This podcast episode dives into the complex history behind the Berlin Wall, as well as the pop culture, media, and various art pieces that came from it. It will be revealed how the wall evolved into a powerful cultural artifact through its influence on music, film, literature, and visual art. This episode will include fun facts about the wall and its influence on pop culture from the 1960s and onwards, even until 2025. Although the Berlin Wall was a symbol of the harsh division between East and West Germany, the two sides were connected in many ways. Some of those connections were protests through visual art and music performances that helped push the wall’s eventual collapse in 1989. This episode was researched and produced by Grade 12 Student Dani Taylor for her CHY4U World History RST. Sources used for this episode: Baker, F. (1993). The Berlin Wall: production, preservation and consumption of a 20th-century monument. Antiquity, 67(257), 709+. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A15143722/AONE? u=ko_k12hs_d46&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=0c16175f Berlin Wall Foundation. (n.d.). The Berlin Wall - The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/en/topics/berlin-wall Dimitriou, M. (2019, December 6). Dancing on the Berlin Wall | An Interview with Tracy Howe from Legendary Canadian Synth-pop Act Rational Youth. Post-Punk. https://post- punk.com/an-interview-with-tracy-howe-from-legendary-canadian-synth-pop-act-rational- youth/ Donovan, T. (2023, December 23). Romantic Melancholy Underneath the Guard Towers of the Berlin Wall: The Meaning Behind “Heroes” by David Bowie. American Songwriter. https://americansongwriter.com/romantic-melancholy-underneath-the-guard-towers-of- the-berlin-wall-the-meaning-behind-heroes-by-david-bowie/ Hoberman, J. (2015). ‘Escape From East Berlin,’ Reissued Five Decades Later. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/movies/homevideo/escape-from-east- berlin-reissued-five-decades-later.html Jones, P. (2021). The Art on the Berlin Wall: Sentiments of East and West Berlin. The Collector. https://www.thecollector.com/art-on-the-berlin-wall/ Fuka, P. (2018). Masaryk University Berlin Wall and Pop Culture. FACULTY OF EDUCATION Department of English Language and Literature. https://is.muni.cz/th/bhbhj/My_Bachelor_Thesis_Berlin_Wall_and_Pop_Culture.pdf? lang=en Loshitzky, Y. (1997). Constructing and deconstructing the Wall. CLIO, 26(3), 275+. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A19984489/AONE?u=ko_k12hs_d46&sid=bookmark- AONE&xid=4ba25141 Morgan, G. (2024, November 11). The 10 Most Iconic Murals on the Berlin Wall. Culture Trip. https://theculturetrip.com/europe/germany/articles/10-iconic-murals-on-the-berlin-wall Ross, C. (2004). East Germans and the Berlin Wall: Popular Opinion and Social Change before and after the Border Closure of August 1961. Journal of Contemporary History, 39(1), 25–43. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3180668 The Independent. (2022, February 25). Watch: The Simpsons 1998 episode brings Lenin back to life, Berlin Wall being resurrected. https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/culture/the- simpsons-1998-episode-brings-lenin-back-to-life-berlin-wall-being-resurrected- b2184579.html World History Commons. (n.d.). Gunter Schabowski press conference. https://worldhistorycommons.org/gunter-schabowski-press-conference