On a summer night in Istanbul, after a discussion about the Turkish communist writer Nâzım Hikmet on a terrace facing the Golden Horn. 54 years after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Passing by on a carpenter workshop late at night watching the wroker repairing old carpets at 1 am in the morning; long never ending nights of work in neon light. Ottoman Buildings scurry over in artifical lights….

In the early evening of November 9th, 1989 around 7:00 p. m. the central comitee secretary Günter Schabowksi mentioned incidentally at the end of a press conference that there is a policy decision about a new regulation of traveling for DDR-citizen.