On Tuesday, old trabant cars will set off on a symbolic drive to freedom to mark the 25th anniversary of the escape of thousands of East German refugees from the West German Embassy in Czechoslovakia. It was trabants and wartburgs that most frequently served as the means of transport for unsatisfied citizens of East Germany when travelling to Prague to get to the West with the help of the Embassy.
The Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs of that time Hans-Dietrich Genscher, who announced the happy news to the refugees, the present minister Frank-Watler Steinmeier, and the Saxon Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich will be present to remember the 25th anniversary of the first trabant leaving from the embassy to the West. In the end, in total of approximately 4,000 East German citizens left the country in the same way.
The Goethe Institute in Prague will also remember the time of the lack of freedom in East Germany with a projection of original photographs from the archives of the East German Secret Police Stasi and with the Parallel Lives Festival.