Borderland interests

http://wapedia.mobi/en/Museums_of_the_inner_German_border

http://europeforvisitors.com/germany/gdr-tourism.htm
http://europeforvisitors.com/germany/potsdam/lindenstrasse-54-55-memorial.htm

Niedersachsen/Sachsen-Anhalt border

Streesow/Schnackenburg/Gartow
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.museum-schnackenburg.de/

Museum opening times
May-Oct
Mon to Fri 10-17
Sat 13-17
Sun and Holidays 10-17

Mar-Apr
Mon-Fri 10-16
Sat-Sun 13-16

Easter
Good Friday: 10-16
Holy Saturday 13-16
Easter Sunday 10-16
Easter Monday 10-16

Landwirtschaftliches Museum Böckwitz mit Grenzausstellung
http://www.museum-boeckwitz.de/

sunday:     1 P.M. - 5 P.M.
mon-sat, holiday: by Agreement
Phone: 03900880045
E-mail: info@museum-boeckwitz.de
€ 2

Museum Burg Brome (closed 2009-2011)
http://www.museen-gifhorn.de/burgbrome/burgbrome_start.html
Geöffnet: März – 2. Advent
Mi – Sa 15 – 17 Uhr
Sonn- u. Feiertage 12 – 18 Uhr
Eintritt € 1,–

Junkerende, 38465 Brome
Telefon (0 58 33) 18 20
Schleswig-Holstein/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern border
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://grenzausstellung.de/&sl=de&tl=en

Tues, Thurs, Fri and Sun: 14.00-17.00

Priesterkate Büchen - Gudower Straße 1 - 21514 Büchen
Telefon: 04155/6141 - Fax: 04155/3941

the museum in Helmstedt and a preserved section of the border at Hötensleben
http://www.grenzdenkmaeler.de/

Tue 15.00-17.00
Wed 10.00-12.00 and 15.00-17.00

Thu 15.00-18.30
Fri 15.00-17.00
Sat and Sun 10.00-17.00
Monday closed

the former checkpoint on the A2 autobahn near Marienborn
http://www.aidan.co.uk/article_gdr_border_tour.htm

Berlin

1990 – The Path to Unification: An exhibition of the German Historical Museum
6 July 2010 - 10 October 2010 http://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/wiedervereinigung/index.html

Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin
Open daily 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Daily ticket for all exhibitions: 5 €

Leipzig/Halle

Naturkunde und Militärgeschichte der Dübener Heide gemeinnützige GmbH im Militaer-Museum Kossa
Dahlenberger Str. 1
04849 Kossa, bei Söllichau
22.50 €
http://www.bunker-kossa.de/
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,687920-3,00.html

Otjesd/Leaving

Otjesd/Leaving (2005)
15 min, color, sound

Otjesd (Отъезд) is a short film by Clemens von Wedemeyer, focusing on the immigration of Russians to Germany, an increasing phenomenon seen after the opening of the Berlin Wall and the changes in Eastern Europe. The 15 minute film is filmed in a single shot - and was shown as a continuum at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart - capturing "an imaginary scene of people waiting for visas in front of the German consulate in Moscow", with the camera follows a young woman trying to enter the building [UbuWeb, 2010]. The Russian dialogues in the original film are "not dubbed or subtitled, creating for the viewer an atmosphere of confusion and disorientation" and "the scene was shot neither at a consulate nor in Moscow, but in a forest near Berlin" [UbuWeb, 2010]. 

UbuWeb [2010] Clemens von Wedemeyer. [Online]
http://www.ubu.com/film/wedemeyer_otjesd.html [19/08/2010]

Shortfilm.de [2010] Clemens von Wedemeyer. [Online]

http://www.shortfilm.de/en/shortfilmszene/filmmakers/clemens-von-wedemeyer.html [19/08/2010]

8-bit Berlin

The 8-Bit Cities project was an attempt to make a city feel "foreign yet familiar" by combining together lo-fi world maps with GPS and other geographically accurate data available today, to provide abstract sense of scale,  urge for exploration and excitement [Camper, 2010]. The project was created on open source software, data packages and OpenStreetMap.

Camper, B. [2010] Why? How? [Online] http://8bitcity.com/map?London [16/08/2010]