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The life in Germany after the reunification

In August 1961 the german Government start to construct a Wall that devided East and West Berlin. During this period a lot of people tried to escape but they all were captured by the German Border Police. So Berlin became an isolated part of Germany. Then it was the 9^th of November in 1989 when the great wall of Germany was gone and the government declared that the border is open. Although many Germans left East Germany before the wall came down and escaped from the cities around, through Poland or Czech Republic. For example my uncle left before the wall was gone and tried to get away to the south. So the reunification was at first a great thing, because the people could leave East Germany and start over in a different city.

At first me and my family went to my grandmother’s house for two or three nights and after that went to a kind of relocation camp next in Bavaria. I can remember exactly one sentence I told my mother when we arrived: “I am not sleeping in here mom with all these strange people!!!” However, after we stayed there for two nights we left to the south of Germany in a city which is called Ludwigsburg. We met some friends over there who left East Germany, too. My Family, I and these two friends moved for one week in the same hotel and both family’s searched for a new house. However we couldn’t found any house or apartment for us. So we moved on in another hotel next to this city for nine months, before we found our new house where we currently live. In that city I went to the kinder garden and my big sister to school. It was a hard life during this time, especially for my sister, because she left all her friends in the East. I was just five years old, so for me it wasn’t that hard. Nevertheless it was hard time for the whole family, all this moving around and looking for a place and also to find a job for my father. As a result, the reunification effected that my family and my moved around a lot before we settled down in the south of Germany finally.

We settled down in a city called Oberstenfeld where our new house was. My sister changed the school and I had my first school day at this time. So I met a lot of new friends, like my big sister and we both we’re happy at this point because we forgot about that what had happened earlier in our lives. Nonetheless the job situation for my father was a kind of difficult, because all the people from East Germany we’re searching for a job in the west of Germany. However my uncle has been working for a company after he came back from the prison in 1990 and moved with my aunt to the south. So he was the person who found out a job for my father. But if you want to have a job in that part of Germany, you have to work hard all the time. As a result, my father was working hard and became an employer in this company that builds kitchen for restaurant and hotels. While he was working the most of the time, my mother took care of my sister and me. She starts her career later as a tax counselor. And now she is very successful and is working by herself. As a result my family and me are happy that we survived this event, in addition we all got a job and we are all healthy. To start over a kind of new life was sometimes not easy. However we finally found everything that we need to settle down and to go on with our lives.

Therefore the reunification was actually a good event for Germany and the government, however for a lot of people it was a hard time to go through and to find a new job and also a new house or apartment. In addition, most of the people started a “new life” like my family and that was not easy for anybody. Nevertheless, this event will be a part of my life forever.