Anna Loos has her own personal story of flight from the GDR. As one of the most well-known actors and singers to emerge from the country, she grew up in Brandenburg an der Havel, before fleeing to the Federal Republic of Germany via Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Austria in 1988, aged seventeen. Loos took singing lessons from a young age and performed with various bands. In 2005 she took up the mantle of Tamara Danz as the singer of one of the GDR’s most popular music acts, East Berlin rockers Silly. Anna Loos released her first solo album – “Werkzeugkasten” – in March 2019, from which she will sang “Mut von Helden” (“Courage of Heroes”) and “Ich will dass du weißt” (“I want you to know”) at the Brandenburg Gate.

The East Berlin band of singer, lyricist and composer Dirk Zöllner has been a regular fixture on the German music scene in various constellations since the mid-1980s. Die Zöllner first performed as a big band in 1988, when they opened for James Brown in Berlin Weißensee to an audience of 70,000 spectators. Their song “Viel zu weit” (“Much too far”), which was performed at the stage show, was penned in the same year. Decades later, Die Zöllner are still making waves in the German music scene with their soulful ballads and funky jazz.

Kikelomo is a London born, Berlin based DJ and Radio Presenter. She is actively pushing diversity and inclusion in the music industry. Her high energy sets are packed full of everything from grime, garage, techno and hip hop to funky house and bass. She was the opener for the internationally renowned CTM Festival with her set in Berlin’s prestigious Berghain/Panorama Bar.

She took part in the After Show and is a member of the initiative “No Shade”, a club night series and DJ training program for female, trans and non-binary DJs based in Berlin.

On 9 November 2019 one of the world’s best-known and most renowned orchestras performed at the Brandenburg Gate – the resident orchestra of the Berlin State Opera, Staatskapelle Berlin, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim. Accompanied by historical images and film footage, the performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 on this evening was an invitation to reflect on the history of the Wall – from its construction to the years of division and its fall in 1989.

Born Maximilian Lenz, WestBam is one of the most important DJs and electronic musicians in Germany and made a considerable contribution to the success of the Loveparade. Defining the sound of Berlin’s techno and electro scene in the early 1990s, WestBam co-founded “Mayday”, Germany’s largest indoor rave, which was first held in Berlin on 14 December 1991, with the support of the former East German radio station DT64. WestBam’s music was the sound of the wild reunited Berlin of the 1990s, with its countless techno clubs, and it still is today.

“Friedliche Revolution” revolves around a group of seekers through the ages: From the stormy autumn to the deadlock in winter, the dawn in spring to summer. If you listen carefully, you will discover how these soliloquy conversations spread to an open discussion about the hope for the removal of all walls for all people. Gustav Rueb stages the text by Patrick Schneider with a multilingual ten-part ensemble from Berlin.

Bad Juju is a Polish born, Berlin based visual artist, art director and VJane. She is striving for diversity and inclusion in the music industry. For the collective club nights, she creates colourful live visuals, most recently for a showcase in the renowned C/O Berlin, as part of the exhibition “No Photos on the Dancefloor”. She draws inspiration from video games aesthetics, virtual reality and cartoons.

She took part in the After Show and is a member of the initiative “No Shade”, a club night series and DJ training program for female, trans and non-binary DJs based in Berlin.

Jutta Seidel was a co-initiator of the New Forum (Neues Forum) and, together with Bärbel Bohley, submitted the official application to register this new political movement in the GDR. She was born in Brandenburg in 1950 and first engaged in civil society activism in 1982 as a co-founder of the independent network “Women for Peace” (Frauen für den Frieden). She played an important role in the events of the Peaceful Revolution, not least of all as a co-initiator of the largest protest rally in the history of the GDR, which was held on 4 November 1989 on Alexanderplatz. Following this, Seidel continued her political work as a member of the East German Round Table (Zentraler Runder Tisch) and its working group on security.