The Fall of the Wall (eBook)

Hannes Bahrmann: Born in 1952 in Berlin, East-Germany, Hannes Bahrmann studied history and Latin American studies in Rostock, then went to work as a journalist for news agencies, newspapers and broadcast. He is the author of several books on Latin America, drugs and GDR politics. Christoph Links: Publisher and publicist; born in 1954 in Caputh/Potsdam in East Germany. He studied philosophy and Latin America studies from 1975–1980 at Humboldt University in Berlin. 1980–1986 he worked as an editor for the Berliner Zeitung newspaper, as book author and reviewer for the cultural magazine Sonntag. From 1986 on he was the assistant of the publishing director of Aufbau-Verlag Berlin/Weimar. After the abolition of censorship at December 1st in 1989 he founded one of the first private publishing houses in the GDR with a focus on politics and 20th-century history. He wrote books and articles about the political and economical changes in East Germany and in 2008 he received his PhD with the dissertation "Transfiguration of the East German publishing industry in the process of German unification".