" and "What do we long for nowadays?"
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Behind it stood a large team. URBANSCREEN worked with INVR.SPACE GmbH on motion graphics and with Lynx Media Systems GmbH on the technical implementation; Daniel Rossa led the art direction, Lydia Liedtke the dramaturgy and research. I (Moritz Richartz, Xenorama) was one of the motion graphic designers at URBANSCREEN, together with Julian Hölscher, Ana Cristina Romão and Moritz Horn, while Philipp Wenning and Sönke Kirchhof designed at INVR.SPACE. More on URBANSCREEN's project page, at Kulturprojekte Berlin and in the making-of video.
