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For Immediate Release					May 3, 1999

After the Revolution:  Former East German Diplomats Discuss Status of 
Unification in Lawrence University Lecture

          APPLETON, WIS. -- A decade after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, has
Germany truly become a single, unified country?  
     Two former diplomats in East Germany's Communist Party examine the
changes that have occurred since the 1989 revolution that opened the Berlin
Wall and the challenges still facing a reunified Germany Monday, May 10 in a
Lawrence University Main Hall Forum.  Frank and Petra Teutschbein present,
"The New Germany: An Eastern Perspective," at 4:15 p.m. in Main Hall, Room
109.  The event is free and open to the public.
     The Teutschbein's will share their experiences as government officials
who were caught up in a political system as it was collapsing around them,
how East Germans' hopes and concerns about a unified Germany have and have
not been met and their personal difficulties in establishing new careers in
a society dominated by countrymen suspicious of them and their old beliefs.
     Prior to the revolution, Frank Teutschbein served in the International
Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party while Petra
Teutschbein served in the Foreign Ministry. They both previously held
diplomatic postings in Washington and Moscow. They currently work in the
private sector and reside in Berlin.