Transparent oder Plakat-Bild " Flammenkopf"

“Head ablaze”Banner, 1989Up to a million people are said to have joined the demonstration on Alexanderplatz in Berlin on 4 November 1989. The posters and banners had many different slogans and imaginative content. The demonstrators wanted East Germany to change. Their main demands were for democracy and for leaders to be held to account. It was the largest demonstration in the course of the Peaceful Revolution in the GDR, and also the last before the Berlin Wall opened five days later.Among the many banners that day, this one without words is notable. It shows a young person whose hair is on fire, who appears to be moving from the darkness of the past into the light of the future. It conveys how someone might be set in motion, literally aflame with the urge to effect change. Its black, red and gold colours have stood for democracy movements in Germany since the early 19th century.The banner was designed for the demonstration on 4 November by the painter and graphic artist Wolf Leo, who also carried it that day. He describes it as an artistic interpretation of events in the autumn of 1989, and as a deliberate contribution to political protests “on the streets”.