The soundtrack of our lives
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| free admission |
| German |
| Mechanical Arena in the Foyer |
| Part of: Palace Bar |
| Belongs to: Blown Away: The Palace of the Republic |
Music accompanies us through life. Probably everyone associates a certain event with a particular piece of music that triggers memories and feelings. In addition to its private significance, music is also a seismograph for social moods and changes.
In the last ‘Palastbar’ for the time being as part of the programme for the exhibition Blown Away: The Palace of the Republic, DJ Gabriela Braden-Becker asks about the soundtrack of our lives. She has asked around among her friends and acquaintances for life songs and invites the audience to bring along their favourite tracks on vinyl or other sound carriers and tell the story behind them. She contributes her own experiences and spans an arc from the joie de vivre and rebelliousness of the 70s to the banning of songs and bands in the 80s, the disillusionment and disappointment and leaving the GDR to new hidden or open protest against the stink of the Politburo and its authorities to the end and new beginning at the beginning of the 90s in a reunified Germany.
The Palace Bar is the format for informal discussions and artistic interventions. It combines debate and art around the theme of the Palace of the Republic. Scientists meet writers, musicians meet publicists and music meets sparkling drinks.
Participants
Gabriela Braden-Becker was a DJ in East Berlin and Brandenburg in the late 70s and early 80s. In 1979, she and three other female disc entertainers, as they were known in the cultural jargon of the authorities, played at the Palast der Republik. In the 80s, she worked at DT 64, the youth radio station of Berlin Radio.