Berlin Defends Bauhaus in the Face of “Attacks Hostile to Democracy” From the Extreme Right

Le Figaro

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In a manifesto, the German Ministry of Culture supported the artistic movement described by the Nazi regime as "degenerate art".

Kurier

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The AfD in Saxony-Anhalt is heading towards a single government. It wants to make the country "German" again – what this looks like, you can see from the example of Bauhaus: The cultural institution is just being made a state enemy number 1.

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The AfD has placed the Bauhaus at the center of its culture war. A manifesto was adopted in response, spearheaded by Wolfram Weimer. A powerless instrument – especially when the CDU's policies don't align with it. So: You can't say that the AfD is against culture. It just has to be about the German Empire and war memorials. And nothing to do with contemporary art, with research on objects from the Nazi or colonial era. What's bad is what the Sta…

JUNGE FREIHEIT

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The AfD in Saxony-Anhalt wants to oppose the Bauhaus cult with a new commitment to German building tradition. However, the dispute is too short: not the Bauhaus was the wrong path, but the transformation of its experimental spirit into an aesthetic dogma. This article Architecture How to think the Bauhaus German was published on JUNGE FREIHEIT.