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Aue, Circus Hein, 1973, from the series Living Together

Mahler started her project Zusammenleben

to move away from set photography.

She said: ‘I carried out this work freely, at liberty;

it was very personal in nature and not commissioned’

The lives of others:

Ute Mahler's images of the real East Germany – in pictures

In 1974,

the German photographer set out to convey the truth

about how people really lived in the communist GDR

– depicting her fellow citizens with a ‘timeless coolness’

Wed 6 Jan 2021 07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/06/
ute-mahler-images-real-east-germany-in-pictures

Winfried Glatzeder with Robert and Philipp, 1982

‘I was 20 or so years old. I wanted answers.

I wanted to see

what was hiding behind the prescribed official false optimism.

I was looking for the truth in the inner realm of people’s lives’

The lives of others:

Ute Mahler's images of the real East Germany – in pictures

In 1974,

the German photographer set out to convey the truth

about how people really lived in the communist GDR

– depicting her fellow citizens with a ‘timeless coolness’

Wed 6 Jan 2021 07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/06/
ute-mahler-images-real-east-germany-in-pictures

Housing complex with shops,

Halle-Neustadt, East Germany, 1983

Photograph: Rudi Meisel

Before the fall:

life on both sides of the Berlin wall – in pictures

The Guardian

Thursday 27 August 2015 07.00 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/aug/27/
before-the-fall-life-on-both-sides-of-berlin-wall-rudi-meisel-in-pictures

Wildstraße, Vogelheim, Essen, West Germany, 1977

Photograph: Rudi Meisel

Before the fall: life on both sides of the Berlin wall – in pictures

Thursday 27 August 2015 07.00 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/aug/27/
before-the-fall-life-on-both-sides-of-berlin-wall-rudi-meisel-in-pictures

East Germany

German Democratic Republic (GDR) /

Deutsche Demokratische Republik

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/06/
ute-mahler-images-real-east-germany-in-pictures

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-idees/271220/
allemagne-les-discours-sur-la-rda-sont-parfois-caricaturaux

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/sep/18/
experience-my-brother-spied-on-me-for-the-stasi

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/16/
germany-east-west-gaps-persist-30-years-reunification

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/20/
enemies-everywhere-photos-show-absurdity-life-under-stasi-east-germany

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/06/
ive-been-shafted-twice-stasi-victims-and-their-quest-for-compensation

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2019/nov/05/
punk-persecution-east-germany-stasi-secret-police-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/11/
schoolgirls-defied-the-stasi-across-the-border

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/29/
652567677/punks-up-against-the-wall

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/03/
stasi-files-east-germany-
archivists-losing-hope-solving-worlds-biggest-puzzle

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2017/feb/22/
inside-stasi-museum-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/06/
margot-honecker-widow-of-former-east-german-leader-dies

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/09/
the-spies-who-loved-me-my-dad-the-stasi-agent

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/11/08/
361160675/the-cold-war-broadcast-that-gave-east-german-dissidents-a-voice

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/02/
margot-honecker-east-germany-interview

https://www.npr.org/2012/10/08/
162369606/piecing-together-the-worlds-largest-jigsaw-puzzle

https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2011/08/11/
139548633/german-exhibit-reveals-secret-spy-photos

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/sep/30/
east-germany-angela-merkel

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=120324839 - November 11, 2009

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/sep/11/
honecker-east-germany-hungary-border

'Lives of Others,' a Glimpse at East Germany - February 9, 2007

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=7299396

Germany's Legendary Stasi Spy Chief Dies at 83 - November 9, 2006

https://www.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=6463408

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/sep/26/
germany.worlddispatch

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=1116690 - January 7, 2001

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/nov/09/1

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1989/oct/19/
berlinwall.germany

Rudi Meisel

was one of the very few

West German photographers

allowed to cross the Berlin Wall

into East Germany.

Despite the best efforts of censors,

he captured authentic street life

in the GDR.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/aug/27/
before-the-fall-life-on-both-sides-of-berlin-wall-rudi-meisel-in-pictures

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Dagmar Searchinger 1916-2011

founder of Women Strike for Peace,

a cold war movement that helped organize

demonstrations around the world

calling for nuclear disarmament

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/us/24wilson.html

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a time of economic and political tumult

that culminated in Fidel Castro’s

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/world/americas/20rubottom.html

The National Security Archive / The George Washington University

The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//nsa/cuba_mis_cri/index.htm

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//nsa/cuba_mis_cri/photos.htm

Cold War

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that brought the world to the brink of destruction.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/