{"id":54304,"date":"2021-12-10T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kulturaktiv.org\/?p=54304"},"modified":"2023-09-05T09:04:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T09:04:14","slug":"sichtbare-erinnerungen-treffpunkt-ostzone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulturaktiv.org\/en\/sichtbare-erinnerungen-treffpunkt-ostzone\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital exhibition Sichtbare Erinnerungen – Treffpunkt ostZONE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Gorbitz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Johannstadt<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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S\u00fcdvorstadt<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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What do Barbara, Bui, Hung, Inge, Luis and Wolfgang have in common?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have lived in Dresden for over 40 years. How do they remember the GDR era? What was everyday life like in the GDR, especially for immigrants?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Akam, Christine, Douha, Mahsa or Rita, who moved here after reunification or during the flight movements in 2015? What connection do they have to the country that no longer exists when they arrive in Dresden?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Treffpunkt ostZONE<\/a> made it possible to remember, recount and question one’s own experiences during the GDR era. The memories are anchored in people’s worlds of experience and are very different. For everyone, they are shaped by different, specific images. Which memories are present, what is remembered and how? Are there intersections with the memories of others?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artists in our project encouraged the participants in the market caf\u00e9s, district walks, podium discussions and biography art workshops to make their memories visible through and with art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result: The participants created expressive works and an extensive collection was created. Memories of or about the GDR era are becoming more and more polyphonic and enrich the culture of remembrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the works are presented here. We hope you enjoy browsing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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18.06.2021 – Market caf\u00e9 and district walk \u201eImmigration in the GDR – yesterday and today\u201c<\/a> with Anja Maria Eisen<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Visual Facilitation
Anja Maria Eisen
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19.\/26.06.2021 – Biography art workshop<\/a> with Anja Maria Eisen<\/a> and Nadine W\u00f6lk<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Collective works of the participants
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Fragments of memory were put together with the participants to form a whole. This creates a large associative surface that offers the viewers the opportunity to discover themselves in this cosmos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201eI think, therefore I am.\u201c
Participant collage
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19.\/26.06.2021 – Biografie-Kunstworkshop<\/a> MemoryCOLLAGES | Project books
with Nadine W\u00f6lk<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Remembrance books
Nadine W\u00f6lk, works of the participants
Upcycling \/ old documents, SW copies, certificates, photos<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Snippets of memories or sequences, recipes, quotes, concepts, mnemonics, insights, jokes and philosophical approaches – The own reflection allows an examination of the THEN and TODAY. Nadine W\u00f6lk created the books individually by hand. The participants filled them with their memories<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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02.07.2021 – Market caf\u00e9<\/a> with Authors of the city district magazine “Zeile” and Nazanin Zandi<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Visual Facilitation
Nazanin Zandi
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Nazanin Zandi about the event<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eAt the market caf\u00e9 in Johannstadt, I was very impressed by the biographical memories of those present. Wolfgang Hunger talked about his youth and his time as a worker in the panel factory at that time. He was responsible for tiles and inlays, this I have drawn in the graphics. And he told us about his childhood, about tanks on bridges and about the “restricted areas” where contract workers lived, separated from the GDR reality that took place outside. (…)<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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02.07.2021 – District walk \u201eLiving together in Johannstadt – GDR and today.\u201c<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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\u201eWindows and doors of Johannstadt\u201c
Moussa Mbarek and the participants
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We have been accompanied by questions about our own closed or opened doors of life. One door slams shut, another opens. Only those who can remember know who they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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03.07.2021 – Podium discussion \u201eRussia\/Soviet Union – big brother?\u201c<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Graphic Recording
Antje Dennewitz<\/a>
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10.\/17.07.2021 – Biography art workshop \u201eMoments of life\u201c<\/a> – Experiences and memories
with Moussa Mbarek<\/a> and Nazanin Zandi<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Works of the participants
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Many memories of life disappear, are cut away and remain invisible. Some remain forever, as in linoleum printing, where only the upstanding parts remain printed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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10.\/17.07.2021 – Biography art workshop \u201eWho am I?\u201c<\/a> Experiences and memories in comic style
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Comic style collage
Joint work of the participants
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Moussa Mbarek about the event<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eFollowing personal impulses, we worked together with Nazanin Zandi to create collages that took on a special life through the form of comics. In addition, we used the method of linoleum printing to make events and experiences visible.(…)<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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10.09.2021 – Market caf\u00e9
\u201eThe other side? Soviet era and Stasi files\u201c<\/a> with Susan Donath<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Objects \/ Visualization \/ Photography
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Artistic examination of dealing with Stasi files in confrontation with the own family<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Drawings
Elena Pagel<\/a>
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10.09.2021 – District walk \u201eIn the footsteps of Soviet soldiers\u201c<\/a> with Susan Donath<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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LAST WORDS of the participants<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eSeveral times I would not have existed, a bomb exploded next to my grandfather, a bullet grazed the helmet of my father, a peace flag in white on the balcony of my mother was the cause of a shot by a sniper…\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eSo many questions still open, the young men who died in 1952, …\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThese graves here of Soviet or Russian soldiers are the only visible signs of the presence of these people here in Dresden (1945-1992).\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201e\u042f\u043d\u0430 \u0411\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0441\u043e\u0432\u0430, born and died in 1987 Dresden\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThis is a teardrop shape\u2026you noticed, in Russia or Eastern Europe it is standard. I didn’t think about it before, but after your comment, I started reading about what meanings the wreath shapes have in funeral floristry in Russia. Earlier, in the USSR the funeral wreaths were only in teardrop shape. More recently (influence of Europe, apparently) there are also heart and circle shapes. Wreaths in oval or teardrop shape are a symbol of sorrow, sadness and suffering of the heart and soul…\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThank you for this insight and conversation with and in the group. You have let me participate in something.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eI am moved by the names, their stories, their biographies.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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11.09.2021 – Podium discussion \u201eClich\u00e9s and prejudices\u201c<\/a> with BENUZ<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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BENUZ
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Benuz about the event<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eI have accompanied the event with my association painting. I took bright colors for my painting, because our world is colorful and diverse, also in Dresden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the canvas the face is drawn of the abstract prototype of a man in calligraphy style. Calligraphy style means a lot to me. This technique is discovered in many ancient cultures: Greece, China, Japan, Korea. There are Western, Hebrew, Arabic and Slavic calligraphy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among other things, I heard the following terms during the participants’ conversations and integrated them into the image as letters, words and graphic elements: Home, possibilities, hope, typical, country, decision, memory, guilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Very often, especially in Dresden, I hear how we foreigners are criticized and hated by some locals. This is mostly done by Germans who do nothing at all for their own homeland, who only want to take and have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really liked and share the opinion of a contemporary witness from the panel: ‘In the end, it is not important where people come from, but what they do for society and culture.’\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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18.\/25.09.2021 – Biography art workshop<\/a> with Melissa Wagner<\/a> and BENUZ<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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3D Objects
Objects of the participants
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\u201eMy first Mask\u201c by Wolfgang Scheder<\/strong> (Mask in the middle)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIn my life, I didn’t need two faces. That changed one day in September 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the biography art workshop, I just wanted to watch the attendees create, until I was encouraged by Frau Wagner to make something out of paper. I gladly took up her idea of creating a mask. After she had wrapped me, actually my head, I began with the further shaping of the material. So I am now times.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201eTschernobyl\u201c
Evgenia Natzschka
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\u201eChernobyl nuclear disaster, 26.07.1986\u201c<\/strong> by Evgenia Natzschka<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eI was still in elementary school, not fully 10 years old. It was the weekend and I was looking forward to playing outside with friends all day. My parents were all weird. I was allowed to go outside and my mind was far away – on the playground, the green meadow, riding my bike and the infinitely beautiful river. I finally had my first bike that year. (It was too contaminated to pick up then). I didn’t see anyone outside. The streets were empty. The air felt so clean, it must have rained during the night. A while later, Mother called me back home. When I came in, a man was talking on the radio. We were being taken out of town on buses for a while. We were only supposed to take something for a few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember riding in a bus convoy. Everyone was friendly and thoughtful. I never came back to my room, my apartment and the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One still feels like with a heavy stone inside. Like an unreachable mountain has remained where I was allowed to be a child.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Individual and collective works of the participants
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Home, possibilities, hope, typical, country, decision, memory, guilt. All these terms are the basis of the various calligraphies of the participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joint work of the participants
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01.10.2021 – Market caf\u00e9 \u201eTailoring and sewing: GDR – today\u201c<\/a> with Xenia Gorodnia<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Xenia Gorodnia
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The Veritas sewing machine, the everyday object of the Vietnamese contract workers in the textile industry of the GDR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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01.10.2021 – District walk \u201e<\/a> Remember <\/a>S\u00fcdvorstadt\u201c with Xenia Gorodnia<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Memories of the participants
Arrangement by Xenia Gorodnia
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02.\/09.10.2021 – Biography art workshop<\/a> with Janina Kracht<\/a> and Xenia Gorodnia<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Formstein system of the artists Karl-Heinz Adler and Friedrich Kracht consists of 12 basic stones and forms the basis for the examination of GDR art in construction and GDR colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Works of the participants and Janina Kracht
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Playing with form and color to create new realities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Works of the participants
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