GDR Guide
Journey into a Bygone State
Published on 9. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
244 pages
978-3-939801-57-3 (ISBN)
Description
The DDR Museum in the heart of Berlin has followed a special path since it opened in 2006. The exhibition tells about the reality of life of the people who lived in this country. She does this without sugarcoating and without demonizing. This book also attempts to do this. It wants to be more than a museum catalog, namely a kind of travel guide through the maze of conflicting memories.
Here the current state of research and public debates about the GDR is presented in an understandable form and offers food for thought for further study the past and the future of our society.
Divided into ten subject areas, the book describes the various aspects of life in the GDR in short, pointed and richly illustrated articles. 21 "special objects" from the permanent exhibition are presented and provide a common thread through the DDR Museum's exhibition. The publication is suitable for preparing a trip to Berlin, but is also useful for visitors who want to deepen their knowledge after walking through the exhibition.
Here the current state of research and public debates about the GDR is presented in an understandable form and offers food for thought for further study the past and the future of our society.
Divided into ten subject areas, the book describes the various aspects of life in the GDR in short, pointed and richly illustrated articles. 21 "special objects" from the permanent exhibition are presented and provide a common thread through the DDR Museum's exhibition. The publication is suitable for preparing a trip to Berlin, but is also useful for visitors who want to deepen their knowledge after walking through the exhibition.
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Persons
Author
Historiker
born 1973 in East Berlin, studied History of Technology, Modern History, and Geography at Technische Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Exhibition Director at the DDR Museum since 2016.
born 1973 in East Berlin, studied History of Technology, Modern History, and Geography at Technische Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Exhibition Director at the DDR Museum since 2016.
Historiker, Sachbuchautor
born 1950 in Halle / Saale, studied History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Scientific Director of the DDR Museum since 2006.
born 1950 in Halle / Saale, studied History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Scientific Director of the DDR Museum since 2006.
Editor
born in 1975. Growing up bilingually, he studied law at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1995, an East Berlin football club was founded in Berlin-Oberschöneweide and has been dealing with the changes in people's lives, transformations in companies and society in the former GDR for decades. He is also managing partner of the DDR Museum.
born in Berlin in 1970, grew up in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg and now lives in Karlshorst. The trained hotel specialist most recently lived in Munich and was responsible for European sales for an international hotel chain. He has been managing director and director of the DDR Museum since 2016. There he developed a successful exhibition concept that presents the history of the GDR in a lively and interactive way.