# 37 years after fall of Berlin Wall: How divided are Germans?

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/37-years-after-fall-of-berlin-wall-how-divided-are-germans/
- Published: 2026-11-09T13:59:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-09T14:53:30+00:00
- Original publisher: DW (publisher lean: Centre)
- Original article: https://www.dw.com/en/37-years-after-fall-of-berlin-wall-how-divided-are-germans/a-79877461?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
- Topics: Entertainment, Europe, Music, World

## Key points

- Many Germans still feel divided decades after reunification.
- Three artists recall different hopes and reactions to 1989.
- The article highlights uneven portrayals of East and West.

## Summary

Thirty-seven years after the Berlin Wall fell, many Germans still feel little sense of community across the former East-West divide. Three artists interviewed about their experiences describe how reunification brought freedom and change, but also disappointment, unease and lasting differences.

Writer Lea Streisand recalls the sudden replacement of East Germany’s system and says the pace was too fast for many people. Comic artist Anke Feuchtenberger had hoped for reform and greater freedom, and worried that consumerism and nationalism would overwhelm the movement’s creative aims. Photographer Simon Menner, who grew up in West Germany, says accounts of the East were bleak while overlooking the West’s own stagnation; the article also notes that his work has drawn on freely accessible Stasi archives.

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