Angela Zumpe

Und die Geister nehme ich mit ... ein persönlicher Werkstattbericht

Bauhaus lehren und denken in der Nachwendezeit

Angela Zumpe (b. 1953 in Berlin, lives and works in Berlin) is a filmmaker, media artist, and painter. In Und die Geister nehme ich mit ... she tells her personal story, as well as her encounter with the Bauhaus in Dessau after German reunification – a time of change, new beginnings, and new foundations. In 1998, Angela Zumpe followed the call to the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences and became Professor for Visual Media in the Department of Design, where she helped shape new ways of life and teaching.

This publication is a fragmentary autobiography in images and, with its workshop-style report, establishes numerous references to the historical Bauhaus, since, to this day, the design approaches to form and material have lost none of their validity. And, like the founders of the Bauhaus, in the early years of the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau, the next generation also possessed a spirit of optimism and were inspired by a will to work experimentally and develop interdisciplinary and cross-media impulses for social renewal from their respective fields. Thus, the author also reflects on the current educational system and possible spaces for creative thought spaces – then and now. At the same time, she documents her artistic development, which she has continued to advance over the years in Dessau. With a text by Bazon Brock on the artist's biography.