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Marionettes and Memory

Posted by: Nicholas Farrell Tags: Berlin Wall, Germany, reunification, street art Posted date: October 14, 2009 | No comment

Starting with Reunification Day and culminating with the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German capital is this month scene to celebration and remembrance.

France’s Royal de Luxe, a theatre company specialising the staging of massive street shows, came to town the first weekend of October and had the city mesmerized with its telling of a reunion tale between a family previously separated by the city’s dividing wall.

Story and photos from David Pescovitz, via Boing Boing.

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Nicholas Farrell
Nicholas Farrell comes on board as the Teutonic Correspondent for Contrarian Media, LLC, or as it is called here in the Federal Republic, 'Entgegengesetzt Medien, GmbH.' An amateur linguist and speaker of three-plus languages, Herr Farrell is an educator with an M.A. and a music maker with many instruments.

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