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Wandzeitung 2020
A book published for the exhibition with photographic simulations of the typefaces at the passages

Wandzeitung/Graue Wand (Gray Wall) 2020
chalk, approx. 3 x 3,3 meters
former Wochenkrippe (week nursery), ground floor

Wandzeitung/Schablone Nummer Eins, Zwei und Drei (Stencil Number One, Two and Three). 2020
Paperboard, approx. 2 x 3,5 meters
former Wochenkrippe, second floor
Stencils in original size as the proposal for scriptural wall paintings in the former Juri Gagarin secondary school.

One of three exhibited examples of vintage Wandzeitung, 1960s

Wandzeitung/Modelle (Models). 2020–21
MDF, gouache paint
A group of models of the passages, placed on the ground floor of the exhibition building, are in spatially scaled relationship to each other and oriented according to the real situation

The only permitted scriptural painting on the walls of passage 5, placed near Friedrich-Wolf-Theater.

exhibition Eisenhüttenstadt-zwischen Modell und Museum (Eisenhüttenstadt-Between Model and Museum),
part I/2020 and II/2021, Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany

 

The work thematizes two linguistic phenomena: the banner words of the former socialist state and the advertising slogans from the time after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Two historical periods have produced two models of society that are related but couldn’t be more different: the world of the GDR and that of reunited Germany in the era of the globalised, free market. Two types of phrases are juxtaposed, which can emblematically represent both systems.

Following the tradition of the wall newspaper (Wandzeitung), which was widespread in the GDR, quotations that were exaggerated to their phrase character are interwoven into a „meshwork“. In the juxtaposition of the proclamations that shaped public space than as now, Wandzeitung poses the question of the individual, the place that is assigned to him in the space devised by language.

The project Wall Newspaper is developed in the Technotyp font, designed by Herbert Thannhaeuser in the late 1940s and widely used in the GDR.