Another busy day in the streets of Berlin, we visited the great “Berlin Wall” and its street exhibition of paintings. Again, it was really interesting to see and experience in real time this remaining symbol of suppression for so many people back in the Cold War era and get a taste of what artists’ feelings were just by looking at the graffiti’s’ at it.
Then, we had the visit at the Kino cinema, where we learned about its story by its owner and some more things about life in Berlin. The film about the secret police Stasi and the secret terror prison in the GDR era was of great importance for me and gave me some insight in Berlin’s political life back in 1950’s. Personally, I was genuinely fascinated by the role of Ulrike Meinhof, the journalist who made a difference being the voice of the suppressed by the government people. Even though the movie was not much self-explanatory and I had to search online names, political organizations and facts, I could tell that at first, I really liked the way she was standing up for the freedom of her people in her country. But eventually, she got into the deep fighting against dictatorship with the rebels, being part of criminal actions, which made me wonder, how is this ethical for a journalist? I believe that it is everyone’s right to fight for their ideals and this case was about a dictatorial government imprisoning, torturing and even killing innocent people in the streets and in many cases has been proven historically and ethically right to fight for them, but how can a journalist keep his professional identity intact and being part of such activities at the same time? So, the journalistic learning-point of the day for me was to think more about it and maybe draw my red lines on such cases.