Nebliges Feld, knietief im Morast. Zeitgenössische Kunststrategien zu Flucht und Vertreibung
Misty field, knee-deep in mire. About german contemporary artistic strategies on flight and expulsion

Author(s): Heidi Stecker
Subject(s): Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, German Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: contemporary art; flight and expulsion
Summary/Abstract: On the basis of relevant works of art contemporary concepts about remembrance will be presented to the forced migration of Germans. This is Christine Bachmann with “BIRKENORT. VANISHING POINTS”, Rosemarie Zens with The Sea Remembers David Adam with Marie Scheibner, among other things, Heike Lydia Grüß with Der getrübte Körper/The clouded body, Yvon Chabrowski with Sun + Land + Diagonal and Sven Johne with Ostpreußen/East Prussia. The works were created in the period from 2003 to 2014 and situate itself in the Czech Republic, Poland and the Kaliningradskaya Oblast. The media of photography and film are preferred. The focus is on critical analysis of the traditional canon of motifs, with image structures and mechanisms of presentation.

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