The German Historical Museum (DMA) in Berlin recreates with a virtual reality exhibition the iconic photo “Der Sprung” (“The Jump”), a snapshot in which a soldier jumps over the wire fence that divided Berlin two days after the wall begins to grow . to be build.
With 3D glasses, you can see how soldier Conrad Schumann jumped to the western part of Berlin at the intersection of Ruppiner Strasse and Bernauer Strasse on August 15, 1961 and how that photo was taken at the time, the museum reports Thursday. in a press presentation.
The purpose of “Der Sprung-1961”, which can be visited from March 15 to April 5, 2021, is to show the story of how the photo was taken from three different perspectives: that of Conrad Schumann who fled to the western part in the uniform of the GDR National People’s Army, that of photographer Peter Leibing and that of West Berlin policeman Manfred Klumm.
The inauguration of this virtual reality exhibition led by Boris Hars-Tschachotin coincides with the reopening of the German Historical Museum, which has been closed since November due to restrictions caused by the pandemic.
To comply with the health and safety regulations enforced by the Covid-19, tickets are limited and must be reserved online on the museum’s website.
REOPENING OF MUSEUMS
Likewise, on March 15, the DMA will open the exhibitions “From Luther to Twitter. Media and Political Public” and “Report from Exile – Fred Stein Photographs”, which can be visited until April 9 and June 20 respectively.
The inauguration of these three exhibitions coincides with a relief from the restrictions brought about by the coronavirus in Germany, which has begun a de-escalation since early March, causing hairdressers, zoos, museums and some of the essential trade.
Report from Exile collects 160 photographs taken between the 1930s and 1960s by Stein, an iconic German photojournalist and portraitist who fled Nazi Germany in 1933.
The retrospective, which includes portraits, cityscapes and press photos, outlines Stein’s career path from his self-taught beginnings to a prominent chronicler and portraitist of German-speaking expatriates such as Hannah Arendt, Willy Brandt, Bertolt. Brecht, Alfred Döblin, Lion Feuchtwanger, Klaus Mann and Anna Seghers.
After being fired in June 1933 for being a Jew in the Saxon Judicial Service, Stein fled from Dresden to Paris in the fall of 1933, where he began working as a portraitist and press photographer, and in 1941 fled to New York, where he continued to work on portrait photography and specialized in portraits of writers.
The exhibition also shows the contexts in which Stein’s photographs were created, such as the International Congress of Writers in Defense of Culture in 1935 or the Association of German Writers.