Discover a new side of Germany’s great capital – Berlin – visualized by a woman that grew up surrounded by a wall. Sarah Hidden’s pictures not only portray the Berlin Wall and its historic moments, but also urban art with hidden messages. They reveal heroic people and tell us about their destiny. They tell the story of a divided country personified by the TV animated character “Sandman”. They show the colorful wall that a little girl in West Berlin saw day after day and the black and white that came with it on “the other side”. They tell the story of a Guardian Angel watching over the people of Berlin and Goethe’s mythical Erlkönig hiding and whispering behind the trees and bushes of the Tiergarten, the city’s great park. They show products from East and West Germany and people’s desire to have them. They talk about a revolution, masses of people coming together shouting out loud “We are the people” – people fighting for their rights even though at the time they feared hard punishment by the state. And finally, they also show the new, reunited Berlin with street art shouting out political messages.
