Center for European Studies

Please join us on Wednesday, March 11th at 11:45 in 005 Keene-Flint Hall for a lunchtime discussion led by Dr. Frank Wolff as he addresses the different visualizations of the Berlin Wall in the 1960s.  As Dr. Wolff will discuss, these different visualizations had much to do with the opposing discourses of East Germany and West Germany, as they each struggled to frame the “wall society” and in the process to delegitimize the other side.   Dr. Wolff’s talk will feature actual photographs and images used in political exhibitions, state publications, and children’s drawings to demonstrate the “propagandistic objectivism” present in East and West German portrayals of the Berlin Wall. Dr. Wolff is an Assistant Professor of Modern History at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University,