Abstract<\/strong> | The visual essay is based on research carried out between 2010 and 2015 under the title \u201cBodies of Crisis\u2014Remembering the German Wende<\/em>.\u201d The project mainly consisted of oral-history research and a series of performance events presented in the UK and Germany. In 27 interviews, women from East Germany recollected their embodied quotidian experience amidst the political transition from a socialist to a capitalist state in 1989 and thereafter. Live performance opened up access points for a transcultural translation of this experience involving practitioners from diverse cultural and creative backgrounds. The performance work extended the culturally specific experience beyond the East German case by pointing toward global struggles for existence, acceptance, and emancipation.<\/div><\/p>\n
R\u00e9sum\u00e9\u00a0<\/strong>| Cet essai visuel est le r\u00e9sultat du projet d\u2019\u00e9tudes \u00abBodies of Crisis \u2013 Remembering the German Wende<\/em>\u00bb (Corps de la crise \u2013 Souvenir de la chute du Mur), r\u00e9alis\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Warwick de 2010 \u00e0 2015. Au moyen de 27 interviews, des femmes de l\u2019Allemagne de l\u2019Est se sont rem\u00e9mor\u00e9 les exp\u00e9riences corporelles de leur vie quotidienne pendant l\u2019\u00e9poque troubl\u00e9e de 1989 et 1990. Ces interviews ont jet\u00e9 la base d\u2019un spectacle vivant impliquant des artistes vari\u00e9s, ouvrant un espace d\u2019expression transculturel et artistique de ces exp\u00e9riences de temps de crise. La performance a montr\u00e9 l\u2019universalit\u00e9 des exp\u00e9riences sp\u00e9cifiques de l\u2019Allemagne de l\u2019Est au regard des enjeux mondiaux que sont la survie, la reconnaissance et l\u2019\u00e9mancipation.<\/div><\/div>\n
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Maria Hetzer\u00a0|\u00a0Berlin<\/p>\n
Negotiating Memories of Everyday Life during the Wende<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n
T<\/span>he visual essay is based on collaborative research a group of performance-based researchers conducted between 2010 and 2015 under the title \u201cBodies of Crisis\u2014Remembering the German Wende<\/em>.\u201d The project mainly consisted of oral-history research and a series of performance events presented in the UK and Germany. In 27 interviews, women from East Germany recollected their embodied quotidian experience amidst the political transition from a socialist to a capitalist state in 1989 and thereafter. Live performance opened up access points for a transcultural translation of this experience involving practitioners from diverse cultural and creative backgrounds. The performance work extended the culturally specific experience beyond the East German case by pointing toward global struggles for existence, acceptance, and emancipation. The following sequence of images and clips invites readers to reflect on the embodied quotidian as a valuable approach to the study of the historical experience of 1989. Short commentaries consider how memories of somatic quotidian experience influence the experience of the body vis-\u00e0-vis wider social change.<\/p>\n
Performance collaborators: Maiada Aboud, endurance art researcher (UK\/Israel); Jessica Argyridou, video performance artist (Cyprus); David Bennett, dancer-researcher (UK); Michael Grass, heritage researcher and visual designer (UK\/Germany); Linos Tzelos, musician (Greece). Further studio collaborators: Elia Zacharioudaki, actress (Greece); Osama Suleiman, media artist (Saudi Arabia\/Jordan); Gordon Palagi, actor (USA).<\/p>\n
Copyright lies with the project or photographers\/agencies referenced in the image captions. Project photographers for Bodies of Crisis:<\/em> Michael Grass (MG), Maria Rankin (MR), Ian O\u2019Donoghue (IOD). My sincere thanks go to Se\u00e1n Allan and Nicolas Whybrow, who supervised this research project, as well as Marc Silberman and two anonymous reviewers who made valuable comments on a draft of this essay. More information on the performance research can be found on the project\u2019s website http:\/\/bodycrisis.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Clip and Image Notes<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Image 1: \u201cTasting apples.\u201d Copyright by Bodycrisis, Michael Grass.<\/p>\n
Image 2: \u201cNovember 4, 1989, Berlin, Alexanderplatz.\u201d Copyright by Andreas K\u00e4mper, Robert Havemann Gesellschaft, 1989. Available online: revolution89.de\/fileadmin\/_processed_\/csm_O_3.9.1_02_org_8b629c5d5d.jpg<\/p>\n
Image 3: \u201cRound Table talks, East Berlin, 1989.\u201d Copyright by dpa \/ BAKS. Available online:<\/p>\n
baks.bund.de\/de\/aktuelles\/20-jahre-runder-tisch-in-polen-und-deutschland-demokratie-und-freiheit-in-europa<\/p>\n
Image 4: \u201cKommune I<\/em>, the most famous squat in Mainzer Stra\u00dfe, East Berlin 1990.\u201d Copyright by Umbruch Bildarchiv.<\/p>\n
Image 5: \u201cExample of an East German supermarket (Kaufhalle<\/em>) addressing the desires of East Germans in 1990.\u201d Copyright by dpa \/ MZ.web. Available online: mz-web.de\/kultur\/ddr-geschichte-streit-um-vergangenheit-entzweit-viele-menschen-3193808<\/p>\n
Image 6: \u201cYoung East German woman eating.\u201d Copyright by Bodycrisis, private.<\/p>\n
Image 7: \u201cThe ambivalence of everyday practice in a state crisis. Scene from the performance, Apples.\u201d<\/em> Copyright by Bodycrisis, Ian O\u2019Donoghue, 2012.<\/p>\n
Image 8: \u201cAn East German woman\u2019s application to a Western employer marked down \u201cMinus Ossi\u201d.\u201d Copyright by dpa \/ n24.de. Available online: www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de\/media.media.f7378dec-32a6-4b52-b51a-1f3cf99b354c.normalized.jpeg<\/p>\n
Image 9: \u201cPlan for the \u201cNew Berlin\u201d 1997. Map of Berlin with demarcation of Wall.\u201d Copyright Senatsverwaltung f\u00fcr Stadtentwicklung Berlin, 1997.<\/p>\n
Image 10: \u201cProjecting histories onto bodies.\u201d Copyright by Bodycrisis, Ian O\u2019Donoghue, 2012.<\/p>\n
Image 11: \u201cTranslating the comfort zone of stereotyping.\u201d Copyright by Bodycrisis, Maria Rankin, 2012.<\/p>\n
Image 12: \u201cTentatively exploring cultural practices for room to maneuver.\u201d Copyright by Bodycrisis, Maria Rankin, 2012.<\/p>\n
Image 13: \u201cScene from the performance, The map.\u201d <\/em>Copyright by Bodycrisis, Ian O\u2019Donoghue, 2012.<\/p>\n
Image 14: \u201cJahrhundertschritt<\/em> by Wolfgang Mattheuer.\u201d Copyright Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Available online: zeithistorische-forschungen.de\/sites\/default\/files\/medien\/static\/mattheuer1.jpg<\/p>\n
Image 15: \u201cEast German bathing.\u201d Copyright by Eulenspiegel Verlag \/ Welt.de.<\/p>\n
Image 16: \u201cParticipants of the 1941 conference of British Naturists\u2019 Associations.\u201d Copyright by IMAGO \/ Welt.de.<\/p>\n
Image 17: \u201cGDR stamp illustrating allegiance to a global fight against racism incorporating a drawing by John Heartfield.\u201d Copyright by Nightflyer. Available online: de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Datei:Stamps_of_Germany_(DDR)_1971,_MiNr_1702.jpg<\/p>\n
Image 18: \u201cThe fist as a symbol for global feminist struggle.\u201d Copyright by history.org.uk. Available online: goo.gl\/images\/u9d1uK<\/p>\n
Image 19: \u201cThe Olympic team of the FRG, June 1972.\u201d Copyright by ullstein bild \/ Tagesspiegel.de. Available online: tagesspiegel.de\/images\/heprodimagesfotos85120130902_imago-jpg\/8725044\/4-format2.jpg<\/p>\n
Image 20: \u201cScene from performance work, Fist<\/em>.\u201d Copyright by Bodycrisis, Michael Grass, 2012.<\/p>\n
Image 21: \u201cScene from performance work, Tub<\/em>.\u201d Copyright by Bodycrisis, Michael Grass, 2012.<\/p>\n
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