“El Salto”, iconic photo of the Berlin Wall that was reconstructed in virtual reality

The German Historical Museum (DMA) of Berlin reconstructs with a virtual reality exhibition of the iconic photograph “Der Sprung” (“The Salt”), an instant in which a soldier salutes the valley of the hill that divides Berlin from those days after se empezara a construir el Muro.

Conrad Schumann’s soldier could be seen with 3D gaffs at the western part of Berlin on August 15, 1961 at the intersection of Ruppiner Strasse and Bernauer Strasse and came at that moment to take a photo, informing you of his museum in a presentation to the press.

The object of “Der Sprung-1961”, which will be visited from March 15 to April 5, 2021, is to show the history of coma from the photograph from three different perspectives: the one of Conrad Schumann taking the western part with the uniform of the Popular National Ejército of the RDA, the photographer Peter Leibing and the police of Berlin Occidental Manfred Klumm.

The inauguration of this virtual reality exhibition by Boris Hars-Tschachotin will take place in conjunction with the repertoire of the Alemán Historical Museum, which will be held from November as a result of the pandemic restrictions.

To comply with the safety and hygiene norms applied by covid-19, entries are limited and must be reserved online at the museum’s web page.

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Asimismo, the DMA will inaugurate on March 15 the exhibitions “From Lutheran to Twitter. Media of communication and political public” and “Informe del exilio – Fotografías de Fred Stein”, which can be visited until April 9 and June 20, respectively .

The inauguration of these three exhibitions val saam met with an alivio of the restrictions on coronavirus in Germany that, since the beginning of March, has started a desalcada that has allowed the repertoire of pilgrims, zoologists, museums and commercial part no.

“Informe del exilio” contains 160 photographs taken between the decades of 1930 and 1960 by Stein, an iconic German photojournalist and retiree who lived in Nazi Germany in 1933.

The retrospective, which includes retreats, urban landscapes and press photos, traces Stein’s professional truck of his comrades as self-taught has been converted into a chronic and retracted detachment of German residents, such as Hannah Arendt, Willy Brandt, Willy Brandt, Willy Brandt Brecht, Alfred Döblin, Lion Feuchtwanger, Klaus Mann and Anna Seghers.

Tras was dispatched by the Judicial Service of Sajonia in June 1933, Stein moved from Dresde to Paris in the fall of 1933, began working as a retiree and photographer of the press and, in 1941, moved to New York, continued working on retreat photography and specializes in writers’ retreats.

Asimismo, the exhibition will show the contexts in which surrogate Stein’s photographs, as for example in the International Congress of Writers in Defense of Culture in 1935 or the Association of German Writers.

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