Christoph Wilde: Hello Harald, welcome to our first interview this year. I've chosen one of your most famous photos from our archives which shows a group of flag bearers on Alexanderplatz in Berlin, escaping the rain. Back then this photo was published in Western Germany. 
© Harald Hauswald/OSTKREUZ
Do you remember its first publication?
Harald Hauswald: It was first published in the book Ost-Berlin ('East Berlin').
CW: Please tell us how the coffee-table book Ost-Berlin ('East Berlin'), which was published by Piper in 1987, came about and how the material made it to Western Germany?
HH: Peter Pragal from Stern and Hans-Jürgen Röder from Protestant Press Service transported the photos and Lutz Rathenow took care of the rest. Piper had already published a book of poems by Lutz and thus they easily agreed on publishing our book, too.
CW: How did you manage to publish photos in the media of a capitalist country?
HH: The situation in Berlin was special, a little bit more than a dozen West German journalists lived here and I had got to know some of them through work.
CW: Thank you Harald.
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Alexanderplatz
09.01.2010 | | "Radfahrer"
