The Karlsruhe Sketchbook
What do the Friedrich-paintings Das Große Gehege (The Great Enclosure) (1832), Hünengrab im Schnee (Dolmen in the Snow) (1807), Abtei im Eichwald (Abbey in the Oak Wood) (1818), Frau vor der untergehenden Sonne (Woman in Front oft the Setting Sun) (1818) and Nordische Landschaft/Frühling (Northern Landscape/Spring) (1825) have in common? Correct, they all include motifs recorded by Friedrich between April and June of 1804 in a booklet, which is called the "Karlsruhe Sketchbook" today. Here you can flip through it.
City in a Box
In the 18th and 19th centuries, illuminated views in peep-boxes were a fairground sensation with a special charm. The collection of the Museum für Sächsische Folkskunst includes a set of city views that were displayed in such boxes. Among the cities depicted is Dresden, including, of course, the Frauenkirche. As luck would have it, the managing director of the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Frauenkirche Dresden e.V. is a proven peep-box expert. In our short film, he talks about the magic of the peep boxes and their history.
Raiders of the Lost Mind - Mischief and Insubordination in GDR Puppet Shows
What declares itself to be nonsense declares itself to be harmless. Supposedly. Because the consequence of such self-determination is the famous jester's license, which a group of theater people in the GDR also claimed for themselves in the 1980s when they called themselves “Zinnober” and began making Punch and Judy shows for adults. Their play “Die Jäger des verlorenen Verstandes” (Raiders of the Lost Mind) can easily be read by the audience as a mockery of the GDR state system and its toleration is hard to believe in retrospect - but true.
ostZone - Bela Álvarez
The "ostZONE" series, part of the special exhibition "Revolutionary Romances? Global Art Histories in the GDR", created a space within the Albertinum for anyone to share conversations, questions, and memories of life in the GDR and in modern-day eastern Germany. Bela Álvarez organized the "Holding the Strings" ("Die Fäden in der Hand halten") workshop, bringing the power of images as well as the power of our hands into focus.
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