Contemporary History Forum Leipzig
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place | Leipzig |
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opening | October 9, 1999 |
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The Zeitgeschichtliches Forum is a museum in Leipzig that deals with the history of the division of Germany , everyday life in the communist dictatorship of the GDR and the reunification process as well as the challenges that reunified Germany is facing in the 21st century. The museum is a location of the House of History Foundation in Bonn , funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media . Jürgen Reiche has been the director since September 2015. Rainer Eckert was the founding director from 1999 to 2015.
history
On the recommendation of the Independent Federalism Commission to the German Bundestag , the House of History Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany was commissioned in 1992 to set up an “Archive of German Unity” in Leipzig. In the center of the city (Grimmaische Straße 6), the Contemporary History Forum Leipzig, an exhibition, documentation and information center, was built. It was opened by Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder on October 9, 1999, the 10th anniversary of the Leipzig demonstration . Since then it has worked through exhibitions , panel discussions and documentaries. Around 3.7 million visitors have visited the house since it opened.
Permanent exhibition
The permanent exhibition of the Contemporary History Forum Leipzig begins with the period after the Second World War, shows life in the GDR and continues to the present day of the Federal Republic. The Monday demonstrations took place in Leipzig in autumn 1989 , a key step towards the end of the GDR. At the historic location, the permanent exhibition shows the revolutionary upheavals in the GDR and Eastern Europe , as well as their effects on Europe and world politics.
The fundamental revision of the permanent exhibition, which was completed in 2018, gives the period after reunification more space and sets new thematic focuses: successes and difficulties of growing together, international terrorism, digitization and globalization . 2000 objects, photos and films, as well as numerous interviews with contemporary witnesses, illustrate modern German history.
Temporary exhibitions
Several times a year the Forum for Contemporary History shows temporary exhibitions that complement and expand on the theme of the permanent exhibition. The changing exhibitions are shown on 450 m². In addition, the museum presents exhibitions in the foyer at shorter intervals.
Exhibition name | Period | Explanations |
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Contemporary history in the tram | October 9, 1999 to October 2000 | |
Views on Germany - Photographic portraits by Konrad Hoffmeister | from October 1999 | |
Images that lie | March 2 to July 9, 2000 | |
Photographs from both sides of the wall | August 14th to November 5th, 2000 | |
Traces of power. The transformation of man through office. A long-term study. Photographs by Herlinde Koelbl | September 14th to November 12th, 2000 | |
Testigos Invisibles. Invisible witnesses. Chile 1973–1990 | November 10, 2000 to January 21, 2001 | |
“Against Injustice - For Freedom!” Caricatures by Fritz Behrendt | December 15, 2000 to March 25, 2001 | |
"Gates of Freedom" | April 20 to June 10, 2001 | |
Fly, Johanna, fly | May 4th to May 27th 2001 | |
Jews in Germany today - synagogues in Saxony | June 15 to July 8, 2001 | |
Prosecutor of the Wall. Presentation of selected works by Roger Loewig | August 9 to September 30, 2001 | |
Photo stop. Four generations of East German photographers | July 13 to October 21, 2001 | |
shared - united - found | November 16, 2001 to January 13, 2002 | |
Spot on! Cartoons by Andreas J. Mueller | December 14, 2001 to January 27, 2002 | |
Women looks | February 5 to May 26, 2002 | |
Miss Germany - a beautiful story | December 8, 2000 to February 25, 2001 | |
Flashback 2001 | June 21, 2002 to July 21, 2002 | Photo journalists and caricaturists interpret the political year, foyer exhibition |
Wall cracks / knocking signs - art and culture of the 80s in Germany | August 3 to October 27, 2002 | |
Duel in the dark. Espionage in divided Germany | December 17, 2002 to April 21, 2003 | |
Show your face! | March 27, 2003 to April 17, 2003 | |
Wall jumps - art and culture of the 80s in Germany | March 15, 2003 to May 4, 2003 | Exhibition in the Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin |
50 years of Germany. Reflections in photography and graphics | May 9, 2003 to June 9, 2003 | |
Flashback 2002 | August 6 to August 31, 2003 | Photo journalists and caricaturists interpret the political year, foyer exhibition |
On the seventh day. Sunday story | June 20, 2003 to January 4, 2004 | |
"Resistance and Opposition in the GDR" | January 31, 2003 to January 6, 2004 | Traveling exhibition |
Zmizelé Sudety - The vanished Sudetenland | March 4 to March 28, 2004 | |
"Life behind the confectioner's facade" | January 15 to February 29, 2004 | |
Flashback 2003 | June 11th to July 18th, 2004 | Photo journalists and caricaturists interpret the political year, foyer exhibition |
Werner Tübke - paintings, graphics and final drawings | July 23 to August 29, 2004 | Foyer exhibition |
Consumption in "consumption" | August 31 to September 26, 2004 | Foyer exhibition |
Near and far. Germans, Czechs and Slovaks | March 18 to October 10, 2004 | |
Departures. Pictures of the change of epochs in the GDR and East Central Europe 1989–1991 | September 28 to October 24, 2004 | |
Back then in the GDR. 20 stories from 40 years | October 29, 2004 to January 9, 2005 | The exhibition on the multimedia project |
Images and Power in the 20th Century | November 26, 2004 to March 28, 2005 | |
Fence worlds. Stories about everyday culture in the GDR | March 4 to April 3, 2005 | |
North Korea - the last communist regime | March 18 to April 15, 2005 | |
Flashback 2004 | May 25 to July 3, 2005 | Photo journalists and caricaturists interpret the political year, foyer exhibition |
"The bottom line - caricature and censorship in the GDR" | April 22 to October 16, 2005 | |
Life before the fall of the wall. Photographs by Harald Hauswald | October 14th to November 20th, 2005 | Foyer exhibition |
Skirt! Youth and Music in Germany | December 17, 2005 to April 17, 2006 | |
"Try to remember" - Marius Müller-Westernhagen | April 28 to May 28, 2006 | Foyer exhibition |
"Friendly neighbors: Germany - Austria" | June 1 to October 9, 2006 | |
Flashback 2005 | June 15 to July 16, 2006 | Photo journalists and caricaturists interpret the political year, foyer exhibition |
STASI - secret rooms. Photographs by Daniel & Geo Fuchs | October 6th to November 12th, 2006 | |
Flight, displacement, integration | December 1, 2006 to April 22, 2007 | |
Germany trip. Photographs by Pia Malmus | May 11th to June 17th, 2007 | Foyer exhibition |
Flashback 2006 | June 27 to July 22, 2007 | The German Prize for Political Photography and Caricature, foyer exhibition |
over there. German Blickwechsel | May 30th to October 9th, 2007 | |
Presentation of the Lehmann label | October 25 to December 9, 2007 | in the foyer 3rd floor |
Home and exile. Emigration of German Jews after 1933 | 2007 | |
Roger Melis - In a quiet land. Photographs from the GDR | February 15 to March 30, 2008 | Foyer exhibition |
Imprisoned. Photographs and reports from Franziska Vu's remand prison of the State Security | April 11 to May 18, 2008 | |
Scandals in Germany after 1945 | May 7th to October 12th, 2008 | |
“Honecker suitcase” in the Contemporary History Forum Leipzig | May 22nd to June 8th, 2008 | |
Flashback 2007 | June 18 to July 20, 2008 | Photo journalists and caricaturists interpret the political year, foyer exhibition |
Anti-Semitism? Anti-zionism? Israel criticism? | August 28 to September 28, 2008 | Foyer exhibition |
“Jürgen Schieferdecker: Continued interference. Pictures of contemporary history " | October 8 to November 16, 2008 | Foyer exhibition |
"Melodies for Millions" - The Century of Hit | November 22, 2008 to April 19, 2009 | |
"The stuff dreams are made of. The Hawaiian shirt " | December 11, 2008 to February 1, 2009 | Presentation in the information center |
The mosaic by Hannes Hegen. The Digedags, frenzied reporters through space and time | May 14th to June 21st, 2009 | Foyer exhibition |
Flashback 2008 | July 3 to August 16, 2009 | The German Prize for Political Photography and Caricature, foyer exhibition |
PICTURES OF THE PEACEFUL REVOLUTION | September 24th to November 15th, 2009 | Foyer exhibition |
We against us. Sport in divided Germany | November 25, 2009 to April 5, 2010 | |
Kurt Klingner: Work, Everyday Life, Perspectives. Photographs from three decades of the GDR. | December 10, 2009 to February 28, 2010 | Foyer exhibition |
On the trail of the Digedags. First explorations | March 17 to May 16, 2010 | Foyer exhibition |
Presented from the collection: Sebastian Krüger - “Capitale” portraits of politicians | May 20 to July 4, 2010 | Foyer exhibition |
Joking aside. Humor and Politics in Germany | May 22nd to October 24th, 2010 | |
Flashback 2009 | July 15 to August 22, 2010 | The German Prize for Political Photography and Caricature, foyer exhibition |
And then the wall was gone. Photographs by Gilles Peress | September 22 to November 14, 2010 | |
Look over the wall. Photographs by Barbara Klemm | December 2, 2010 to February 20, 2011 | On the occasion of the 20-year city partnership between Leipzig and Frankfurt a. M. |
The main thing is work. Change in the world of work after 1945 | December 15, 2010 to May 8, 2011 | |
Border / change. Berlin / Potsdam 1973/1989/2007. Photographs by Karl-Ludwig Lange | October 7, 2010 to November 20, 2011 | |
Pictures in my head. Icons of contemporary history | June 16, 2011 to January 8, 2012 | |
Dig, Dag, Digedag. GDR comic " Mosaic " | February 17 to May 28, 2012 | |
Dream and sadness. About life in the record. Photographs by Harald Kirschner | March 8 to June 24, 2012 | |
At 17 ... be young in Germany | July 13, 2012 to November 4, 2012 | Curator: Bernd Lindner |
Timeskip. Photographs by Thomas Hoepker | October 3, 2012 to March 17, 2013 | |
Character. Language without words | December 13, 2012 to April 1, 2013 | |
Eat something?! Eating and drinking in Germany | May 17, 2013 to February 2, 2014 | |
Science fiction in Germany | June 14, 2013 to January 12, 2014 | |
The American Way. The USA in Germany | April 2 to October 12, 2014 | |
Shameless? Changing Sexual Morals | November 14, 2014 to April 12, 2015 | |
Negative pressure! Media and politics | December 5, 2014 to August 9, 2015 | |
Ceremony or picnic? German memorial days | June 3 to October 18, 2015 | |
Home is a distant land. Photographs by Gundula Schulze Eldowy | November 26, 2015 to August 14, 2016 | |
German myths since 1945 | June 15, 2016 to January 15, 2017 | |
Rückblende 2015. The German Prize for Political Photography and Caricature. | June 13, 2016 to August 28, 2016 | |
Escape, asylum, protest? We need to talk! A photo and text project by Bettina Flitner | November 26, 2015 to August 14, 2016 | |
Staged. German history in a feature film | April 5, 2017 to January 7, 2018 | |
Comrades from tomorrow! Army of Unity | March 17, 2017 to October 15, 2017 | |
Rückblende 2016. The German Prize for Political Photography and Caricature | July 12, 2017 to September 3, 2017 | |
Look at this land! Photographs by Sylvio Hoffmann | October 12, 2017 to June 10, 2018 | |
GDR comic "Mosaic". Dig, Dag, Digedag | permanent exhibition | |
Is everything according to plan? Design in the GDR | February 22, 2018 to October 14, 2018 | |
Flashback 2017. The German Prize for Political Photography and Caricature | July 19, 2018 to September 2, 2018 | |
Departure in the east. Photographs by Harald Schmitt | October 9, 2018 to April 7, 2019 | |
Top secret. Traces of the Cold War. Photographs by Martin Roemers | February 1, 2019 to June 30, 2019 | |
My club | March 1, 2019 to August 25, 2019 | |
Rückblende 2018. The German Prize for Political Photography and Caricature | August 21, 2019 to September 15, 2019 | |
Pure luxury | September 11, 2019 to April 13, 2020 | |
"Test the West" - photographs by Daniel Biskup | September 25, 2019 to February 2, 2020 |
See also
- Places of repression (database)
- Palace of Tears
- Museum in the Kulturbrauerei
- Contemporary witness portal (House of History)
Web links
- Official website
- Living Museum Online ( LeMO ) of the German Historical Museum and the House of History
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.hdg.de/zeitgeschichtliches-forum/organisation , accessed on June 14, 2020
- ↑ Press release , hdg.de, accessed on January 14, 2019.
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 23 " N , 12 ° 22 ′ 33" E