Kalendarium der Ostmoderne

The ›Kalendarium der Ostmoderne‹ (Calendar of East German Modernism) is more than an ordinary annual calendar. It is part of a long-term project on the architecture of the GDR and its traces in today’s cities.

At its centre is the industrialised building method of the GDR – above all the WBS 70 housing series – and the art in architecture of that period. The twelve monthly motifs connect very different towns and landscapes into a visual whole in which similarities and differences in façades, proportions, surfaces and details become apparent.

The calendar continues this photographic work year by year. Each monthly sheet is also designed as a detachable postcard, inviting you to pass the images on, send them and place them in new contexts. In this way the calendar becomes a personal keepsake that is at the same time part of a shared urban history.