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7/5, 2:00-4:30 pm, Lecture, SC E470, UMass* 7/6, 2:00-4:30 pm, Screenings, ILC S240, UMass* Painting Women: Women Artists in the GDR | April Eisman, Iowa State Univ. A selection of short films on visual artists in the GDR | Intro by April Eisman, Iowa State Univ. There were many women artists in East Germany, in large part due to the GDR's Three GDR Women Painters • Malen in der DDR long-term emphasis on gender equality. This talk presents a handful of the most (Germany, 1986, dir. Silvia Brüning, 12 min., color, doc.) successful women painters, examines how they engaged with a medium traditionally In this West German TV report—coinciding with the first GDR art exhibition in the FRG defined by male interests and the female nude, and notes the challenges they faced after the 1986 bilateral cultural exchange agreement—Angela Hampel, Gudrun Trenda- working in a country that claimed a gender equality it had not achieved. filov and Ursula Rzodeczko speak about creating art within existing restrictions. Battle on Canvas • Schlacht am Bild Painter Heidrun Hegewald (GDR, 1988, dir. Ted Tetzke, 21 min., color, doc., EN ST) Malerin Heidrun Hegewald After over 10 years, Werner Tübke completed The Early Bour- (Germany, 1994, dir. Thomas Grimm, 40 min., color, doc.) geois Revolution in Germany, a monumental oil-on-canvas A 1994 interview with (East) German painter and graphic painting for the Panorama Museum, painted in the Renaissance artist Heidrun Hegewald about her experience with art styles of Albrecht Dürer and Albrecht Altdorfer. commissions by the state. 9th GDR Art Exhibition: Dresden, 1982-83 Núria Quevedo: A Berliner from Barcelona IX. Kunstausstellung der DDR – Dresden 1982/1983 Núria Quevedo–eine Berlinerin aus Barcelona (GDR, 1983, dir. Peter Petersen, 24 min., color, doc). (Germany, 2003, dir. Karlheinz Mund, 72 min., color, doc.) The GDR Ministry of Culture hosted a national art exhibition in Dresden every 4 years, A portrait of the Spanish painter Núria Quevedo, whose which presented an ofcial selection of artworks. Over 1500 artists—including Werner Republican family moved to East Germany in 1952. In her Tübke, Harald Metzkes, Albrecht Gehse and Willi Sitte—participated in the 1982-83 paintings she depicts themes of exile and rootlessness. show, which was seen by over one million visitors. 7/5, 7:00-9:00 pm, SOM 137, UMass* Hermann Glöckner: A Short Visit Kurzer Besuch bei Hermann Glöckner Käthe Kollwitz: Images of a Life (GDR, 1984, dir. Jürgen Böttcher, 32 min., color&b/w, doc., EN ST) Intro by Sky Arndt-Briggs, UMass Amherst Constructivist painter and sculptor Hermann Glöckner speaks Käthe Kollwitz – Bilder eines Lebens of his experiences under the Nazis and his difculties with (GDR, 1986, dir. Ralf Kirsten, 95 min., color, EN ST) Socialist Realism in the 1950s and ‘60s. This is the only filmic Kollwitz was 47 and a successful artist when her son Peter portrait of the artist. was killed in WWI. Though always politically active, her son's death turned Kollwitz to radical pacifism and reflections on Strawalde and Penck Paint a Picture • Strawalde und Penck malen ein Bild the meaning of war in her art. For this mosaic-like portrait, (Germany, 1991, dir. Heiner Sylvester, 29 min., color, EN VO) On September 18, 1991, two significant (East) German painters—Strawalde (Jürgen Bött- WEEK THREE director Ralf Kirsten fitted together episodes from Kollwitz’s unpublished letters and diaries. cher) and A.R. Penck (Ralf Winkler)—got together for a unique painting action in Berlin. 7/9, 2:00-4:30 pm, Screenings, ILC S240, UMass* 7/10, 7:00-9:30 pm, Amherst Cinema Selected shorts on the GDR’S 1980s alternative art scene | Intro April Eisman, Iowa State Univ. whisper & SHOUT | Intro by Sky Arndt-Briggs, UMass Amherst Three Artists’ Super-8 Films: (from the collection of the ex.oriente.lux archive in Berlin) flüstern & SCHREIEN Action Situation (GDR, dir. Helge Leiberg, 1983, 9 min., color&b/w) (GDR, 1988, dir. Dieter Schumann, 120 min., color, doc., EN ST) Draped in White (GDR, dir. Cornelia Schleime, 1987, 9 min., color) Presenting the GDR rock music scene of the late 1980s. From Report–A Comment on a Comment (GDR, dir. Via Lewandowsky, 1987, 7 min., color) well-established bands like Silly, to underground rock bands like Feeling B, this road movie includes clips from concerts Two Shorts by Lutz Dammbeck: and interviews with musicians and fans. It played in sold-out theaters to over a million Metamorphoses I (GDR, 1979, 7 min., color, non-camera-anim.) viewers, who were not only drawn to see their favorite bands, but also surprised that A collage based on the idea for a banned Tangente multi-media exhibition. this film made it past the censors. Hommage à la Sarraz (Germany, 1981, 12 min., b&w, non-camera anim.) The director relocates the Leipzig-based artists’ circle known as Herbstsalon to La Sarraz, the 7/11, 2:00-4:30 pm, ILC S240, UMass* legendary site of the European avant-garde filmmakers’ congress in 1929. Latest from the Da-Da-R The First Leipzig Herbstsalon • Herbstsalon Intro by Seán Allan, Univ. of St Andrews (Germany, 1984-2017, dir. Lutz Dammbeck, 22 min., b/w, doc., EN Intertitles) Letztes aus der DaDaeR In 1984 six GDR artists, including Dammbeck, secretly organized the sensational First (GDR, 1990, dir. Jörg Foth, 86 min., color, EN ST) Leipzig Herbstsalon, in protest of the failed reform of the East German art market. Highly acclaimed East German poets, songwriters and The Subversive Camera • Die subversive Kamera clowns Stefen Mensching and Hans-Eckardt Wenzel per- (Germany, 1997, dir. Cornelia Klauß, 42 min., color, doc., EN ST) formed in the independent cabaret group Karls Enkel (Karl's The history of the GDR Super-8 scene—an underground art movement that was closely Grandchildren), founded in 1976. This film is based on their cabaret skits, which satirized monitored by the Stasi. Artists Ramona Köppel-Welsch, Cornelia Schleime and Christine currents events and were frowned upon by the authorities. “Da-Da-R” is a play on the Schlegel, among others, talk about their experiences as artists in the GDR and how 1920s Dada art movement and the German acronym for East Germany—the DDR. their work changed after the Wall came down. 7/11, 7:30-9:30 pm, Panel Discussion, Old Chapel, UMass 7/9, 7:00-9:00 pm, SOM 137, UMass* Post-Unification Debates on GDR Art In the wake of German unification, the long and contentious 1990s saw many of East Two looks at alternative artistic practices | Intro April Eisman, Iowa State Univ. Germany’s artists come under attack. In essence, these debates were about the roles Quick Animation East German artists would be allowed to play in unified Germany. Panelists will discuss (GDR, 1989, dir. Gabor Steiger, 7 min., color, anim.) their recollections and thoughts about the evolution of attitudes towards East German Big city scenes evolve into ironically alienated settings using grafti and rap music. art in the years after German unification. Claiming Space: The Independent Art Exhibit Scene in the GDR WEEK FOUR 7/12, 7:00-9:00 pm, SOM 137, UMass* Behauptung des Raums: Wege unabhängiger Ausstellungskultur in der DDR (Germany, 2009, dir. Claus Löser, Jakobine Motz, 101 min. ,color&b/w, doc., EN ST) A Place in Berlin | Intro by Barton Byg, UMass Amherst By the 1970s, a GDR alternative arts scene was developing Konzert im Freien that sought to create its own structures and avoid the ofcial (Germany, 2001, dir. Jürgen Böttcher, 86 min., color, doc., EN ST) apparatus of artistic production and exhibition. The new arti- A team of artists was commissioned to create the Marx- stic subculture grew across the arts and established galleries Engels Forum, a sculpture group commemorating the such as Leipzig’s EIGEN+ART. international workers’ movement in the center of East Berlin. Böttcher blends old and newly-shot footage of the monument to explore the changing meanings of monuments. Two well-known (East) German jazz musicians—Günter “Baby” Sommer (perc) and Dietmar Diesner (sax)—interpret the space and images musically. June 26-July 15, 2018 | Exhibition, Olver Design Building, UMass | Opening 6/26, 5:30-7:00 pm Anke Feuchtenberger – Selected Works Curated by Bibiana Medkova, UMass Amherst Anke Feuchtenberger (b. 1963) was raised in East Berlin, where she trained as a graphic artist at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. Shortly before the fall of the Wall, she co- founded the political artists’ collective PGH Glühende Zukunft. In her comics, theater and political posters and other works, Feuchtenberger blends diferent artistic traditions, including German Expressionism. Her work frequently reflects her feminist activism by focusing on the relationship between women and their children and society. Since 1997, she has taught drawing and media illustration at Hamburg’s Academy of Applied Sciences. [feuchtenbergerowa.de] Exhibited works selected from a collection donated to the DEFA Film Library and the University of Massachusetts Amherst by (East) German filmmaker Jörg Foth. (Artwork: Book cover for Mutterkuchen © 1995 Anke Feuchtenberger) For more information: cultureinthecoldwar.com | Phone: (413) 545-6681 NEH Summer Institute Faculty: Sky Arndt-Briggs and Barton Byg (Directors, Mass Amherst), Seán Allan (Univ. of St Andrews), Joy Calico (Vanderbilt Univ.), April Eisman (Iowa State Univ.), Elaine Kelly (Univ. of Edinbrugh), Johanna Yunker (UMass Amherst) and Hiltrud Schulz (Film Curator, DEFA Film Library). The DEFA Film Library thanks many friends and colleagues who helped with this program. For films & screening materials: The DEFA-Stiftung (Stefanie Eckert, Anne Möller, Rita Damm, Sabine Söhner); Progress Filmverleih (Robert Zahalka, Miriam Mai); The Kurt-Schwaen-Archiv (Ina Schwaen); Rainer Burmeister; ex.oriente.lux archiv (Claus Löser); Goethe-Institute e.V.; Goethe-Institut Boston.