Category: Memorial

Münchner Platz Memorial, Dresden

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Münchner Platz Memorial, external view

After his release from prison 1934, the communist artist Fritz Schulze (1903 – 1942) created the linocut „Gefängnisrundgang“, Prison Tour.

Background

As a former place of trial, a prison and an execution site, the Münchner Platz Memorial in Dresden commemorates the victims of political criminal justice during the National Socialist dictatorship, the Soviet occupation, and the early GDR. Since 2012, the memorial presents to its visitors the permanent exhibition Verurteilt. Inhaftiert. Hingerichtet. Politische Justiz in Dresden, which is dedicated to the role of the judicary during 1933-1945 and 1945-1957, and to the events on this particular site. A visitor information and signage system on the grounds and in the surrounding buildings, designed by gewerkdesign, provides information about the history of the different buildings on this site, thus marking historical traces and pointing out where the events described actually took place. The 19 text and picture panels report on the function of the specific buildings at the time, on how the memorial came about, and on the biographies of the convicts. All texts are in both German and English.

Portfolio / Range of Services

Design, planning and implementation of the visual visitor information system and reference system, supervising and coordinating the production of the graphics and printings, brochures, preparation / participation of the commissioning process

Details

• Opening: August 2021
• Where: Münchner Platz Memorial, FDresden
• Client: Stiftung Sächsische FGedenkstätten
• 5800 m²

Related projects

• Ökodorf Brodowin, Brandenburg
• Berlin Wall Trail, Berlin
• Hannover Garden Region, Hannover

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Costanza Rossi

Print production
• Hertzer GmbH

Photography

• Münchner Platz Memorial Dresden: Ellen Schwalbe

A Memorial made of Paper: Arolsen Archives, International Center on Nazi Persecution

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Arolsen Archives documentation centre

Digital index card

Background

The Arolsen Archives – a Memorial made of Paper – store more than 30 Mio files on holocaust survivors, concentration camp inmates, forced labourers, and survivors. The Archives of the ITS, the International Tracing Service, was founded in order to compile information on the history of the victims as well as to deposit letters of their relatives who had contacted the archives. It is an organic archive, continuously growing. The special exhibition about the founding and procedures of the archives is shown in Bad Arolsen until the UNESCO-Memory of the World documents will move to a new building. gewerkdesign won the public contest for design and production of exhibition and catalogue. As part of the corona measures that were taken in 2020, visitors are now also able to experience the exhibition interactively on a 3D tour: Arolsen Archives online.

Portfolio / Range of Services
Exhibition design, exhibition scenography, exhibition graphics, media design, film production, planning concept, production supervision, services 1-9

Details

• Opening: 18. June 2019
• Ort: Arolsen Archives – FInternational Center on Nazi FPersecution, Bad Arolsen
• Client: Arolsen Archives, Bad FArolsen
• 150m²

Related projects

• Bautzen Memorial, Bautzen
• The Germans, the Forced Labourers Fand the War; Berlin, Moscow, FWarsaw and others
• The dissenter is the Enemy; FHamburg

Design process

Team

• Sebastian Franke
• Ida Flik
• Jens Imig
• Julia Junghänel
• Jori Kehn
• Bianca Mohr
• Franziska Schuh
• Birgit Schlegel
• Alexandra Zackiewicz

Production management
• Sebastian Franke

Media production
• Jörgen Pisarz, artavi

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Bautzen Memorial

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Entrance to the former prison, Bautzen Memorial

Photograph of a prison cell

Background

On September 19th, the third and last part of Bautzen Memorial’s permanent exhibition »Haft unterm Hakenkreuz Bautzen I und Bautzen II 1933-1945« about the National Socialist penal system was inaugurated. gewerkdesign has been involved in the different stages of Bautzen Memorial’s remodelling since 1997, having created the design for the exhibition parts about Bautzen as a Stasi prison and as a special detention camp during the Soviet occupation. The parts are chronologically arranged on the three stories of the building. While the architecture of the building was mostly left in its original state, a few of the rooms were rearranged: Their contemplative exhibition design provides an opportunity for the visitors to concentrate on the exhibitions and on the information given. Creative highlight: the rooms are furnished with a free transformable, modular system of wooden shelves – elegantly honouring the complex history of the memorial site. The shelf compartments’ proportions are similar to the former prison cells, thus referring to the site itself and its architecture. In order to physically and semantically guide the visitors through the multi-layered area, gewerkdesign created a signage system and, together with Lotsenhaus Media, a media guide.

Portfolio / Range of Services: Exhibition design and planning, implementation planning, concept development for the display, exhibition production, project management and consulting project development, exhibition and media graphics, media guide, facsimile production

Please note that the copyrights for the project-photo being used on our landing page are with: © Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen GmbH

Details

• Opening of the last part:
F19. September 2018
• Where: Bautzen Memorial
• Client: Stiftung Sächsische
FGedenkstätten
• total area: 400 m²

Related projects

• STASI., BStU, Berlin
• The Dissenter is the Enemy,
FHamburg etc.

Design Process

Team

• Costanza Rossi
• Jens H. Lohmann
• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel

Media guide
• Lotsenhaus

Photography
• Francisco Pablo Hassmann

STASI. State Security in the SED-Dictatorship

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Training centre of the BSTU, Berlin

The STASI headquarters in 1990

Background

The catalogue’s nine narrative chapters document the history, ideology, structure and influence of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR.

It presets the paradigmatic life stories of six GDR citizens, each of whom had become targets of the STASI. The stories are supplemented by documents, photographs, drawings and 12 essays by distinguished experts.

Portfolio / Range of Services: brand design of the exhibition and all printed materials, catalogue design, layout and final artwork, supervision of the production

Details

• Published: January 2011
• Catalogue accompanying the
Fexhibition with 12 essays
• Editor: Federal Commissioner
Ffor the Records of the State
FSecurity Service of the former
FGerman Democratic Republic,
FBStU
• 222 pages

Related projects

• STASI. Die Ausstellung zur
FStaatssicherheit der DDR
• Feind ist, wer anders denkt
• Berliner Mauerweg – Außenring
• Berliner Mauer

Team

• Birgit Schlegel
• Christine Kitta

Photography
• gewerkdesign

STASI. State Security in the SED Dictatorship

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Training centre of the BStU, Berlin

Erich Mielke’s red suitcase

Background

The permanent exhibition of the BStU illustrates the consequences of the secret police’s activities on individuals and society. Its nine narrative chapters document the history, ideology, structure and influence of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR.

The exhibition consists of an anteroom with a multivision, a passage room with a filing cabinet illustrating the STASI’s working methods and an exhibition room presenting an array of documents and other materials.

Hovering above the ground, visitors see an intricately designed »biographer« with the paradigmatic life stories of nine GDR citizens, each of whom had become targets of the STASI. Each of the stories has been supplemented by a short film and an object. A labyrinth of grey vitrines appearing to grow from the ground and movable doors covered with fabric illustrate how the STASI’s working methods seamlessly fit into citizens’ everyday life.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition dramaturgy, exhibition architecture, graphic design, media design, production, printed material, outdoor advertising material, signage, interior design of the training centre

Details

• Opening: January 2011
• Exhibition site: Training
Fcentre of the BStU, Berlin
• Client: Federal Commissioner
Ffor the Records of the State
FSecurity Service of the former
FGerman Democratic Republic,
FBStU
• 535 m²

Related projects

• The dissenter is the enemy
• Forced labour. The germans
Fthe forced labourers and the war
• STASI. State security in the
Fsed dictatorship (catalogue)

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Thilo Albers
• Christian Hoffmann
• Christina Kitta
• Marten Suhr

Fotografie
• Markus Müller
• Susanna Hufsky

Forced Labour. The Germans, the Forced Labourers and the War

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Industrial Museum Zeche Zollverein, Dortmund

Logotype of the exhibition »Forced Labour«

Background

Having visited Berlin, Moscow, Dortmund, Warsaw, Prague, Hamburg and Steyr, the traveling exhibition introduces 60 representative case studies of forced labour during WWII. It aims to show how the occupied territories were exploited by National Socialist Germany in its abduction of more than 20 million people that it forced into providing labour.

Within a metal frame encompassing all technical equipment in use, the exhibition creates linearly structured compartments, which have been individually coloured, lit and substructured.

In order to visualize the brutality and imminence of forced labour as a system, throughout the course of the narrative the exhibition’s modular compartments become steadily larger, narrower and darker. The exhibition ends with a series of video interviews with contemporary witnesses.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition architecture, media design, graphic design, production, production management, supervision of the exhibition at the different exhibition sites

Details

• First opening: October 2010
• Exhibition sites: Berlin, Moscow,
FDortmund, Warsaw, Prague,
FHamburg, Steyr
• Client: Memorial Foundation
FBuchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora,
Finitiated and supported by the
Ffoundation »Memory, Responsibility
Fand Future«
• 1.000 m²

Related projects

• Wolfenbuettel prison –
FRemodelling of the former
Fexecution site
• STASI. State security in the
Fsed dictatorship (catalogue)
• STASI. State security in the
Fsed dictatorship (exhibition)
• The dissenter is the enemy

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Klaus Fermor
• Julia Junghänel
• Christine Kitta
• Marten Suhr
• Marie-Luise Uhle
• Ann-Christin Warntjen

Architektur
• Johannes Gotaut
• Jan Leisse

Ausstellungsbau
• Walther Expointerieur

Schriftsatz
• Klaus Böhm

Druck
• Radebeuler Machwerk e.K., Radebeul

Fotografie
• Christoph Musiol

The Dissenter is the Enemy

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First opening at the Hamburg Chamber of Trade and Commerce

Background

The travelling exhibition of the Stasi Records Agency (BStU) has been travelling across Germany and Europe since 2008.
On 200 m² of exhibition space luminous cubes resembling the metal filing cabinets of the Stasi explain the administrative machinery behind the assault. A table with a timeline defines important events in the history of the GDR. Biographical display stands recount the individual fates of people who were monitored by the Stasi.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition design, exhibition graphics, graphic design of printed and supplementary material (catalogue, materials for journalists and students), production of the travelling exhibition

Details

• First opening: November 2008
• Exhibition sites: Hamburg Chamber
• Other sites: Europewide
• Client: Federal commissioner for
Fthe Records of the State Security
FService of the former German
FDemocratic Republic, BStU
• 200 m²

Related projects

• STASI. State security in the
Fsed dictatorship (catalogue)
• STASI. State security in the
Fsed dictatorship (exhibition)

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Christine Kitta
• Susanne Kluge
• Stefan Schöbinger

Metallarbeiten
• Paul Klier

Fotografie
• Bert Brüggemann
• Ursula Böhmer

Berlin Wall

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Background

Starting point for gewerkdesign’s logotype for the Berlin Wall was a rectangle mirroring the proportions of the wall and corresponding with the words »Berliner Mauer«. Omitting one segment of the rectangle in between the words makes reference to the former division of Berlin into an eastern and western part, yet also the opening of the wall. The missing segment is repeated a little below the rectangle and can be used for including additional information like a place, an event, or a date.

The logotype was selected in an elaborate selection procedure by the Federal Government of Germany. It identifies all institutions subject to public law that are dedicated to the research and information about the Berlin Wall or the history of the German division. It is also used as a certificate for quality approved products and services of non-governmental institutions.

The Berlin Wall logotype was awarded the European Design Award in Stockholm 2008.

Portfolio / Range of Services: logotype design, brand design

Details

• Published: September 2008
• Client: The Federal Government
FCommissioner for Culture
Fand the Media

Related projects

• Berliner Mauerweg – Außenring
• Stiftung Berliner Mauer

Team

• Jens Imig
• Stefan Rothert
• Birgit Schlegel
• Susanne Kluge

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Berlin Wall Memorial

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Marienfelde Refugee Center Museum, Berlin

Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Straße 111, Berlin

Background

The logotype by gewerkdesign for the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Straße 111 was first published in 1999.

It consists of the three delicate numerals 1 and the words »Berliner Mauer – Dokumentationszentrum«, alluding to the address of the memorial and the division of the Berlin Wall into three parts: the eastern wall, the death zone, and the western wall. The logotype is very flexible because the space in between the numerals is variable and responds to the width of the print product.

As the Berlin Wall Memorial and the Marienfelde Refugee Centre Memorial were combined by a superordinate institution in 2009 – the Foundation of the Berlin Wall – their respective logotypes were redesigned and made to fit together harmonically.

Portfolio / Range of Services: logotype design, style guide, print materials (office equipment, basic layout of flyers), catalogues, posters

Details

• Published: August 1999,
Fredesign 2009
• Client: Foundation of the
FBerlin Wall with the Berlin
FWall Memorial and the
FMarienfelde Refugee Centre
FMemorial

Related projects

• Berliner Mauer Logo
• bcc – Berliner Congress Center

Team

• Birgit Schlegel
• Christine Kitta
• Susanne Kluge

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Berlin Wall Trail – Outer circle

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Background

In 2006 gewerkdesign created a signage system for the the Berlin Wall hiking and bike trail, which traces the course of the former GDR border fortifications encircling West Berlin.

During the course of the 160 km long train gewerkdesign’s simple orange signs point out historical sites and, similar to the well known »stolpersteine«, honour the memory of the 46 people, who were kille trying to cross the border.

Portfolio / Range of Services: signage system, design, planning, supervision of the implementation

Details

• Opening: April 2006
• Berlin Wall Hiking and
FBike Trail
• Client: Grün Berlin Park
Fund Garten GmbH
• ca. 60 posts, continually
Fexpanded

Related projects

• Gartenregion Hannover,
FInformations- und Leitsystem

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Andreas Baumbach
• Julia Junghähnel
• Rita Rentzsch
• Tobias Solcher

Photography
• gewerkdesign