Everyone welcome the launch of our book

wildes widerholen. material von unten. Dissidente Geschichten in DDR und pOstdeutschland.

on 8 December 3 – 8 pm

Haus 7 (5th & 6th floor) Campus für Demokratie, Haus 7
Ruschestraße 103, 10365 Berlin-Lichtenberg

PROGRAM

3 pm Exhibition Opening: Turnen/Gymnastics: A Vocabulary of Revolutionary Gestures
A site-specific exhibition about dissident bodies in the former gymnastics hall of the Stasi by Elske Rosenfeld, with works of Gabriele Stötzer, Wolfgang Scholz and Elske Rosenfeld in an installation by Andrea Pichl, organised by Archive Books
Introduction by Andrea Pichl and Elske Rosenfeld, over Bread and Schnaps

4 – 5.30 pm East German Underground Sound 1979-1990 and “Legeparty”
Punkrock, Postpunk and related sounds – a musical commentary to wild recuperation. material from below by Henryk Gericke, author and curator of ostPUNK! – too much future
& collective Samizdat-stapling session with the 1989 samizdat URKUNDE – 40 Years of the GDR introduced by artist Anna Zett

5.30 pm Book Presentation wild recuperations. material from below
Dissident Stories between GDR and pOstdeutschland #1
with the archivists, contributors, editors and publishers

6.30 pm Conversation about Black feminism and antifascist self-organisation between GDR and pOstdeutschland
with Ina Röder Sissoko, active in the women*s and lesbian movements of the GDR and, from 1989, in the Black feminist movement in Germany

Supported by the Berliner Beauftragten zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur.