My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love
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Title
My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love
Subject
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.
Description
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.
Creator
Dmitri Vrubel, artist
Joachim F. Thurn, photographer
Source
Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F088809-0038
Date
1990
Rights
Copyright Bundesarchiv / Joachim F. Thurn
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Mural
Physical Dimensions
143.7 in × 189 in
Collection
Citation
Dmitri Vrubel, artist and Joachim F. Thurn, photographer, “My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love,” Public Art in East Germany, accessed October 21, 2026, https://charlottedc.net/cms/items/show/6.
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