Thingstätten
The Relevance of the Past for the Present
Between 1933 and 1936, so-called “Thingstätte” were erected as propagandistic open-air theaters and meeting places for National Socialism. Four hundred were planned, and around sixty constructed. Many of these today almost barely known sites, can still be found in Germany, Poland, and Russia. In the form of an interdisciplinary research project, art and documentation, texts and images by twenty-three international artists and scholars facilitate a pluralistic examination of the unusual history of the “Thingstätte” and the relevance of the past for the present.
For further reading and supplementary material visit the project website.
Artists
Katharina Bosse, Rebecca Budde de Cancino, Doug Fitch, Jan Merlin Friedrich, Jakob Ganslmeier, Andrea Grützner, Rebecca Hackemann, Konstantin Karchevskiy, Hendrik Lüders, Daniel Mirer, Felix Nürmberger, Ralph Pache, Abhijit Pal, Philipp Robien, Jewgeni Roppel, Simon Schubert, Kuno Seltmann, Erica Shires, Thomas Wrede
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April 2020
ISBN 978-3-7356-0699-0
24 × 30 cm
256 pages
164 colored and 56 b/w illustrations
Paperback
Languages: English
Editor
Katharina Bosse
Text by
Katharina Bosse, Bernhard Gelderblom, Gerwin Strobl, Beata Wielgosik, Stefan Wunsch
Design by
Nathow & Geppert, Bielefeld
Events
Thingstätten, Kunst/&Raum Elsa, Bielefeld: 25. April –24. Juni 2020
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