Book presentation: Oppositionelle Umgebungen in der DDR
5. December , 18:00 - 19:00
Daniel Wolter from the Innovation Team A2, in his book „Oppositionelle Umgebungen in der DDR“ (Environmental & Archive Studies Series), examines environmental destruction in the former GDR, including in Bitterfeld-Wolfen.
To do so, he investigated photographic collections from the Archive of the GDR Opposition at the Robert Havemann Society and from the Stasi archives. In the process, Wolter traced cross-connections between the concepts of “environment” and “archive” within the historical context of the GDR environmental movement. The result is a media-ecological study in which he brings together different categories of photographic representation and highlights the interface at which the environment is inscribed in photographic images—and at which photographing itself, in turn, intervenes in the environment.
On December 5, Wolter will present the book at CITTIPUNKT Berlin. Afterwards, together with author Luise Meier (Hyphen, MRX Maschine), he will engage in a conversation on resistant ecologies and archived legacies.
Where: CittiPunkt
Brüsseler Straße 36a
13353 Berlin
When: December 5, 2025, 6 p.m.