{"id":5622,"date":"2021-11-16T16:27:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T15:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vomsockeldenken.de\/project\/"},"modified":"2021-12-15T13:03:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T12:03:36","slug":"project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vomsockeldenken.de\/en\/project\/","title":{"rendered":"Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

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[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_gallery type=”flexslider_slide” interval=”5″ images=”5389,5391,5656,5654,5394,5395,5396,5397,5398,5399,5382,5400,5401,5402,5403,5404,5405,5658,5798,5866,5868,5874,5870,5800,5876,5878,5880,5802,5882″ img_size=”full” onclick=”” css_animation=”slideInRight” lazy_load=”yes”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]After extensive preparation under the management of Annette Tietz, in 2019 the district office of Pankow invited entries from all over Germany to the competition Artistic Commentary on the Ernst Th\u00e4lmann Monument<\/em><\/a>. 110 artists submitted proposals, from which the jury selected ten projects to be elaborated further. In September 2020, the jury recommended Betina Kuntzsch’s THINKING FROM THE PEDESTAL for realization.<\/p>\n

This marked the start of some exciting research. Together with dramaturge Christina Schmidt, Betina Kuntzsch spent a year scouring public and private archives, museum depots and municipal collections, talking to people who live in Ernst Th\u00e4lmann Park, interviewing historians and the composer of the pioneer song, and visiting Th\u00e4lmann’s granddaughter.<\/p>\n

In cooperation with producer Maria Wischnewski and her Koberstein Film team, subsequently ten short, entertaining film essays were created from the findings. Ten more films could be made from the remaining material. Betina Kuntzsch employs the artistic commentary on the Th\u00e4lmann monument for a multi-layered visual arc documenting the history of the site in all its complexity – and tells a vivid and humorous story of growing up and living in the GDR.<\/p>\n

Secret protocols from the Nazi era as well as children’s drawings around the SED\u2019s Th\u00e4lmann cult demonstrate how incisively the political can sneak into the private sphere and even into our children’s bedrooms.<\/p>\n

The invitation to tender called for an improvement in the quality of the open space in front of the monument. And where better to think from the pedestal<\/em> than on one? Betina Kuntzsch designed five concrete elements for her artistic intervention, perfecting and realizing them in cooperation with the company Betonware. Coral red pedestals on a human scale. Counterpoints to the monotony of the former parade ground as well as to the monument\u2019s own overpowering aesthetics. Reduced to scale, now people can sit on them, lie on them, engage in conversation with each other, or take their own turn on the proverbial pedestal – perhaps as a COAL PALM, HEAD FIST FLAG, or NECKERCHIEF: film titles that are carved in relief on the sides of the coral elements. They are also modelled on the original, set in place of the words “Ernst Th\u00e4lmann” and “Red Front” written there.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”64px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

THINKING FROM THE PEDESTAL<\/h2>\n

Artistic commentary on the Ernst Th\u00e4lmann Monument<\/p>\n

Idea, Concept, Realisation<\/h3>\n

Betina Kuntzsch<\/p>\n

Concrete Pedestal<\/h3>\n

Manufacture and erection: Betonware Berlin
\nConsultation: Arthur Numrich
\nModel building: Friedrich Gobbesso
\nTypography: Cornelia Ellinger
\nQR-code signs: Becker Schilderfertigung<\/p>\n

Website<\/h3>\n

Design and programming: Jens Hoffmeister
\nTexts: Michaela Nolte
\nTranslation: Lucinda Rennison<\/p>\n

Heartfelt thanks to the District Office Pankow, Berlin
\nOffice for Further Education and Culture, Department of Art and Culture
\nAnnette Tietz, Paula B\u00f6ttcher, Enkidu Leyendecker<\/p>\n

Film Team<\/h3>\n

Screenplay, direction, animations, editing: Betina Kuntzsch
\nDramaturgy, research: Christina Schmidt
\nCamera: Sven Boeck, Martin Langner, Claire Roggan, Betina Kuntzsch
\nProducer: Maria Wischnewski
\nProduction assistance: Lilly Rinklebe
\nComposition: Joachim Gies
\nSaxophone, percussion, electronics: Joachim Gies
\nSampling, electronics: Michael Walz
\nPercussion: Denis Stilke
\nSpeakers: Claudia Mehnert, Betina Kuntzsch
\nSpeech recording: Urs Hauck
\nSound design, sound mixing: Michael Walz
\nTechnical support: Helmuth Schneider
\nSubtitling: Babelfisch translations<\/p>\n

Archive material<\/h3>\n

GASAG AG Berlin
\nAFC Energie Berlin | ars cinema berlin e. V. | Rainer H\u00e4sselbarth | Filmmuseum Potsdam
\nStasi-Unterlagen-Archiv Berlin, Bundesarchiv
\nddrbildarchiv
\nDeutsche Fotothek
\nStiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum
\nDeutsches Rundfunkarchiv
\nWolfgang Fischer
\nMahn- und Gedenkst\u00e4tte Ravensbr\u00fcck, Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkst\u00e4tten
\nBetina Kuntzsch
\nProf. Dietmar Kuntzsch
\nHansgert Lambers
\nStiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin | Jochen Haupt
\nRegina Scheer
\nHans Scherner
\nAndreas Strozyk
\nMuseum Pankow
\nPROGRESS Film GmbH
\nRobert-Havemann-Gesellschaft e.V. | Werner Fischer | Rolf Z\u00f6llner
\nStadtarchiv Neubrandenburg
\nKunstgussmuseum Lauchhammer
\ndpa Picture-Alliance GmbH
\nSony Music Entertainment Germany GmbH<\/p>\n

Children\u2019s drawings<\/h3>\n

Betina Kuntzsch
\nAnnette Schulze-R\u00f6ger
\nPhilipp Karst\u00e4dt
\nOlf Kreisel
\nUta Rinklebe
\nChristina Schmidt
\nSabine Schmidt
\nClaudia Kuntzsch
\nMaria Wischnewski<\/p>\n

Poem \u201fimmerdar\u201d by Kathrin Schmidt from \u201fsommerschaums ernte\u201d
\nKiepenheuer & Witsch 2020<\/p>\n

Song \u201fSo ist ein Pionier\u201d by Reinhold Andert, recorded in the Friedrichstadtpalast 1974
\nAmiga | Sony Music Entertainment Germany GmbH<\/p>\n

Thanks to:<\/h3>\n

Reinhold Andert, AnwohnerInitiative Ernst-Th\u00e4lmann-Park, S\u00f6ren Benn, Paula B\u00f6ttcher
\nWolfgang Cortjaens, Vera Dehle-Th\u00e4lmann, Ralf Forster, Philipp Herb, Ines Hahn, Philipp Karst\u00e4dt
\nAnne Dorte Krause, Reinhard Krause, Olf Kreisel, Claudia Kuntzsch, Prof. Dietmar Kuntzsch
\nKiepenheuer & Witsch, Annette Leo, Martin Lutzens, Enkidu Leyendecker, Ingrid Meyer, Michaela Nolte
\nChristoph Ochs, Britta Pawelke, Uta Rinklebe, Regina Scheer, Hans Scherner, Sabine Schmidt
\nAntje Schneider, Annette Schulze-R\u00f6ger, Hans Soost \u2020 and Martina Nischewoff
\nSony Music Entertainment Germany GmbH, Annette Tietz, Robert Wein, Eleonore Wolf, Nina Ziesemer<\/p>\n

Special thanks to the Museum Pankow, Beate B\u00f6hnisch and Bernt Roder<\/p>\n

\u00a9 KOBERSTEIN FILM | Betina Kuntzsch | Bezirksamt Pankow von Berlin<\/p>\n

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