2 channel video installation
video interview with Gerhard Wolf
and various filmed book
covers of workers’ writers literature
of the Weimar Republic
until the end of the GDR, 2024
34,28 Min. with English subtitles

Greif zur Feder, exhibition view Haus der Statistik, Berlin 2024

Greif zur Feder

The video installation Greif zur Feder consists of a video interview with the writer Gerhard Wolf, as well as a selection of Workers’ Writers Literature from the 1920 up to the end of 1989. Between 1959 and 1962, Gerhard Wolf and his wife, the writer Christa Wolf supervised a circle of writing workers at Waggonbau Ammendorf in Halle. Gerhard and Christa Wolf belonged to the subsequent generation of writers who enthusiastically embraced ideas of socialist realism in its early years and later developed a style that led to conflicts with the GDR regime.

Greif zur Feder, exhibition view with original books municipal gallery futura, Berlin 2021