Word: alexanderplatz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...double-barreled concert was to have been the feature attraction of a daylong festival celebrating the 28th anniversary of East Germany's birth as a Communist state. In one corner of East Berlin's huge Alexanderplatz, a Western-style rock group, Express Berlin, was performing before several hundred rapt young people. At the opposite end of the square, a Russian military band tootling patriotic marches competed unsuccessfully for the crowd's attention. Suddenly, the cacophony erupted into violence...
...trouble began when several rock fans tumbled down a poorly covered ventilator shaft on the Alexanderplatz. Clearing the way for rescue teams, police ordered the rock band to stop playing but permitted the Russians to continue their concert. Enraged, the youngsters attacked the police Hurling bottles, sticks and planks and smashing the windows of surrounding buildings, the crowd howled, "Biermann, Biermann"-referring to Poet-Balladeer Wolf Biermann, one of many dissident East German artists and intellectuals who have been forced into exile (TIME, Oct. 3). More menacingly, the rioters began to chant, "Russians out! Russians out!" East German officials were...
...dull gray streets and squares of the most rigidly doctrinaire Soviet-bloc country in Europe last week looked more like Watkins Glen than East Berlin. Along broad Karl-Marx-Allee strolled long-haired young men and women from every continent, laughing and singing. In the big fountain on Alexanderplatz, young people waded, danced and kissed. Their joy was punctuated by the loud beat of dozens of rock combos and brass bands and the music of choral groups...