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  • Historical Critical Commentary on the Ernst Thälmann Monument 16. November 2021
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  • Lookinout
    The space around the monument and its usage

    As early as 1986, Betina Kuntzsch would have had some alternatives for the monument: heroes or heroines with a human face – Rosa Luxemburg in a huge flower garden or Sigmund Jähn, the first German in space.

    14. November 2021
  • Head Fist Flag
    A Thälmann monument – three years before the fall of the Wall

    Ernst Thälmann had moved the masses during the Weimar Republic. He failed to bring about the “victory of communism”.

    13. November 2021
  • Gasometer
    The Triple Colosseum of Prenzlauer Berg

    When the decision to build Ernst Thälmann Park was made in 1981, things were starting to simmer in the capital of the GDR. Resistance developed against the planned demolition of the former gasworks.

    13. November 2021
  • Neckerchief
    In the pioneer organisation “Ernst Thälmann”

    It almost seemed that schoolchildren were born into the Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation.

    13. November 2021
  • Noble Prefabs
    In July 1984, the first tenants moved into the Thälmann-Park

    Hardy Krause was one of the very first residents of Ernst Thälmann Park. As a passionate amateur photographer, he sneaked onto the construction site, photographed excavators and trenches.

    13. November 2021
  • Evermore
    A lyrical interlude

    Helplessness rubs along the surface. Dark foreboding. The snow alone makes the monument look fresh, perhaps even friendly for a moment.

    13. November 2021
  • Irma’s Teddy
    A possible biography of Irma Thälmann

    Irma rarely saw “Teddy” in the flesh. That’s what friends, supporters and comrades called her father.

    13. November 2021
  • The coal palm
    Vineyards – gasworks – Thälmannpark

    Short detour to the actual industrial age. The history of the “IV Berlin Gas Facility” in the district of Prenzlauer Berg, where vineyards and windmills had once stood.

    13. November 2021
  • Flake
    Growing up and everyday life in Prenzlauer Berg

    Black snow in summer. Seen through a child’s eyes, it’s just as beautiful falling from the sky as the white flakes in winter. The black snow was emitted by the gasworks.

    13. November 2021
  • I spy with my little eye
    In 1986 the monument is unveiled

    Inauguration of Ernst Thälmann Park. Hands are raised in greeting in the square and on the balconies of the new high-rise buildings. An army of little waving cats; though none look very jolly or cheerful.

    13. November 2021
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The films are part of the project Thinking from the Pedestal, realised as the outcome of an art competition organised by the District Office of Pankow Berlin for an artistic commentary on the Ernst Thälmann Monument.

Funded by the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Berlin as part of its "Urban Redevelopment" programme.

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