GDR History & art
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Note: 1,0 Einleitung Die künstlerisch produzierten Bilder über den Alltag in der DDR unter den Machtverhältnissen der SED-Diktatur haben die heute gängigen Vorstellungen über sie entscheidend geprägt. Gerade die unverwechselbaren... more
The author proposes post-imperial analysis as a new research agenda for the study of (post-)GDR literature and painting. The article models this kind of analysis with respect to works by the authors listed in the title, focusing on the... more
My chapter focuses on the migratory journey of Hanns Eisler. I discuss how shifts in his compositional approaches reveal a musical turning away from nationalism in search of more internationalist idioms on the one hand, and a recourse to... more
This essay examines cultural attitudes to Nietzsche in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), which appeared to be changing in the mid- to late 1980s, after almost forty years of deliberate, officially sanctioned neglect of the thinker.... more
Palast der Republik, by the photographer Christoph Rokitta, is an independent photobook published in 2013 in Berlin. In Palast der Republik different semiotic resources interact with one another, in order to reveal a new experience about... more
Paper presented at the conference "Avantgarde und Geschichte im Kalten Krieg"
This article looks at the impact that East Germany’s gender policies had on the visual arts and especially women painters across four decades. The first two sections focus on women’s participation in the national art exhibitions in... more
Visual media played a crucial role on nearly all levels of everyday private and public life in the GDR. This essay intends to readjust the focus on GDR visual history by investigating its margins, including ephemeral and semi-official... more
How many good ideas are needed to rehabilitate unused buildings? How many positively-intentioned investors are necessary to reactivate spaces with no clearly visible potentials? What if the buildings have an unpleasant political past? The... more
This essay examines the debates around colour in East German architecture from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. It traces the gradual relinquishing of the attempt to determine principles for the colouring of socialist architecture based... more
skizziert wird, wie sich kurt schwaens in den ersten jahren der ddr entstandene musik für kinder und für laienensembles zu dem verhält, was sich als sozialistischer realismus in der musik verstehen ließ.
This essay is published in a booklet accompanying the DEFA film Library's release of Konrad Wolf's The Naked Man on the
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Open Access-Veröffentlichung, Creative Commons International 4.0
Link zum Sammelband: https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000117728
Link zum Sammelband: https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000117728
de décloisonner l'approche historique des productions musicales, en sortant du « tout politique » et du « tout apolitique ».
Der Beitrag widmet sich der Darstellung mentaler und körperlicher Einschränkungen bei Gabriele Stötzer und Cornelia Schleime. Gefragt wird, inwiefern der jenseits von Body Art auch für andere künstlerische Artikulationen bezeichnende... more
Call for Paper: Transformation of (Post-)Communist Memory. Renaming Public Spaces and Redefining Monuments in the Republic of Poland and the Federal Republic of Germany since 1990 The workshop examines how the symbolic and material... more
This paper discusses the Exhibition Project and Research Process Up Till Now – Reconsidering historical performance and actionist Art from the former German Democratic Republic (8th March - 26th May 2013, Museum of Contemporary Art,... more
Begleittext zur Ausstellung "übersehen - Kunst in der DDR" (Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), die im Rahmen des Seminars von Prof. Dr. Katja Bernhardt ("Kunst in der DDR" - WiSe 2018/2019) stattfand... more
The article sets out to investigate the fundamental problem for the methodology of postwar German art history, namely, the unavoidable fusion of two markedly different perspectives, i.e., those of East and West Germany, into a coherent... more
In the first years after the war, the political future of occupied Germany was by no means a foregone conclusion, and the ideological convictions of the citizens clearly did not coincide with sectoral boundaries. Despite the division into... more
Vertreter*innen der feministischen Avantgarde wie Birgit Jürgenssen, Francesca Woodman und Ana Mendieta haben in der gläsernen Wand ein geeignetes Medium erkannt, um ihrem ambivalenten Status als Frau und Künstlerin in patriarchalen... more
The car is one of the few luxury items that historically is widely accepted in Germany, the land of “discreet consumption.” This contribution draws on social science research, includes writings on popular culture, and presents examples... more
Première actrice française récompensée par un Oscar à Hollywood, Simone Signoret fut autant populaire à l’Ouest qu’à l’Est. Dans les années 1950, elle participe à plusieurs tournages dans les studios de la DEFA et collabore avec des... more