Just a New Coat of Paint? How the East German province is changing

Talking about ruptures

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  Portrait der Direktorin des Zeitgeschichtlichen Forums Leipzig Uta Bretschneider – Portrait der Direktorin des Zeitgeschichtlichen Forums Leipzig Uta Bretschneider

• Mechanische Arena im Foyer des Humboldt Forums – Mechanische Arena im Foyer des Humboldt Forums

• Bild des Schriftstellers Gregor Sander – Bild des Schriftstellers Gregor Sander

Everything except Berlin is provincial? The reunification took place in East Germany. Uta Bretschneider travels the country documenting the decay and resurgence of the former GDR.

And Gregor Sander turns the tables for once: View from the East to the West – Gelsenkirchen. It really does exist there. The gray and sad West.The native of Schwerin spent several months there, researching for his novel and experiencing the poor West, where coal and steel are long gone.

Moderation: Markus Dichmann

Participants in the discussion: Uta Bretschneider and Gregor Sander

Participants

Uta Bretschneider is Director of the Zeitgeschichtliches Forum Leipzig. From 2016 to 2020, she headed the Hennebergisches Museum Kloster Veßra, an open-air museum founded in 1975 in southern Thuringia. Previously, she was a research assistant at the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore, Dresden. She completed her doctorate between 2011 and 2014 on the topic ‘Vom Ich zum Wir‘? Flüchtlinge und Vertriebene als Neubauern in der LPG. From 2009 to 2011, she worked at the Henneberg Museum Kloster Veßra. In 2008, she completed her studies in Ethnology/Cultural History and Sociology at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

Main research interests: Musealization, GDR everyday culture, transformation period, biographical research, history of rural areas.

Gregor Sander, born in Schwerin in 1968, is a freelance author living in Berlin. He has received several awards for his novels and short stories. His debut novel Abwesend was nominated for the German Book Prize, and his novel Was gewesen wäre was made into a film with a prominent cast. His novel Alles richtig gemacht was recently published by Penguin.

Markus Dichmann, born in 1987, is a freelance author, reporter and presenter on Deutschlandradio programs. He presents the weekly magazine show Eine Stunde History for Deutschlandfunk Nova, which won the German Podcast Award in 2019 and was nominated for the German Radio Award in 2017. For his work as an author and reporter, often on historical topics, he won the German-French Journalism Prize and was nominated for the German-Polish Tadeusz Mazowiecki Prize. As a Johannes Rau scholarship holder, he worked as a freelance correspondent in Istanbul. He completed a traineeship at Deutschlandradio, studied communication science, politics and law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, and has previously worked in print, radio and television (WAZ, ZDF, Deutschlandfunk).

- free admission

- 12 years and older

- Language: German

- Location: Mechanical Arena in the Foyer

- Part of: Talking About Ruptures

- Belongs to: Transform!

Next date:

• Date Saturday, 05/October/2024 16:00
• Venue Humboldt Forum: Foyer
• Address Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin-Mitte