This autumn marks the 20th anniversary of the events of 1989. On this account and in the context of their joint project "European Borderlands", the Allianz Cultural Foundation and the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin invited authors from different European countries to Berlin. In a public event, they focused on the European turn of an era and therefore especially discussed the importance of authors.

The invited authors are persons who are contemporary witnesses of the separation of East and West and of the reunification. Their experiences range from the Fall of the Wall and the end of the Iron Curtain to the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union: Volker Braun, György Dragomán, Jaroslav Rudiš and Olga Tokarczuk. The event began with a reading of texts from 1989 of Volker Braun. Then, the authors discussed the Fall of the Wall and the subsequent political, social and cultural changes in Europe.