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Hartmut Jahn «Inter-German Fragments»
Hartmut Jahn, «Inter-German Fragments», 1986
© Hartmut Jahn
This experimental video deals with relations between the two German states in the 1950s and 1960s. Two identical-looking girls lead the viewer through a collage of images relating to East and West Germany: the Brandenburg Gate, nostalgic-looking packaging from the 1950s in East and West, the Berlin Wall and TV pictures of such politicians as Nixon, Ulbricht, Brandt and Erhard. There are moments of wry humour, as when parts of the Wall fortifications on the Eastern side are revealed to be as flimsy as papier-m‚chÈ. The motif of the double, introduced by the two girls, is taken up in formal terms elsewhere in the video, for example in mirror-image montages of pictures within pictures and in an acoustic confrontation between a Pop song and its reinterpretation.


 
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Keywords: History | East/West

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 Hartmut Jahn
«Inter-German Fragments»

This experimental video deals with relations between the two German states in the 1950s and 1960s. Two identical-looking girls lead the viewer through a collage of images relating to East and West Germany: the Brandenburg Gate, nostalgic-looking packaging from the 1950s in East and West, the Berlin Wall and TV pictures of such politicians as Nixon, Ulbricht, Brandt and Erhard. There are moments of wry humour, as when parts of the Wall fortifications on the Eastern side are revealed to be as flimsy as papier-m‚chÈ. The motif of the double, introduced by the two girls, is taken up in formal terms elsewhere in the video, for example in mirror-image montages of pictures within pictures and in an acoustic confrontation between a Pop song and its reinterpretation.