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<h1><img src="/gifs/ausstellungen/aufneu/e_logo.jpg" alt ="[Party Order: A New Germany - Early GDR Iconography]"></h1>
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<h1 align=center><img src="/gifs/ausstellungen/aufneu/e_auftrag.gif" alt="Party Order: A New Germany"></h1>
<h3 align=center>13.12.1996 till 27.5.1997 in the Zeughaus</h3>
<img src="/gifs/ausstellungen/aufneu/1kl.gif" alt="[flag]"><img src="/gifs/ausstellungen/aufneu/4kl.gif" alt="[flag]"><img src="/gifs/ausstellungen/aufneu/6kl.gif" alt="[flag]"><img src="/gifs/ausstellungen/aufneu/8kl.gif" alt="[Fahne]"><p>
<I>Put the junker's land in the peasant's hand!, To learn from
the Soviet Union means to learn victory!, Reach and reach beyond
the plan!, Overtake the historical stage without entering
it!</i> These and other such slogans were presented at Socialist Unity
Party (SED) congresses. Within the territory of the German Democratic
Republic during the fifties, such motivating words were omnipresent
in newspapers, on posters and on banners. They served as a source
of ideological motivation for the population.
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The exhibition <B>Party Line: A New Germany</B> focuses on the
SED's design impetus as it developed after 1945 under the influence
of the Soviet occupation forces. More than 700 objects, among
them many posters, photos, brochures, busts and flags, demonstrate
the Soviet Occupied Zone/GDR phenomenon in its visual appearance.
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The in-depth reflection of the GDR's early period documents the
Party's propagandistic efforts in its battle for political power.
The methods and models for agitation and propaganda that were
developed by the Information Department of the Central Committee
of the SED unveil a partial citation of National Socialist and
Soviet formal language. Flag bearers, marching columns, demonstrations
with torches and chants as well as all-encompassing staging of
public space with state and party emblems are not to be seen as
independent of SED power in the fifties. Martial demonstrations
were celebrated as <I>peace demonstrations</I> on May 1st, October
7th, (the anniversary of the founding of the GDR) and November
7th (the "Day of the October Revolution"). These events
repeatedly offered the possibility to proclaim the <I>final victory
of socialism</I>.
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Using powerful means, the <I>new Germany</I> was transformed into
an ideological landscape, a state-decreed "total work of
art" with a socialist aim. Each turn of the wrist was <I>an
act for peace</I>, each different use of material <I>a victory
for socialism</I> and each time the price of bread decreased,
<I>the superiority of a planned economy over capitalism</I> was
proven. But the GDR's numerous economic plans competed with little
success against the West German "economic miracle". Over
three million GDR citizens left the country before the construction
of the Berlin Wall in 1961.
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The themes of the exhibition illustrate which aspects of public
life were dominated by state propaganda. These themes take on
GDR terminology: <I>What anti-fascists Fought for is Reality in
the GDR; Each German Patriot Assists in the Reconstruction of
Berlin; We Set the Republic's Table for the Birthday Celebration;
Peace Must Be Fought For; I Fulfilled the Five-Year Plan in One
Year; From Me to Us; Stalin is Peace; Socialism is Victorious</I>.
These and other campaigns draw the profile for the exhibition.
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The project "Party Line: A New Germany" is a part of
our exhibition series on the cultural history of the GDR initiated
in 1991 with "Departure and Beginning" and continued
in 1992 with "Germany in the Cold War 1945 - 1963".
"Stations of Life in Germany 1900 - 1993" followed in
1993, "On Commission: Art" in 1995. The series will
be extended next year with <a href="../Wolfsburg.html">"Wolfsburg - Stalinstadt (Eisenhüttenstadt)"</a>
and "Bohème and Dictatorship" (preliminary working
title).
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Koehler & Amelang have published a richly illustrated collection
of essays that also addresses issues beyond the exhibition framework.
(DM 58,-, <a href="http://www.dhm.de/cgi-bin/publi_zwisu?!XX4340">electronic mail order</a>).
The book has 496 pages, over 550 mostly colour illustrations.
An audio CD with radio recordings from the early GDR is also available.
(DM 9,95, <a href="http://www.dhm.de/cgi-bin/publi_zwisu?!XX2522">electronic mail order</a>).
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