My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love

Dublin Core

Titel

My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love

Thema

Mein Gott, hilf mir, diese tödliche Liebe zu überleben (My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love) a street art mural by Dmitri Vrubel in 1990 depicting Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev engaging in a fraternal kiss.

Beschreibung

Vrubel based this mural depicting Honecker and Brezhnev kissing on a photograph taken by Régis Bossu in East Berlin on October 7, 1979. Part of Berlin's East Side Gallery, it is painted on the East German side of the Berlin Wall as a reclamation of space. The title references Honecker's oppressive regime and East Germans killed at the wall, trying to escape it. It is likely the only public depiction of Honecker in the former GDR.

Urheber

Dmitri Vrubel, artist
Joachim F. Thurn, photographer

Quelle

Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F088809-0038

Datum

1990

Rechte

Copyright Bundesarchiv / Joachim F. Thurn

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Mural

Physical Dimensions

143.7 in × 189 in

Sammlung

Zitat

Dmitri Vrubel, artist und Joachim F. Thurn, photographer, “My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love,” Public Art in East Germany, accessed 21. Oktober 2026, https://charlottedc.net/cms/items/show/6.

Ausgabeformate

Geolokation

Embed

Copy the code below into your web page