| Archäologisches Landesmuseum Brandenburg Auf einer Fläche von rund 2 000 m² gibt die in den historischen Mauern des mittelalterlichen Pauliklosters untergebrachte Dauerausstellung mit etwa 10000 ausgewählten Exponaten einen faszinierenden Überblick der über 130000-jährigen Kulturgeschichte Brandenburgs. Von den frühesten Spuren der Menschen aus der Altsteinzeit führt die Zeitreise über das älteste Tragenetz der Welt, chirurgischen Operationen in der Jungsteinzeit und Opfern der Bronzezeit, über die Germanen und Slawen zu den ersten Städten der Mark und endet mit ausgewählten Funden des 20. Jahrhunderts. Nicht nur Waffen und Metallfunde zeigen Facetten des Lebens in der Vergangenheit. Oft sind es Alltagsgegenstände, die einen unmittelbaren, manchmal intimen Einblick gewähren. Multimediale Präsentationen, kunstvolle Lebensbilder, anschauliche Computer-Stationen und Modelle, darunter ein 4x6 m großes Erdschichtenmodell, regen dazu an, die Geschichte(n) der Menschen und ihre Wechselwirkungen mit der Umwelt auch eigenständig zu erforschen. Ergänzend zur Dauerausstellung finden regelmäßig Sonderausstellungen und Veranstaltungen statt. Spezialführungen und museumspädagogische Angebote gehören ebenfalls zu dem vielseitigen Programm des Hauses. Auch der Baukörper selbst ist Ausstellungsgegenstand: mit seinen architektonischen Grundstrukturen und den Hinweisen zum Klosterleben. Die seit dem späten 13. Jahrhundert als Dominikaner-Niederlassung entstandene Anlage zählt zu den wenigen bis heute in ihrer Gesamtheit erlebbaren Klöstern der Backsteingotik Nordostdeutschlands. Original erhaltenen Bereichen (wie dem Kreuzgang) stehen solche mit starken Veränderungen (z.B. der Ostflügel) gegenüber. Die originalen Teile bleiben als solche erkennbar und geben der Ausstellungsarchitektur einen unverwechselbaren Hintergrund. Die Besonderheiten des Gebäudes erschließt ein spezieller „Klosterrundgang“. Im Archäologischen Landesmuseum Brandenburg finden ergänzend Sonderausstellungen und Veranstaltungen zu unterschiedlichen Themen statt. |
Zwischen Krieg und Frieden – Waldlager der Roten Armee in Brandenburg 194522. april – 24. juli 2016 | vernissage 21. april um 18:00 uhrsonderausstellung in zusammenarbeit mit dem deutsch-russischen museum berlin-karlshorst
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als 70 Jahre nach dem Ende des 2. Weltkrieges richtet sich der Blick
auf bislang völlig unbekannte archäologische Relikte. themenführungen zur sonderausstellungTermine:
28.04., 19.05. und 16.06.2016, jeweils 16:00 Uhr |
 ISBN 978-3910011-86-1 |
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Landesmuseum Brandenburg
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Brandenburgisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und
Archäologisches Landesmuseum
GermanBrandenburg State Archaeological Museum
Special exhibition, 22 April – 24 July 2016
Covering around 2,000 square meters inside the historic walls of the medieval St. Paul’s Monastery, the permanent exhibition presents about 10,000 selected objects and offers a fascinating overview of more than 130,000 years of Brandenburg’s cultural history.
The journey through time begins with the earliest human traces from the Paleolithic period and proceeds through the world’s oldest known carrying net, Neolithic surgery and Bronze Age sacrifices, the Germanic and Slavic peoples, and the first towns of the March of Brandenburg, ending with selected finds from the twentieth century. The past is represented not only by weapons and metal finds. Everyday objects often provide an immediate and sometimes intimate insight into earlier life. Multimedia presentations, artistic reconstructions of daily life, interactive computer stations and models — including a 4-by-6-meter model of soil layers — invite visitors to explore human history and the interaction between people and their environment for themselves. The permanent exhibition is supplemented by regular special exhibitions and events, specialist tours and museum-education programs.
The building itself is also part of the exhibition, with its basic architectural structures and evidence of monastic life. Founded as a Dominican monastery from the late thirteenth century onward, the complex is one of the few brick-Gothic monasteries in northeastern Germany that can still be experienced as a complete ensemble. Original sections such as the cloister stand beside heavily altered parts such as the east wing. The surviving original fabric remains recognizable and gives the exhibition architecture a distinctive background. A special “monastery tour” explains the building’s particular features.
The Brandenburg State Archaeological Museum also presents special exhibitions and events on a variety of subjects.
22 April – 24 July 2016 | Opening: 21 April at 6:00 p.m.
Special exhibition in cooperation with the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst.
More than seventy years after the end of the Second World War, attention is being directed toward archaeological remains that until now were completely unknown. For the first time, newly discovered traces left by the Red Army during the brief period “between war and peace” in 1945 are being shown.
Large troop formations camped in the forests of Brandenburg in regularly laid-out forest camps consisting of traditional log shelters dug into the ground. Here the everyday life of Red Army soldiers took place away from the fighting around the “Reich capital,” which in some places may still have been continuing.
Traces survive today as archaeological finds that tell of a period shaped by combat and violence, appropriation and erasure, overcoming and superimposition — on a large and small scale, in concrete objects and in symbols.
Finds such as Wehrmacht belt buckles engraved with Soviet stars, discarded “war booty,” everyday objects bearing inscriptions, improvised as well as standard items of equipment, and the remains of shelters fitted with objects apparently requisitioned from the surrounding area raise a host of questions, few of which can yet be answered.
The exhibition can be seen in the upper cloister.
Dates: 28 April, 19 May and 16 June 2016, each at 4:00 p.m.
Dr. Thomas Kersting, Head of the Archaeological Heritage Preservation Department, Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and State Archaeological Museum.
ISBN 978-3-910011-86-1
© Brandenburg State Archaeological Museum
© Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and State Archaeological Museum
Exhibition booklet cover (scan 4): Brandenburg State Archaeological Museum. Companion booklet to the special exhibition Between War and Peace — Red Army Forest Camps in Brandenburg, 1945. In cooperation with the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and State Archaeological Museum, the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, the Seelow Heights Memorial, and the Küstrin Fortress Museum.
Wladimir Gelfand (scans 5–7)
The young Wladimir Gelfand (born 1 March 1923 in Novoarkhangelsk, Ukrainian SSR; died 25 November 1983 in Dnepropetrovsk) served as an officer in the Red Army during the Second World War. At the end of March 1945 he arrived at the headquarters of the 301st Division with the assignment of keeping the “Combat Operations Diary.” While the division moved from the Küstrin area into the assault on Berlin in mid-April, he wrote the division’s official diary, first in Küstrin, then west of the city, and finally in an eastern suburb of Berlin. Gelfand spent the first weeks of peace on various assignments in and around Berlin. At the beginning of July 1945 he was sent to a reserve officers’ regiment near Rüdersdorf.
Gelfand recorded his experiences during military service in a diary that was published in Germany in 2005 by Aufbau-Verlag under the title Germany Diary 1945–1946: Notes of a Red Army Soldier (edited by E. Scherstjanoi). It is the first and only private diary of a Red Army officer available in German; since the previous year it has also been published in Russia. After the war and until his death, Gelfand worked as a vocational-school teacher.
Although his diary does not describe accommodation in a forest camp or a “semljanka” (dugout), it contains numerous details and encounters with the German civilian population. Above all, there are many photographs by and of Gelfand, most of them taken for his parents at home. Parts of his estate are preserved by the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst and were donated by his son Vitaly Gelfand.
Photo captions: Red Army officer Wladimir Gelfand with comrades, one of them wearing a Wehrmacht belt buckle. — Wladimir Gelfand with a new watch in front of the Schwielowsee pharmacy in Caputh. — Wladimir Gelfand riding a bicycle.
Exhibition flyer text (scan 9): Between War and Peace — Red Army Forest Camps in Brandenburg, 1945
More than seventy years after the end of the war, finds dating from the German capitulation in May 1945 have emerged in Brandenburg’s forests. Following military regulations precisely, log shelters — called semljanka (dugouts) in Russian — were built along forest roads. They contain traces of the everyday life of Red Army soldiers: equipment, badges, identification tags of prisoners of war, mess tins, field flasks, cutlery, and shell cases used as lamps, some bearing inscriptions in Cyrillic.
The desire to adorn oneself with the symbol of victory is shown by Wehrmacht belt buckles whose swastikas were erased and over which Soviet stars were engraved. Civilian material such as jewelry, watches, water taps and bicycle parts appears to confirm familiar stories from the period. The finds bear witness to appropriation and overcoming, in both concrete and symbolic forms, and raise many questions — research has only just begun.
They are supplemented by finds from prisoner-of-war camps and by a cache of tableware from Brandenburg an der Havel that had been buried by bombing.
Publication and image credits printed on scan 8
© 2016 Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and State Archaeological Museum, OT Wünsdorf, Wünsdorfer Platz 4–5, 15806 Zossen. Publisher: Franz Schopper.
Image credits: Front cover, p. 12 left, p. 51: from the collection of RGAKFD, Krasnogorsk. Pp. 7, 8, 10, 19, 37, 45, 50: Thomas Kersting, BLDAM. Pp. 9, 49 (M. Härtel): AIDZ / BLDAM. P. 12 right: Seelow Heights Memorial. P. 13 left and center: Erich Zander Printing and Publishing House, Berlin, abridged 1942 edition. P. 13 right: YOYO Media reprint from Sputnik Partisana, 1943. Pp. 14–18, 20–26, 28–33, 43, 59, 60 top: Karin Sommer, BLDAM. Pp. 27, 34–36: private ownership, Wladimir Gelfand estate, reproduced by kind permission of © Aufbau Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin 2016. Pp. 38, 52: LGB Brandenburg. P. 40: Matthias Antkowiak. P. 41: Detlef Sommer. P. 42: OBD Memorial image, database number 058-0977521-1867. P. 44: OBD Memorial image, database number 058-0977521-1867. P. 46: private collection of Sieghardt Wolter, Brandenburg an der Havel. P. 48: Military History Research Office (MGFA), Potsdam. Pp. 54, 58, 61: Wolfgang Niemeyer. P. 55: Bajerski private collection. P. 56: City of Brandenburg. P. 57: Gerd Zinn collection. P. 60 bottom: Jürgen Lauterbach.
Texts: BLDAM: Thomas Kersting, Joachim Wacker, Christoph Unglaub; Institute of Contemporary History Munich-Berlin: Elke Scherstjanoi.
Translation: Jeannette Klötzer.
Acknowledgments — volunteer representatives of the State Archaeology Service: André Heinz, Klaus Stieger, Sieghardt Wolter.
Consultation: Jörg Morré, Karlshorst; Kerstin Niebsch, Seelow Heights; Julia Bork, Küstrin.
Excavation, research and much more: Robert Balsam, Elisabeth Brey, Mirosław Ciesielski, Vitaly Gelfand, Melanie Herz, Jamie Jones, Christoph Lobinger, Anne-Kathrin Müller, Wolfgang Niemeyer, Kai Schmahlfeldt, Werner Schulz.
Copyediting and editorial work: Sandra Lehninger, Jeannette Klötzer, Juliane Lippok, Thomas Kersting, Joachim Wacker.
Design and production: böing gestaltung, Berlin. Layout: Atelier Fischer, Berlin. Printing: druckhaus köthen, Köthen. Print run: 500. ISBN: 978-3-910011-86-1.
