Auf beiden Seiten der Barrikade. Fotografie und Kriegsberichterstattung im Warschauer Aufstand 1944

In the organizer's words:

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw
Uprising, the Hamburg State Center for Political Education is presenting its
presents its 2014 traveling exhibition in Hamburg and Berlin almost simultaneously
with many partner institutions in an updated form.
form. The patron for Hamburg is the First Mayor, Dr. Peter Tschentscher.
The exhibition will be open air in both cities. In Hamburg
the partner is the St. Nikolai Memorial, in whose former nave the exhibition will be on display. The Berlin
presentation will take place on Dorothea-Schlegel-Platz, directly at Friedrichstraße
Friedrichstraße station, and can also be visited in the open air.
In Berlin, this is an event organized by the Landeszentrale
for Political Education Berlin and the Polish Institute Berlin.
In 2014, the State Center for Political Education in
Hamburg, the Museum of the Warsaw Uprising in Warsaw, the University of
University of Hamburg and Leica Fotografie International
exhibition entitled "On both sides of the barricade.
of the barricade. Photography and war reporting in the Warsaw Uprising
Uprising 1944". Since then, the traveling exhibition has been
presented at several locations in Germany.
The exhibition commemorates the historical events of the Polish national uprising against the German occupiers in 1944 and is dedicated to a critical examination of the media coverage of the Warsaw Uprising in the German and Polish press of the time, paying particular attention to the photos taken and used for this purpose.
For the first time, the corresponding photos as part of the propaganda apparatus are analyzed in such depth and compiled in combination with other documents. The diametrically different
intentions of the German and Polish propaganda apparatuses are thus
are examined in detail and general conclusions drawn about the
the nature of propaganda.

Art installation
For the first time, both presentations in Hamburg and Berlin will be
will be complemented by a temporary tape art installation by the artist Susanne
Quehenberger, which will be on display from the anniversary, August 1, 1944,
will be on display.

Publications
Parallel to the exhibition, students of Public History
of the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin are developing a magazine in which they
critically examine the subject matter of the exhibition.
For a service charge, the magazine is available from the exhibition partners in Berlin
and Hamburg, as well as in the information store of the State Agency in Hamburg.
the exhibition catalog, which was published in 2017 under the title
of the exhibition, edited by Peter Haslinger, Tatjana Tönsmeyer
and Sabine Bamberger-Stemmann, was published by the Herder
Institute publishing house.

Free admission to the exhibitions and the accompanying program.
Curator: David Rojkowski (Flensburg; sociologist and photographer)
- Responsible: Dr. Sabine Bamberger-Stemmann