Tag: National Socialism
Art under National Socialism: Quiet happiness, cozy NS home – Bavaria
Nicer living in the National Socialist artists’ village, Nazi commercial graphics and “Stürmer” illustrations: Nuremberg’s artists knew how to set themselves up oppressively well in the city of the Nazi…
5000 marks for Gerd Müller: Petra Leufstedt heads the FC Bayern Museum – Munich
There are, for example, Sepp Maier’s football shoes from the 1960s, which are quite battered. There is the receipt for 5000 marks that FC Bayern had to pay for the…
Munich: Former teacher publishes chronicle of the Luisengynasium – Munich
Horst Rückert was 14 years old at the Luisengymnasium. From 1979 to 1990 as a teacher and again from 2009 to 2012 as an “employee in the directorate”. Years he…
Thekla Carola Wied in “Martha Liebermann – A Stolen Life”. – Media
Is it correct? A little deeper? Or is it higher? Martha Liebermann is standing in the salon of the stately villa at Wannsee and considering the height at which she…
“Hindenburglinde” in Ramsau: honor where none is due – Bavaria
“The largest, oldest or otherwise strange trees in Bavaria in words and pictures” was described by Friedrich Stützer in his book of the same name as early as 1900. Although…
Incriminated street names in Dachau: an honor that is not due to everyone – Dachau
They were National Socialists or were close to them, one wrote anti-Semitic pamphlets, another glorified German colonial policy and created works of art for the Nazi regime – and streets…
Munich: An artist who combines Dachau’s history – Dachau
Nina Schiffner dreams of “blue-faced” bears, of her grandmother, of the cemetery. What she experiences subconsciously at night and what she can still remember from it, she sometimes writes down…
Georg Baselitz protests against Nazi work in the Pinakothek der Moderne – Culture
Of Jörg Haentzschel Art museums all over the world shake up their exhibitions. They are showing more works by women, non-Europeans, taking alternative paths away from the canon. So does…
Nuremberg: 20 million euros for culture in the former Nazi congress hall – Bavaria
With 20 million euros, the federal government wants to promote spaces for the independent art and culture scene in the congress hall on the former Nazi party rally grounds. The…
The books of the month – culture
Jens Balzer – Ethics of Appropriation, Matthes & Seitz Criticism of cultural appropriation in popular culture has gone from being an academic niche subject to a hot topic that consistently…