Between Stockhausen/Zimmermann and Eisler/Dessau: The Italian Composer Luca Lombardi in the Two GermaniesCultural Exchange Agreement • June 10th, 2020
Contract Type FiledJune 10th, 2020The Iron Curtain was not as ironclad as captured by Churchill’s colorful and certainly appropriate verdict, and the Berlin Wall—erected more than fifty years ago as the most visible and ominous piece of architecture of the Cold War—was not as impenetrable, as minefields, watch towers, self-shooting mechanisms, and the orders to kill trespassers implied. But the traffic was largely one-sided—from West to East. Visits to the “other” side largely depended on what kind of passport one happened to have.