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- Title
Transformationsraum Fotografie: Berlin-Hellersdorf am Übergang von DDR Zu BRD.
- Authors
Bräunert, Svea
- Abstract
Built between 1979 and 1991, the housing complex Berlin-Hellersdorf was one of the last and most ambitious construction projects of the GDR. Located at the interstice between East and West Germany, Hellersdorf can thus be seen as a space conducive to thinking about the 1990s post-socialist transformations. The 1998 interdisciplinary project "Peripherie als Ort. Das Hellersdorf Projekt" picks up on this idea. Focusing on the works of Ulrich Wüst and Helga Paris, who have contributed to the Hellersdorf Project, the following essay analyses the role photography and architecture play as indices of socio-political and spatial transitions. Entering into a dialogue with photography, East German prefab housing, commonly referred to as 'Platte', becomes a mnemonic space whose parallactic perspectives are materially bound to the past without denying the changing present. As such, Hellersdorf presents itself as a complex space outside Berlin's city centre that invites reflections about the transformations that have taken place since German unification.
- Subjects
GERMANY (East); ARCHITECTURE; ARCHITECTURE &; photography; PUBLIC housing -- Social aspects; PARIS, Helga; WUEST, Ulrich; TWENTIETH century; SOCIAL conditions in Germany
- Publication
German Life & Letters, 2010, Vol 63, Issue 4, p417
- ISSN
0016-8777
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0483.2010.01508.x