Die Nacht, in der die Mauer fiel

November 9, 1989, went down in history: The mistakenly read announcement at a press conference of the East German government that travel to the West was possible immediately sparked a rush to the Berlin Wall that the border soldiers could not resist. After 28 years, the Iron Curtain opened. Those who did not sleep through the night the wall fell celebrated in the streets of Berlin. 25 authors from East and West reflect on that historic night. In personal texts written specifically for this book, they share what they experienced, what they felt, and how they remember it today. Featuring texts by Jürgen Becker, Marcel Beyer, Volker Braun, Friedrich Christian Delius, Durs Grünbein, Reinhard Jirgl, Katja Lange-Müller, Michael Lentz, Robert Menasse, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Katja Oskamp, Thomas Rosenlöcher, Kathrin Schmidt, Antje Rávic Strubel, Uwe Tellkamp, and Hans-Ulrich Treichel, among others.