| 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. Thingstätten | The Relevance of the Past for the Present is both a reference work and a catalogue, in which individual Thingplätze serve as intersections where the perspectives of different artistic or historical investigations overlap. 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 |
| Thingstätten | The Relevance of the Past for the Present ISBN 978-3-7356-0699-0 [ENG] Available through D.A.P. 24 × 30 cm 256 Pages Paperback Languages: English Editor Katharina Bosse Text by Katharina Bosse, Bernhard Gelderblom, Gerwin Strobl, Beata Wielgosik, Stefan Wunsch Design by Nathow & Geppert, Bielefeld |
Press Images Heidelberg © Felix Nürmberger Heidelberg, historische Postkarte Herchen © Jewgeni Roppel Herchen © Katharina Bosse, Doug Fitch Holzminden © Erica Shires Northeim, historische Postkarte Prawdinsk, Russland © Konstantin Karchevskiy Vogelsang © Katharina Bosse Berlin © Daniel Mirer Verden © Daniel Mirer Bad Segeberg © Katharina Bosse Bad Segeberg © Katharina Bosse |
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