{"id":11160,"date":"2024-04-30T16:25:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/?p=11160"},"modified":"2024-06-07T16:32:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:32:11","slug":"totentanz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/news\/totentanz\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance of death. 1923 and its consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row type=”vc_default” gap=”35″][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text css=””]READING<\/strong><\/p>\n

on May 17, 2024\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/div>[vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1714486422205{padding-right: 20px !important;border-radius: 1px !important;border-color: #f08500 !important;}”]The publication “Totentanz” is also available in our museum shop on site.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1714486348536{padding-right: 50px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

Jutta Hoffritz reads from her book about 1923 – the year of inflation<\/h3>\n

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<\/div>[vc_single_image image=”11133″ img_size=”large” onclick=”img_link_large” css=”.vc_custom_1714482211659{padding-right: 20px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text css=””]In a letter to her son and daughter-in-law, who were on holiday, K\u00e4the Kollwitz wrote at the end of September 1923:<\/p>\n

“By the way, as far as the salary is concerned: a messenger is not entrusted with the money, it would have to be fetched. (It is almost 2 billion). Since I can’t (…), it will probably have to stay there until after the 1st.”<\/em><\/p>\n

An extremely impressive salary, you might think, were 1923 not the year of hyperinflation in Germany. In September, the artist probably paid at least 75,000 marks postage for the letter to Hans. The holiday card from Hiddensee, weeks earlier, had still been comparatively cheap at 50 marks. In November 1923, letter postage in the German Reich finally climbed to 1 billion marks. These figures are difficult for us to comprehend today. How could everyday life be managed at that time with this extreme devaluation of money?[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text css=””]Hamburg journalist Jutta Hoffritz<\/strong> explored this question in her book “Dance of death. 1923 and its consequences” and will read from it at the K\u00e4the Kollwitz Museum Berlin on May 17, 2024.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=””]Her grandmother’s stories about her experiences in the Ruhr area in 1923 sparked the author’s interest in the topic of inflation at an early age. Jutta Hoffritz has been writing for DIE ZEIT for 20 years, for example about the history of monetary policy, and also writes articles for Deutschlandfunk radio. The book on hyperinflation was inspired by a “calendar page” published to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Hugo Stinnes, a man who made money from inflation.<\/p>\n

Alongside other well-known figures from contemporary history, the author also repeatedly refers to K\u00e4the Kollwitz. The poster “Germany’s Children are starving!”<\/em>, created by the Berlin artist for the Workers’ Welfare Association, is a symbol of the developments in 1923.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner]

<\/div>[vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5\/6″][vc_single_image image=”11130″ img_size=”full” onclick=”link_image” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]K\u00e4the Kollwitz, Germany’s Children are starving!<\/em>, poster, 1923, lithograph
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Workshop<\/p>\n

DRUCKWERKSTATT<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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12.00 bis 15.00 Uhr<\/strong><\/p>\n

K\u00e4the Kollwitz hat nicht nur Bilder gezeichnet, sondern auch Druckgraphiken hergestellt – zum Beispiel f\u00fcr Flugbl\u00e4tter und Plakate, wie ihr ber\u00fchmtes Plakat “Nie wieder Krieg!”.<\/p>\n

Im Workshop gibt es n\u00e4heres \u00fcber k\u00fcnstlerische Drucktechniken zu erfahren, Bildbeispiele von K\u00e4the Kollwitz in der Ausstellung zu sehen und die gro\u00dfe Ausdruckskraft dieser Bildsprache kennenzulernen. Anschlie\u00dfend k\u00f6nnen eigene Werke mit einem \u00e4hnlichen Verfahren gestaltet und sich dabei so richtig ausgedruckt werden!<\/p>\n

Der Workshop wird in Kooperation mit Jugend Im Museum<\/em>\u00a0e.V. angeboten.<\/p>\n

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Drop-In-Angebot<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bringen Sie min. 1 Stunde Arbeits\u00adzeit mit.
\nZeit\u00ad\u00adgleich k\u00f6nnen maximal\u00a0drei Familien oder\u00a0Haus\u00ad\u00adhalte teil\u00ad\u00adnehmen.<\/p>\n

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Sprachen:<\/b> Deutsch, Spanisch<\/p>\n

Altersempfehlung:<\/b> Ab 8 Jahren<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Digitaler Begleiter<\/p>\n

KOLLWITZ-GUIDE<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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11.00 bis 16.00 Uhr<\/strong><\/p>\n

Individuell und anspruchsvoll begleitet, kann man kontaktlos mit dem Kollwitz-Guide<\/strong> durch die R\u00e4ume der Dauerausstellung streifen.<\/p>\n

Mit spannenden kulturhistorischen und biografischen Hintergrundinformationen werden die Zeichnungen, Graphiken und Plastiken von K\u00e4the Kollwitz in den zeitlichen Kontext gesetzt.<\/p>\n

Der Multimedia-Guide ist bequem auf dem eigenen Smartphone im Browser zu \u00f6ffnen \u2013 eine App zu installieren ist nicht notwendig.<\/p>\n

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Sprachen:<\/b> Englisch, Deutsch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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READING<\/p>\n

How did K\u00e4the Kollwitz and her contemporaries experience the inflation year of 1923?
\nJutta Hoffritz has investigated this question and reads from her book about the rapid decline of the paper mark in the German Reich.<\/p>\n

Friday, May 17, 2024
\n19.00
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