Germany is celebrating 33 years as a reunified country on Tuesday with a ceremony at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie concert hall.
Germany celebrates reunification with a national holiday to mark the day in 1990 when communist East Germany joined the Federal Republic of Germany, or West Germany, creating a single German state for the first time since 1945.
Hamburg was chosen for the celebrations this year, as the city-state currently holds the presidency of the Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament, dpa reported.
The official ceremony in the northern port city’s Elbphilharmonie will include a speech by German constitutional court head Stephan Harbarth to an audience of around 1,300, including the main national political leaders and premiers of the 16 states.
An ecumenical service is to be held in St Michael’s Church, with both events broadcast live on national public television.
The celebrations already started on Monday with a large party around the city hall and the the inner Alster lake.
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