Ostzeit: Stories from a Vanished Country
Various Artists
Hatje Cantz
English
Texts by Marcus Jauer, Wolfgang Kil, Alexander Osang and Ingo Schulze.
Photographs by Sibylle Bergemann, Harald Hauswald, Werner Mahler, Ute Mahler and Maurice Weiss.
Hardcover
288 pages
296 x 267 mm
2010
ISBN 9783775724869
In an authentic and unadorned way, these photos tell of a country that no longer exists, yet remains preserved in these images.
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Ostzeit presents photo series by the best chroniclers of the German Democratic Republic, culled from the first-class inventory of the Ostkreuz Agency. Founded on the concept of authorship in 1990 by photographers from Berlin and Leipzig, the agency was named after a Berlin train station. Anyone wanting to enter East Germany had to pass through this station.
Ostzeit offers sensitive pictures of the GDR and its people: Sibylle Bergemann’s unrivaled, humane photographs of the legendary Berlin dance hall Clärchens Ballhaus. Werner Mahler’s long-term study of Bad Berka in Thuringia. Harald Hauswald’s photographic essay on the drabness and hidden comedy of everyday life in the GDR. Ute Mahler’s revealing photos of the May Day Parade in Berlin in 1980. French photographer Maurice Weiss’s documentation of the final hours before the collapse of the Wall and reunification. And last, but not least, Bergemann’s emblematic images of the creation of the Marx-Engels monument, which, ironically, are now part of the German Parliament’s art collection.
This book acts as a supporting publication for the exhibition of the same name which took place in the Haus der Kulturen in Berlin from 13th of August to the 13th of September 2009.
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About the Publisher
Hatje Cantz is an international specialist publisher for art, architecture, photography, design, and visual culture, founded by Gerd Hatje in Stuttgart in 1945. Since then, Hatje Cantz has produced and published illustrated books with a high level of quality, both in terms of content and production.
The focus of our publishing work is to convey knowledge through images and language. We inspire both ourselves and our audiences with a passion for art, culture, contemporary culture, and relevant topics. Our illustrated books and catalogs are attractive, impressive, and produced as sustainably as possible. To facilitate the experience of art beyond the medium of books, “Edition Hatje Cantz” publishes works on paper, photographic works, and art objects in limited, signed editions by selected artists.
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