It’s the ninth of November! Woohoo! Everyone, dance and celebrate this awesome day as we …

Wait, what? What you’re supposed to celebrate? Ah, right … Well it’s the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, even the twenty-fifth one this year. And it’s always important to remember that this date is also known as “Schicksalstag der Deutschen” (“destiny-day” of the Germans) because some other stuff happened during the past two centuries that is considered important in not only German, but also international history – some of them not in a positive way. Like the execution of German revolutionist Robert Blum in 1848, the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 and the Kristallnacht in 1938. But also good things like the end of monarchy in Germany in 1918 and – of course – the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

So why am I posting this entry in my media blog? Well, there are two songs that are considered as having some connection to the fall of the wall ever since that event and the things that followed in the weeks and months after it.

The first is “Looking for Freedom” performed by David Hasselhoff. Here, you might listen to it in really bad quality. He sang it there at the Brandenburg Gate on Sylvester that year.

http://youtu.be/0zXiClnK8oE

And there’s “Wind of Change” by the Scorpions, which is also considered a song that has to do with not only the German situation at that time, but also with the whole fall of the USSR and the entire change of the world thing and the end of the Cold War.

http://youtu.be/7axdhBYkD4s

So, there you have some music and don’t forget to remember your German friends about the importance of this day in our history.

But don’t be surprised if you get mixed reactions – the whole reunification thing is seen as pretty badly executed here in Germany. (But don't tell that the politicians!)