An den Rändern taumelt das Glück - The late GDR in Photography
M Books 2025
German & English languages
The end of the GDR is not the end of the images. What perspectives do we choose to form what image of a society whose inner constitution still leaves many questions unanswered?
An den Rändern taumelt das Glück is a photo and reading book about the late GDR and the first years after reunification, with established protagonists of photo art as well as photographers who have now almost been forgotten, most of whom lived and grew up in the GDR, flanked by photographic perspectives on the GDR by foreign photographers. The photographic positions in the book move between documentary practices and artistic and staged imagery, include the media border crosser photo film and question the relationships between film and photography.
In-depth essays and supplementary texts by well-known authors enable
a multi-perspective approach to the photographic material.
edited by Annett Jahn and Ulrike Mönnig
with photographs by - Claus Bach, Kurt Buchwald, Gerd Danigel, Christiane Eisler, Margit Emmrich, Seiichi Furuya, Christine Furuya Gössler, Gerhard Gäbler, Christina Glanz, Anselm Graubner, Wolfgang Gregor, Gerald Große, Ingrid Hartmetz, Steffen Heckel, Harald Kirschner, Thomas Kläber, Matthias Leupold, Wolf Lützen, Barbara Metselaar Berthold, Katharina Müller, Hans Pieler, Christine Radack, Enkhbat Roozon, Andreas Rost, Ilse Ruppert, Einar Schleef, Jim Schütz, Günter Starke, Gabriele Stötzer, Ines Thate-Keler, Jörn Vanhöfen, Siegfried Wittenburg, Ulrich Wüst, Renate Zeun, Helmut Ziebarth,
with film stills from Peter Badel, Margit Emmrich, Hans Wintgen,
with contributions from - Anne Barnert, Matthias Dell, Axel Doßmann, Margit Emmrich, Constanze Freund, Annett Gröschner, Judith Hermann, Bertram Kaschek, Manuela Klaut, Marko Martin, Manja Präkels, Victor del Oral, Anne Rabe, Susanne Regener, Inka Schube, Helga Schubert, Steffen Siegel, Michael Venus, Katharina Warda and others.
and interviews with Julia Blume and Hansgert Lambers.
320 pages
20.5 × 25.5 cm
ISBN 978-3-944425-35-1