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Twenty years ago, a question posed by Italian journalist Riccardo Ehrmann prompted an East German official to say the words that triggered the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now new facts have emerged that shed a different light on that fateful press conference...
...press conference hosted by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) on Nov. 9, 1989, was about to come to an end when Ehrmann, who worked for the Italian news agency ANSA, inquired about the new travel law for East German citizens. Gunter Schabowski, a ruling party official, replied by announcing the introduction of new regulations that would make it possible for the people of the GDR to travel abroad. When will this take effect?" a voice from the auditorium demanded. Schabowski, after taking a quick look onto his notes through his frameless glasses, haltingly replied: "That...
...notion that the end of the old German Democratic Republic, as East Germany was properly known, was an accident triggered by a journalist's spontaneous question has now been challenged. In an interview with the German regional public broadcaster MDR Riccardo Ehrmann, 79, who last year was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit by the German government, revealed that a ruling party official had called him before the press conference urging him to ask about the new travel...
...With a personal fortune estimated at around $119 million, Ehrmann owns about 1,500 pieces of art. He has contributed $12 million toward building a contemporary art museum in Lyons, which will open in early 2003. Called L'Organe (after the medical term organ), it aims to be the first to make the Internet an organic part of a museum from the very beginning. Says Ehrmann, "Art belongs to all humanity...
...also finds ways into Ehrmann's thinking. He says that high tech is in a "medieval period," likening the information explosion brought about by the Internet to the revolutionary transfer of oral knowledge to written text by monks working in quiet surroundings. To give himself and his 90 local employees a similarly reflective environment, he is building a subterranean office - not far from the helipad...