director Marc Lippa still in search of German-German "crossing borders"
(Marc Lippa , Free Word, June 13, 2009)
Marc Lippa, director and scholar in Schleusinger Künstlerhof writes an occasional series about his project. Today, it is in order to provide the call letters and postcards available, sent 1961-1989 via the inner German border:
Several times I got here in Schleusingen after my call just for the elderly, where the sealing make the limits and the construction of the wall are anchored in the concrete sense, to hear that they had not yet married, some to write something political about it. Nevertheless, the private correspondence from East to West and from West to East, no matter whether he was politically themed or not, if only of historical relevance, because each of these letters, each postcard, each note a "crossing borders" was. I would like to explain with an example: Recently I met a young woman who had read my request and at home, you've found that: A small collection of her cousin-written postcards the young woman had just lifted because the horse pictures were so beautiful . Another letter was between the pages of a cookbook of the young woman because her friend told her from the West is how to make a pizza. With dough and all the trimmings. Harmless teenage Post, "crossing borders", which only seems to have no relevance. Today, it stimulates a smile that had people in the East ever get an explanation of how an Italian national dish prepared is. This letter is just one reason for everyday cultural witness that in the now reunified country generations in very different kind of grew up and these generations are still marked by that division. This is nothing new, but shows in an entertaining way that even a simple recipe can have in a German-German letter meaning. Some Schleusinger have ransacked their old mail and let me have your German-German letters for transcription. covered by David Hasselhoff on reports to leave the Republic of escape, the entire range of adolescent and politically-sensitive. Sorry, there are not yet accumulated enough documents to them - as I intend - To present the beginning of August in one reading. The postcards and letters that are anonymous, of course, should, be regarded without stand as a testimony of a German-German life between joy and terror, without which you and I today would not be where and who we are. Therefore I ask you once again bring out their old letters and to make available to supply the domestic 'cross overrides "to and from Schleusingen possible colorful image that is created both by individual fates as well as by collective memories. Your documents should be sent to Marc Lippa, c / o Künstlerhof Red Ox, Elisabethstr. marc@lippuner.de 8, 98553 Schleusingen , or contact me to arrange an appointment . Thank you.
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