[rohrpost] Einladung 6.11.:_Hartmut Jahn_Die neuen Besitzer der Berliner Mauer

[hartmutjahn at t-online.de]

Hiermit lade ich sehr gerne zu meiner Ausstellung im Auswärtigen Amt
"DIE NEUEN BESITZER DER BERLINER MAUER"

	Das Auswärtige Amt lädt ein

	Zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung

	Am Freitag, 6. November, 19 - 22 Uhr 

	The Sound of Blasmusik Live

	Mauerkünstler LiveOrt: 

	Lichthof des Auswärtigen Amts

	Werderscher Markt 1

	10117 Berlin

	Wo ist die Berliner Mauer? Wer sind ihre neuen Besitzer? Der
Berliner Fotograf und Filmemacher Hartmut Jahn hat die über die Welt
verstreuten Mauerteile aufgespürt. Sie stehen auf der Ranch von Ronald
Reagan, im Vatikan, im japanischen Zen-Garten oder auf Ibiza. Die
großformatigen Panoramafotografien und Interviews mit den neuen
Besitzern geben Aufschluss über ein Monument, das von seiner
ehemaligen Trennungsfunktion zum heutigen Bindeglied
unterschiedlichster Freiheitsvorstellungen wird.

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A small catalogue of 56 pages will be published
contact: pantafilm at t-online.de [1]

Exhibition runs from 7 November to 3 December 2009
Opening hours Mon-Fri 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m., Sat and Sun 10:30 a.m. -
6:30 p.m.
Free entrance.
Tel.: 030-5000-3315   Website: www.auswaertiges-amt.de [2]

Short description:

Where is the Berlin Wall? Who are its new owners? Berlin-based
photographer and filmmaker Hartmut Jahn has tracked down
segments of the Wall scattered around the world. You can find them on
Ronald Reagan’s ranch, at the Vatican or in a Japanese Zen garden.

With this exhibition, being shown for the first time, the Federal
Foreign Office aims to document the complex international dimension of
the Berlin Wall twenty years after it came down. The
largeformat panoramic photographs provide insight into a
monument that was once a means of separation, but has now become the
link between different ideas of freedom. That historic moment, the
fall of the Wall, lent a wealth of new meaning to what was previously
just ugly concrete. The exhibition provides food for thought and an
incentive for individuals to tackle challenges and overcome barriers
themselves.

Background:

In December 1989 the Government of the German Democratic Republic
(GDR, or East Germany) decided to “deconstruct” the Wall. By the end
of 1990 the Wall had disappeared from Berlin’s cityscape. Segments of
the Wall – 3.6 metres high and 1.2 metres wide – were given away or
sold. In June 1990, 81 famous pieces of the Wall from Berlin’s city
centre were auctioned off in Monte Carlo; the minimum bid was 50,000
francs. Twenty years after it fell, the Berlin Wall is scattered
around the world.

The exhibition is going to show::

Ludwik Wasecki
Sosnówka, Silesia voivodeship (province), Poland

Justinian Jampol
The Wende Museum and Archive of the Cold War, Los Angeles, Culver
City, CA

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, Simi Valley, CA

The Swiss Guard, in the garden of Vatican City, Rome

Stacey Bredhoff
Curator, The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston,
MA

Cynthia M. Koch
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, NY

A monk at Toukokuji Temple, Osaka

Edwina Sandys
Sculptor, author and granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill

Artur Zemke
Master craftsman in a formerly stateowned raw materials plant
in Malchin, Mecklenburg (former East Germany)

Olaf Stölt
Entrepreneur, Ibiza, Spain

Marianne Skvarla
Director of  Kentuck Knob, I.N.Hagan House by Frank L.Wright.
Chalk Hill, Pennsylvania

Students
The Johns Hopkins University,
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS),
Washington D.C.

Gale A. Mattox
Professor, Political Science Dpt.,  U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis,
Maryland

Joe Urschel
Director of the Newseum, Washington D.C.

John Wholihan
Professor, College of Business Administration,
Dean Emeritus, main campus of Loyola Marymount University, Los
Angeles

Marilyn J. Harran
Director of the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education, Chapman
University, Orange, CA

Joe Sciamarelli
Interior Designer, Ocean, New Jewrsey, USA

Please note: Additional short texts and photographs are available
upon request.

Biography of Hartmut Jahn
Hartmut Jahn, born 1955 in Hanover, has been living in Berlin since
1976. He studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Freie
Universität Berlin. He began making films and exhibitions in 1980. In
1986 he founded the PANTA film production company. Among the awards he
has received for his work are the Deutscher Videokunstpreis (German
video art award) from the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and the
Golden Gate Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival.
His work has been exhibited online as part of 40yearsvideoart.de –
Digital Heritage, as well as in the following art museums:
Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle Bremen, Lenbachhaus
Munich. The exhibition “Räume des XX. Jahrhunderts III” (20th century
spaces III) was displayed at the New National Gallery in Berlin. He is
professor at the Department of time-based media at Mainz University of
Applied Sciences.

The exhibition
“The New Owners of the Berlin Wall”
– Panoramic photographs by Hartmut Jahn –
is an event organized by the Federal Foreign Office

The project was made possible with funding from:
Foundation for the Study of the SED Dictatorship
DEFA Foundation
PANTAFILM Berlin

and is part of the research program of the
Institute for Media Design, Mainz University of Applied Sciences


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