Across the Baltic Sea to freedom

Border and escape stories

They paddled, sailed, surfed, swam, built submarines and aqua scooters. They used ladders and crampons to overcome barriers - fugitives across the Baltic Sea and Lake Dassow.

Today, it is more important than ever to remember what it meant to live in a dictatorship like the GDR. In this lecture and reading, historian Christine Vogt-Müller recalls people who refused to let their will to freedom be broken and dared to flee across the wet border. In doing so, she sheds light on the Baltic Sea and Dassow Lake border regime.

The author reads from her books "Hinter dem Horizont liegt die Freiheit" and "Über die Baltic Sea in die Freiheit" (co-author). She will illustrate her remarks with photos, documents and eyewitness accounts.

We invite you to this lecture by historian and author Christine Vogt-Müller.