Posts Tagged ‘History’
Touching Berlin’s Ghosts
David Meyer tells the poignant story of how some Schöneberg residents connected personally with the city's torturous past... Berlin is a city of perpetual reinvention, but it's also a place of remembrance. Stolpersteine, tiny brass monuments embedded among the cobblestones, can be found in front of many buildings, memorialising the residents who were killed by the Nazi regime. Despite its name, a district in Schöneberg called the Bayerisches Viertel, or 'Bavarian Quarter', was [...]
ZZB: Berlin’s Historical Eye Witnesses
Paul Scraton goes beyond the museums and the history books to look at the importance of eyewitness history and Berlin's ZeitZeugenBörse... http://youtu.be/v3x2EBKn4PM Eyewitness History: An Interview with Jutta Hertlein from the ZeitZeugenBörse Berlin (by Dougal Squires and Ruby Pester). A few years ago I visited the crowded offices of the Falls Road Community Council in Belfast, where they were busy collecting and documenting the testimonies of local people and their memories of [...]
In Praise of Edgar Reitz’s Heimat
Wyndham Wallace profiles a 1980s German TV epic... “History is written by the victors”, Winston Churchill once said, and as someone living in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s I grew up with an interpretation that deemed the Germans humourless warmongers whose crimes should never be forgotten. In the playground, the word ‘Nazi’ was virtually interchangeable with ‘German’. The ‘propaganda’ of the war-associated films and comic books I consumed as a child was so deeply [...]
Käthe Kollwitz Museum
A harrowing collection of works by one of Germany’s most acclaimed female artists… Charlottenburg’s Käthe Kollwitz Museum is one of those Berlin attractions not particularly recommended for anyone looking to cheer themselves up on a rainy day. This permanent exhibition, which opened in 1986, is housed in a charming 19th century villa next to the Literaturhaus on Fasanenstrasse. It presents an extensive range of the German artist’s work, embracing “crucial aspects of life [...]
C/O Berlin
A contemporary photography space and slice of Old Berlin all in one… C/O Berlin There’s no lack of photography exhibition venues in Berlin. The city’s profusion of empty, run-down buildings and smart, upmarket galleries cater competently for its burgeoning photography community, reinforced by the plethora of cafes and restaurants eager to give their businesses a creative twist. Since opening in 2000, the privately financed, internationally-minded venue C/O Berlin has emerged as [...]
