Statement on the Continuous Murdering of Black People
We, members of the Third Generation Ost, are condemning the recent murders of Georg Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and…
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Christian Petzold’s Cinema of Haunted Figures
The first contribution to “Vereinigung” (unification), a subject that will be the main focus in our network during this year,…
An Online Symposium 30 Years After the Fall of the Wall
Katrin Bahr, Victoria Rizo-Lenshyn, Claudia Sandberg, Juliane Schicker This project examines political, social, and cultural movements and tendencies that existed…
Poetic Visibility: East German Poetry and Blackness in Farbe Bekennen (1986)
In 1986 a group of Black German feminist poets stirred up the West German literary scene. As a result of…
Why studying the GDR still matters today – The GDR as Lived Experience
In their introduction to the volume The GDR Today: New Interdisciplinary Approaches to East German History, Memory and Culture (2018),…
Kunst und Macht. Lutz Dammbeck in Australia
FEATURED ESSAY How and when do artists become complicit with power, entangled in its strategies that sometimes surpass their awareness?…
Traveling Mozambique: Family History and Search for Traces
“For all of us there is a twilight zone between history and memory; between the past as a generalized record…
The Art Installation Beyond the Wall – Looking into the Eyes of the GDR Border Regime
Using the biggest, still preserved piece of the Berlin Wall, the 2017 open-air installation Beyond the Wall stretched alongside the…
Behind the Mask: East German Art and Potsdam’s Neo-Baroque Urban Fabric
Roughly one year ago, on January 23, 2017, the latest addition to Potsdam’s museum scene opened its doors to the…