Neubau Atmospheres

Join us a for a unique event with Stephan Ehrig (University of Glasgow) will discuss his most recent book, ‘Neubau Atmospheres’, with Kathleen James Chakraborty (UCD) and Ann Fuchs (UCD).

This new book focuses on cinematic, literary, and architectural case studies around modernist, urban housing (“Neubau”) in East Germany from the 1960s to 1980s, highlighting how the prefabricated housing of the GDR provided a potent vehicle for mediating people’s emotional and social experience.

Considering how these cinematic and literary representations focalised ideas of class, gender, and age, the book makes a compelling case for viewing this engagement with the urban environment as a cultural genre in its own right.

The event will include a screening of 'Gestern und die neue Stadt (Yesterday and the New Town)', 1968.

The screening is presented in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Irland.

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