Download or read book Awakening '89 -- Notes on Culture and Politics written by Heinz-Uwe Haus and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of documents, political speeches as well as academic articles, by the internationally admired theater director, Heinz-Uwe Haus, reflects positions and actions, which he shared with the majority of the people in his country during the fall of the Wall and the re-unification of the German nation. The reader is reminded of the sheer joy of the peaceful revolution in autumn of 1989. The texts reflect how millions of people reclaimed their basic human freedoms, ending not only the post-WWII division of the country, but de-legitimizing the concept of socialist rule.