From NVA-inspired fashion, GDR-themed hotels and restaurants, GDR-product fairs and mail-order companies, to relaunched and newly created GDR brands like…
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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),…
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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?…
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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…
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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…
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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…
Coming to Terms with the GDR Past – Ein Nachruf
Coming to Terms with the GDR Past: Thoughts on the Case Andrej Holm and the Student Occupation of the Institute…
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Relaunch and New Blog!
Welcome to our new blog! Since the beginning of the Third Generation network initiative, we have connected with different scholars…