Exhibition, Guided Tours & Tours
A walking tour and reading with Jenny Krüger, Susanne Lüttich, and Diana Lucas-Drogan, along with other eyewitnesses, through the Katharinenviertel neighborhood in Neubrandenburg
Sunday, 21/06/2026 / 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM / Art Collection Neubrandenburg
Brick Gothic meets Eastern modernism. The workshop explores this dynamic by walking and reading together in Neubrandenburg's Katharinenviertel.
The cityscape of Neubrandenburg is characterized by ambiguity: Brick Gothic and East German Modernism clash, creating fissures in the city’s social acceptance and quality of life.
Within this dynamic, we aim to explore the built environment as a lived and living archive through the practice of walking and reading together. By examining original planning documents and photographs of the urban transformations, we can engage in a shared dialogue and grapple with planning ideologies as source material. Together with planners, eyewitnesses, and guests, we will decode—through site visits and in conjunction with planning materials—the ideologies, concepts, and references of the planning culture in the last two development areas in Neubrandenburg during the GDR era. The 1980s were marked by initial, sensitive adjustments as well as significant resistance to planning practices. In two neighborhoods of Neubrandenburg (Katharinenviertel, Rostocker Viertel), we aim to explore the contradictions, the courage, and the sensitivities inherent in the planning process.
The Katharinenviertel
Planned as a megastructure in the 1970s, the technoid planning dogma of large-scale buildings was reduced in the 1980s to a prefabricated panel-building design that even incorporated ornamentation and, in some cases, refrained from demolishing historic structures.
In this workshop, we’ll decode the planned “giant machines” for the Katharinenviertel and explore the city’s morphology together through a 360-degree perspective. We will explore the tension between the planned grand gestures and the built small gestures through a group walk followed by a workshop at the Neubrandenburg Art Collection.
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