Counter monument

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War memorial by sculptor August Henneberger , 1925, and counter memorial by Rainer Tiedje, 1996

A counter- monument is a monument that has the purpose of adding a different statement ( antithesis ) to existing monuments whose statement is no longer supported, but also does not want to be changed ( monument rededication ) or removed ( monument collapse ) , for example for reasons of monument protection . to represent.

Examples

The 76 monument by Richard Kuöhl , erected in Hamburg in 1936, served as a counter-memorial to the Hamburg memorial erected in 1931 by Ernst Barlach . Very close to the war memorial again in 1983 or 1986 from the two sculptures was Hamburg firestorm and breakaway Cap Arcona existing counter-memorial by Alfred Hrdlicka . At the beginning of the 1980s, a change and rededication of the 76er monument was planned.

The war memorial by the sculptor August Henneberger from 1925 in front of St. Johannis in Altona was supplemented in 1996 by a counter memorial by Rainer Tiedje.

Jenny Holzer installed a laser projection onto the Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig from June 14th to 16th, 1996 in order to project texts directly onto the memorial.

A counter- memorial was politically discussed in 2016 for the memorial for the fallen soldiers of the Prussian Fusilier Regiment 39 in Düsseldorf-Golzheim .

literature

  • Dinah Wijsenbeek: Monument and counter- monument: about the critical handling of the past in the field of fine arts. Meidenbauer, 2010, ISBN 9783899757248
  • Corinna Tomberger: The counter monument . Avant-garde art, history politics and gender in the West German culture of remembrance. 2015, ISBN 978-3-8394-0774-5 ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gedenkstaetten-in-hamburg.de
  2. ↑ Bernd Miiüender: War memorial rededication: Stumbling block . In: The time . No. 41/1982 ( online ).
  3. ↑ https://www.hgb-leipzig.de/kunstorte/vsd_laserprojektion.html
  4. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duesseldorf/hamburg-hat-schon-ein-gegendenkmal-aid-1.5976630