Kiel, located on the shores of the bay of the same name, is the capital of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein. Kiel was badly damaged during the bombings in the Second World War, when almost all the historical monuments of the city were destroyed. Most of the buildings, including the Kiel Castle, were rebuilt after the war. The city is also the birthplace of the famous Kiel Week, one of the most important events in the world of sailing. How…
German Democratic Republic. – The building interventions carried out during the 1980s in Germany Orientale are part of the current debate of critical rethinking of modernity and in particular of the ideological and cultural paradigms on which the construction of the ” socialist city ” in the 1960s was informed -Seventy. During the seventies, in fact, as part of the vast residential building program launched in 1971 by the 8th Congress of the SED (Unified Socialist Party of Germany) which indicated,…
Koblenz, Germany: One of the oldest and most diverse cities in Germany The city of Koblenz is impressive for its exposed location at the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle rivers in northern Rhineland-Palatinate. Founded over 2,000 years ago, it is one of the oldest cities in Germany. Although 87% of it was destroyed in the Second World War, the rebuilt city and its surroundings offer a wealth of architectural and cultural monuments that are well worth seeing. Many buildings…
1976–1990: With Biermann’s expatriation (1976) and the semi-public reactions to it, the regime’s inability to engage in any intellectual debate became evident. The situation worsened again in 1979 after critical works by GDR authors were published by Western publishers (Heym, “5 Tage im Juni”, 1974; Rolf Schneider, “November”, 1979) and SED cultural officials reacted with new defamation campaigns and eight writers (K. Bartsch, Endler, Loest, K. Poche, K. Schlesinger, Jurek Becker, Dieter Schubert [* 1929, † 2008], M. Stade) wrote an open letter to E. Honecker in which they expressed their concern…
1945–1976: From early on, cultural policy was dominated by the ideological and educational mandate of the SED, which also shaped the confrontation with National Socialism. The works of communist literature created before 1945 set standards, v. a. but the works by left-wing writers that were created in exile and have now been published in the GDR: works by Anna Seghers, A. Zweig, L. Renn, G. Weisenborn, F. Wolf, S. Heym, J. R. Becher, H. Mann among others The majority of these authors took up residence in the Soviet occupation…
Around 1725, a radical change emerged in European music, which composers in Germany only understood, hardly helped to shape. In the face of a new, bourgeois public, musical creation stepped out of its functional ties: comprehensibility through orientation to song and dance, sensuality through melodic beauty, imaginative expressivity and compositional originality became hallmarks of the pre-classical period, which became a specifically German one through the melting of Italian and French influences Embossed received. Representative here are the works of Bach’s…
An evening in Stuttgart is quickly spent exploring local wines. Mersu is number one in Stuttgart Impressive of both its architecture and exhibition, the Mercedes-Benz Museum is the city’s number one attraction. Especially in the dark, the museum’s futuristic look stands out from afar. This destination should not be missed, even if you are no longer a car person or even interested in technology. In an interesting and illustrative way, the museum presents not only the history of the automotive…