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Zweifelheimat
12 Gespräche von Kulturschaffenden der 3. Generation Ost

Shared Heritages: A Diverse New Culture of Remembrance

Zweifelheimat gathers the stories of prominent individuals from the world of art and culture, the political issues they grapple with, and their works of art. The volume of interviews features twelve members of the so-called third generation—people born in the GDR after 1975—who built careers in the arts. Together with their interlocutors, they recount their personal and professional lives and recall formative experiences. Visual artists and directors and actors working in film and on the stage offer their insights; cultural educators and journalists and humanities scholars contribute to the exchange of ideas about identity, roots, classism, and migration. The conversations are embedded in a discourse around the role of art and culture in today’s world. 

Zweifelheimat demonstrates how to discuss differences of background and class in a way that fosters a sensitive and forward-looking debate over “German” identity. With archival materials compiled by the artist Gabriele Stötzer and essays by art historian and curator Angelika Richter, film historian and critic Claus Löser as well as an introduction to the project’s concerns by Matthias Kliefoth and Sandra Teitge.

With

Kathleen Reinhardt, director Georg Kolbe Museum & Gürsoy Doktas, curator

Lars Werner, writer and dramaturge & Mariann Yar, actress

Carolin Würfel, writer and journalist & Anna Ehrenstein, artist

Sung Tieu, artist & Elisa Linn, curator

Wilhelm Klotzek, artist & Tina Bara, artist

Gitte Zschoch, director ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen & Steffen Mau, sociologist 

Aljoscha Begrich, dramaturge and curator/ director of the Festival OSTEN & Peter Richter, journalist

Charlotte Misselwitz, media scholar & Helke Misselwitz, film director

Andreas Mühe, artist & Annegret Hahn, dramaturge

Leon Kahane, artist & Patrice Poutrus, historian

Constanze Klaue, filmmaker & Andreas Dresen, filmmaker

Lynn Rother, provenance researcher, MoMA & Mirjam Zadoff, director Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism