East German Working Worlds

Work, Life and Love

Christine Becker, Sibylle Bergemann, Christian Borchert, Heinz Dargelis, Arno Fischer, Barbara Metselaar Berthold, Helga Paris, Evelyn Richter, Uwe Steinberg, Katja Worch

The exhibition provides insights into the East German working world during the last two decades of the GDR, well beyond state propaganda: people at their jobs, taking breaks, in their leisure time – sensitively observed and recorded by renowned photographers in the years 1970 to 1989.