They defied the Stasi and sparked a revolution. Our writer reveals the pivotal role East Germany's dynamic theatre culture played in the fall of the GDR " and the collapse of European communism Thirty years ago this coming Monday, a vast crowd of East Germans streamed into Alexanderplatz in then-divided Berlin to protest against the regime they lived under. The German Democratic Republic was crumbling around them. Er…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PM on November 1, 2019