Die Mauer (June 15, 1961 - November 9, 1989)

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Students discover a significant part of Post- World War II history.

Contest:     Point your device or click at the code to win a certified original piece of the Wall   (October 30 - November 10)

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Aufgabe (Task):

Students prepare a 12 slide PowerPoint Presentation presenting one of the suggested topics below, or any other topic related to the Berlin Wall approved by their teacher. Each presentation must show proof of extensive research on the topic by covering detailed information supported by related graphics. Each presentation must begin with a title slide, and end with a slide containing all the sources used.

Themen (Topics) not in chronological order:

• The war is over, German resignation
• The Potsdam Treaty and the Division of Germany
• The Division of Berlin
• The Berlin Airlift
• The Uprising in Eastern Germany, June 17, 1953
• The Two Germanys rebuild in the 50ies (The Marshall Plan)
• 1961 The Wall goes up and the Iron Curtain goes down
• Families divided
• Transit travel restrictions
• June 1963 John F. Kennedy
• Wolf Biermann expelled from the GDR
• Victims of the Wall (Peter Fechter)
• Great Escapes
• Sign of Inner Resistance (The Prague Spring of 1968)
• The Trabi, symbol of progress, vs. the Beatle
• Ostrock vs. Westrock
• The Wall as topic in popular music (John F und die Gropiuslerchen, "Berlin, Berlin",  Udo Lindenberg, "Der Generalsekretär")
• The Peaceful Revolution
• The Wall comes down
• "Goodbye Lenin" , the Fall of the Wall in Film
• "Sonnenallee", "Die Mauer", "Das Leben der Anderen", the GDR in recent films
• "Ossis " and "Wessies"
• East German Food vs. West German Food
• Plattenbau und Modern Western Architecture
• Fashion Styles East and West
• Ostalgie (sic)

Evaluation Form

Click on the picture below to enter the contest

    click on the picture to participate in this year's contest    

The previous winners of the contest

Aaron "Tafka"  2009 FHS	Ben "Benjamin" 2010 FHS	Will  "Wilhelm" 2011 HHS	John "Johannes" 2012 HHS	Toby "Tobias" 2014 HHS	Giorgio & Daniel   2015 HHS

FHS WALL Graffiti Contest:

In order to celebrate the 20th/21st anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9, 2009/10, the German Club at Freedom High School held a Wall Graffiti Contest during the Spirit Week Carnival.

On November 9, 2011, a Wall Forum was held at Hibriten High School including eye witnesses' reports from the night of the construction of the Wall, Germany during the time of the Wall (East and West), the Fall of the Wall, and the time after the Wall. They will attend in person and also be transmitted by Skype. There will also be our annual Graffiti Contest.

On November 10, 2014, another Wall Forum was held at HHS, as well as a contest for a genuine, certified piece of the wall.

Idee & Design: Joachim Körner, Freedom/Hibriten High Schools, Morganton/Lenoir, NC, 11/24/2014