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Grenzgebiete - drüben!
Childhood memories between East and West Germany
23 May to 11 July 2010
Opening hours: Tue/Wed 9 a.m.–5 p.m., Thu 9 a.m.–1 p.m. and 5–8 p.m, Fri 9 a.m.–1 p.m., Sat/Sun 11 a.m.–5 p.m. (closed on Whit Monday, 24 May and on „Erlangen Day“, 25 May) Special opening hours 3 to 6 June 2010: Thu/Fri/Sat 11 a.m.–7 p.m., Sun 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
Stadtmuseum Erlangen

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall claire Lenkova and Simon Schwartz published their respective comics “Grenzgebiete – Eine Kindheit zwischen Ost und West” and “drüben!“. Both artists share the experience of having lived in both German states as children. And both of them tell very personal stories of fates and memories related to the division of Germany. claire Lenkova describes what everyday life in the GDR and the new beginning in the FRG felt like for a child in her “non-fiction comic” that came out in 2009. She is from Zwickau and came to Bavaria in 1989 shortly before the Wall came down with her brother and her parents. Simon Schwartz was born in Erfurt in the early 1980s and left the GDR with his parents at age one and a half. In his autobiographically motivated debut he especially tells his parents’ life stories. The story of the Schwartz family is told in flashbacks and, as in Lenkova’s comic, from the viewpoint of a child. Both artists meet their young readers at eye level and encourage them to think, ask questions and discuss.

An exhibition of the City Museum Erlangen and the Erlangen International Comic Salon.

The exhibition „What was the GDR? - A historic adventure for children and adolescents“ – a production of the Children’s Museum in the FEZ Berlin – can also be visited in the City Museum Erlangen until 1 August 2010.

Preview

 

A Century of Comics
The newspaper strip years
Drawn from Life
German newspaper strips today
Six Artists - One Author
Graphic Novels by Peer Meter, drawn by Barbara Yelin, Isabel Kreitz, David von Bassewitz, Gerda Raidt, Nicola Maier-Reimer and Julia Briemle
Cosmos and Comic
The universal Mythologist Jens Harder
Mahlermuseum
The minimalist variations of Nicolas Mahler
Everything is going to be ok again!
Comic as Concept - Oliver Grajewski is Tigerboy
Aspects of the Everyday
The artist and scenarist Pascal Rabaté
Mecki
60 years of comic Adventures
Happy Birtday, Charlie Brown!
60 years of Peanuts
Draw, stranger!
The continuing faszination of the western
In Nature’s great breath
Derib’s and Job’s magical western series “Yakari“
Eroticism and Adventures
New work by Milo Manara
And the word became image
About comics and religion
Grenzgebiete - drüben!
Childhood memories between East and West Germany
Otherness in text and image
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg und the Offenbach Academy of Art and Design
Duckomenta
The ducks are back!
Manga as
Graduate Students of Kyoto Seika University introduce themselves
Jakob - a comic fairy tale
A graduate project at the Film Academy Baden-Würtemberg
Soul strips
Autobiographical Comic Blogs from Germany
cinearte - cinecomic
Stories in Images
Artistic comics and cartoons
The Comic Saloon at the Kunstmuseum Erlangen
The last living person ... Tomorrow!
24th and 25th Comic Artists Seminar 2009 and 2010
The Last Match
The smallest big exhibition in the world
The wooden house
The dream of having your own horse
Tonto – Granulat 6/10
Shop window presentation
World Wide Fund for Nature WWF
No deforestation for children's books!
Comic Café – Comicaze
The best work by Munich's comic artists - Live and in colour!
toonsUp presents:
Let's Play!
Nothing for Cyclopes
3D cartoons by Anjo Haase