Wolfgang Lettl painted the picture "The Scream" in June 1989, in his second home in Puglia. This is a further development of the "Prometheus" image of the "Gray Series".

First of all, he hits the massive clay-colored torso, with clumsy hands reaching up for help and his facial expression twisted in pain. It split in the chest area and a white bird flew out. The three bars inside the torso still give the impression of a cage or of being locked up.

The male torso is on the shore of a body of water, on which there are several boats, each with a figure inside. People kneeling or sitting in boats are blindfolded with black cloths and are intent on calming themselves with the surface of the water. There is a menacing and dark atmosphere in the sky.

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Against the backdrop of contemporary history, this picture can be seen as a turnaround, peaceful revolution and the end of the GDR.

The bust became fragile from the inside out due to the people wanting freedom. With the symbolic cutting of the Hungarian barbed wire fence by Hungarian Foreign Minister Gyula Horn and his Austrian counterpart Alois Mock on June 27, the wall suddenly became permeable. In early July, there was a massive outbound movement of citizens from the GDR through Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

How blind the SED leadership was to reality and how it tried not to let the waves beat too high will be more evident on 7 October 1989, "Republic Day" on the occasion of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the GDR.

Erich Honecker organized the usual jubilees and popular celebrations in Berlin for the last time, but the citizens no longer identified with the party ideology. There have been numerous counter-demonstrations that have been tried to repress by force.

The last bars finally broke on November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell.