(10 Aug 2001)

Berlin, Germany - August 8, 2001
1. Driving shot of Berlin wall
2. Medium shot Berlin TV tower with wall
3. Pan Sabine Sprengel with husband walking at former wall line
4. SOUNDBITE: (German) Sabine Sprengel, Former East Berlin Resident
"August 13th 1961 had a deep influence to my life. I went to school in West Berlin but lived in East Berlin . I could not finish my school because I went to a school of commerce in Wedding, where I had to study for another year. The result of the situation was that I had to work from September on as an assistant helper at the hospital at Berlin Prenzlauer Berg.."
5. Medium shot of part of the wall in Berlin
6. Pan from former east part to former Western part of the Wall
7. SOUNDBITE: (German) Sabine Sprengel, Former East Berlin Resident
" I needed ten years to get out of the country. On 15th of January 1971 the government of the Federal Republic of Germany has payed an amount of money to the former GDR so that I could leave the country to West Berlin. It was a great feeling to pass the border check point "Traenenpalast" and to see him from the back instate of from front site."

Berlin, Germany - File 1971
8. Various of watchtowers and fences

Berlin, Germany - August 8, 2001
9. Pan former wall at the Potsdamer Platz to new buildings
10. Zoom out building at the Potsdamer Platz to former watch tower
11. Medium shot watch tower with new building at Potsdamer Platz
12. Pan wall to Potsdamer Platz
13. Set up shot Wolfgang Schulz walking at the wall park in Berlin
14. SOUNDBITE: (German) Wolfgang Schulz, Former East Berlin Resident
"We tried to find a way to west Berlin. We were thinking about what we could do. We had incredible ideas for example to escape via a subway underground but we rejected this possibility. Later we decided to build a tunnel at the area were we lived."
15. Medium shot Berlin wall at the wall park
16. SOUNDBITE: (German) Wolfgang Schulz, Former East Berlin Resident
" On April 20th we started to build the tunnel. The tunnel was supposed to reach a length of 60 meters, but after having built 55meters our project was discovered."
17. Man walking with dog at the Berlin wall
18. Watch tower surrounded by new houses


STORYLINE:

The construction of the Berlin Wall began on August 13, 1961.

It was a result of the cold war, when the communist government of Germany's eastern sector decided to construct a barrier to the arrest the advance of capitalism.

The city was torn in two, East and West.

Families were separated, lives turned upside down.

Sabine Sprengel was 17 years old when German soldiers started to set up
the wall.

On a sunny Sunday neighbors were ringing at her door saying that right beside her house soldiers are setting up barricades.

SOUNDBITE :(German)
"August 13th 1961 had a deep influence to my life. I went to school in West Berlin but lived in East Berlin . I could not finish my school because I went to a school of commerce in Wedding, where I had to study for another year. The result of the situation was that I had to work from September on as an assistant helper at the hospital at Berlin Prenzlauer Berg.."
SUPER CAPTION: Sabine Sprengel

In 1962 when East German soldiers were setting up another border check point between East and West Berlin, Sabine Sprengel was got arrested while walking close to the new check point at Heinrich Heine Strasse in Berlin.

Accused of trying to leave East Germany she was sentenced to 4
months in prison.

After being released she applied to leave the country.

SOUNDBITE : (German)











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