Documentation center for everyday culture in the GDR
The documentation center of everyday culture in the GDR in Eisenhüttenstadt is dedicated to the cultural, social and everyday history as well as everyday culture in the GDR .
history
The museum was founded in 1993 to safeguard the material culture of everyday life in the GDR and to make it available for exhibitions, research and education. Since then, around 170,000 items from everyday life in East Germany have been collected, from household items to clothing and furniture to records, books, certificates and photographs. A specialist library enables you to inspect publications from the GDR and more recent literature.
The documentation center is located in a former crèche, which has been renovated in accordance with historical monuments, in the center of the model town Eisenhüttenstadt, which has been built since 1951. It has shown changing exhibitions since 1995, and the permanent exhibition was fundamentally redesigned in 2012. The house is visited by 6,000 to 10,000 guests annually. His exhibitions are also shown in other federal states. From 1993 to 2012, the museum was headed by Andreas Ludwig. Florentine Nadolni has been heading the museum and the Beeskow art archive since the beginning of 2018 .
Sponsorship
The documentation center was initially a communal institution and was supported by a non-profit association from 1998 to 2012. The documentation center was funded by the state of Brandenburg , the Oder-Spree district and the city of Eisenhüttenstadt . Since 2013 it has only received financial support from the state of Brandenburg and the Oder-Spree district. The German Cultural Council put it on the Culture Red List (Category 1) in the summer of 2012 , as it was considered threatened with closure. From 2013 to 2015 it was again supported by the city of Eisenhüttenstadt and since then has expanded the museum's educational offer and the thematic spectrum with special exhibitions. On January 1, 2016, the institution was taken over by the Oder-Spree district.
Exhibitions
- Tempo lenses and P 2 . Everyday culture in the GDR, 1995/1996 (catalog).
- Open depot , 1997/1998.
- Around 1968 , 1999.
- Helga Paris : Diva in Gray , 1999.
- Progress, norm and stubbornness. Everyday Life in the GDR , 1999/2000 (catalog).
- I am the collective. Utopias in the GDR , 2000/2001 (catalog).
- abc of the east. 26 object stories , 2001/2002 (catalog).
- In the eyes of the masses. Posters in the GDR , 2002/2003.
- 1953 - A year in politics and everyday life , 2003/2004 (catalog).
- Europe in your head. The publishing house Volk und Welt in the GDR , 2004/2005 (catalog).
- The growing apartment. Living culture in the GDR in the 50s and 60s , 2005/2006.
- CONSUMPTION. Consumer cooperatives in the GDR , 2005–2007 (catalog).
- Living in the system. Home decor in the GDR in the 1960s and 1970s , 2006/2007.
- No competition in that sense. Advertising in the GDR , 2007–2009.
- Historic apartment from the 1950s , 2008–2012
- rest. Leisure time and vacation in the GDR , 2008/2009.
- 1989. A year of change and hope , 2009/10.
- Picked up things. A women's life in East Berlin , 2010/11 (catalog).
- Everyday things. Design in the GDR , 2011/12.
- Everyday life: GDR. Permanent exhibition , 2012 (catalog).
- Everything made of plastic. Promises and uses in the GDR , 2012/13 (catalog)
- Plastics. Material design history touring exhibition , 2012 (brochure)
- Arrival in Eisenhüttenstadt. A city founded by newcomers, 2014/15 (catalog)
- Commissioned young art. FDJ University Bogensee 1983-86, 2016 (booklet)
- Everyday shapes! Bauhaus Modernism in the GDR , 2019/20 (catalog)
literature
- Andreas Ludwig : Everyday culture of the GDR in Eisenhüttenstadt. Considerations for a museum concept . In: Bauwelt . Born in 1994
- Tempo lenses and P 2 (exhibition catalog), be.bra Verlag, Berlin
- Gerd Kuhn and Andreas Ludwig (eds.): Everyday life and social memory. The object culture of the GDR and its museumization . Results Verlag, Hamburg 1997
- Progress, norm and stubbornness (exhibition catalog). Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 1999
- Franziska Becker, Ina Merkel, Simone Tippach-Schneider (eds.): I am the collective (exhibition catalog). Böhlau, Cologne-Weimar-Vienna 2000
- Museum guide through the permanent exhibition . Self-published 2001
- abc of the east. 26 property stories . Regia-Verlag, Cottus 2003
- 1953 - A year in politics and everyday life . Self-published, Eisenhüttenstadt 2003
- Andreas Lauber: Home decor in the GDR. Documentation of their material culture . Typescript 2003
- Window to the world. A history of the GDR publishing house Volk & Welt . Ch. Links, Berlin 2003
- CONSUMPTION. Consumer cooperatives in the GDR (exhibition catalog). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2006
- Andreas Ludwig: Preservare ciò che scompare (translation into Italian by Andrea Rota). In: Eva Banchelli: Taste the East. Linguaggi e forme dell'Ostalgie . Sestante Edizioni, Bergamo 2006, pp. 59-76.
- Andreas Ludwig, Karl-Robert Schütze: Abolished things. A woman's life in East Berlin . Verlag Karl-Robert-Schütze, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-928589-27-7 .
- Everyday life: GDR. Stories, photos, objects . Ch. Links, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86153-670-3 .
- Andreas Ludwig: Everyday Life: GDR. Permanent exhibition . Self-published, Eisenhüttenstadt 2012 (guide through the permanent exhibition, German and English).
- Katja Böhme and Andreas Ludwig (eds.): Everything made of plastic. Promise and use in the GDR . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2012.
- Plastics. Material design history . Self-published, Eisenhüttenstadt 2012, (brochure accompanying the traveling exhibition).
Individual evidence
- ^ Everyday life in the GDR in banana boxes. Retrieved June 2, 2019 .
Web links
- Internet presence of the documentation center for GDR everyday culture
- More about individual exhibitions of the Documentation Center Everyday Culture in the GDR
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 32 " N , 14 ° 37 ′ 52.3" E