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Selected Samples of the Audio Tour

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German History in Images and Artefacts from Two Millenia


A Walk Through Two Thousand Years of German History

 

Selected Samples of the Audio Tour


 

1. Jahrhundert vor Christus bis 1500 - Frühe Kulturen und Mittelalter 1500-1650 - Reformation und Dreißigjähriger Krieg 1650-1789 - Vormacht und deutscher Dualismus in Europa 1789-1871 - Französische Revolution bis zweites Deutsches Kaiserreich 1871-1918 - Kaiserreich und Erster Weltkrieg 1918-1933 - Weimarer Republik 1871-1918 - Kaiserreich und Erster Weltkrieg 1789-1871 - Französische Revolution bis zweites Deutsches Kaiserreich 1918-1933 - Weimarer Republik 1933-1945 - NS-Regime und Zweiter Weltkrieg 1945-1949 - Deutschland unter alliierter Besatzung 1945-1994 - Geteiltes Deutschland und Wiedervereinigung
 100 B.C. – 1500

 

  Celts, Germans and Romans   Emperor and Empire
       
 
Provincial Roman milestone from the time of the emperor Caracalla
 
Idealised portrait of Charlemagne with coronation, decorations and imperial crown


  Medieval Ways of Life    
       
 
Gothic field armour
    

 

 
 1500 – 1650

 

  The Discovery of the World   Charles V and the Empire
       
 
Behaim-Globe
  
Allegory of the Holy Roman Empire under Emperor, Charles V


  The City   The Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648
       
 
Augsburg monthly pictures: winter (october, november, december)
  
The alliance of justice and peace

 

 

 
 1650 – 1789

 

  France’s Hegemony   The Turks at the Gates of Vienna
       
 
King Louis XIV of France (1638-1715) before parliament
  
The relief of Vienna on September 12, 1683


  Mobilisation of Economic Power   The Seven Years’ War between Prussia and  Austria
       
 
Grenadier James Kirkland aus Irland vom Roten Leibbataillon der "Riesengarde" Friedrich Wilhelms I.
  
Interim uniform coat of the First Battallion Guard with embroidered Order of the Black Eagle
 

 

 

 
 1789 – 1871

 

  From the French Revolution to the  Congress of Vienna   Napoleon and the Redistribution of German  Territories
       
 
Flag presented to the citizens of the town of Varennes, for the capture of Ludwig XVI
 
Napoleon I as “Emperor of the French” in coronation regalia


  1848 – On the Threshold of Modernity   Mass Immigration to the New World
       
 
Constitution of the German Empire with signatures of the members of parliament
  
“Emigrants' Farewell”


  On the Way to National Statehood    
       
 
Germania seizes the imperial crown offered by the Bavarian envoy - board for the commemorative
   

 

 

 
 1871 – 1918

 

  The New Empire   The Labour Movement
       
 
Banner of the German Empire with imperial eagle
  
"The Strike"


  Industry and Science   Worlds of Everyday Life
       
 
“Maurer Union” automobile
  
Model of a Berlin tenement around 1880: Kastanienallee 12 in Prenzlauer Berg


  The First World War    
       
 
Protective mask with case
   

 

 

 
 1918 – 1933

 

  The Versailles Treaty   The Back-Stabbing Legend and the  Hindenburg Cult
       
 
First edition of the Versailles Treaty in English and French language
 
Wall tapestry with a portrait of Paul von Hindenburg


  Inflation   Church and Religion
       
 
Book of household accounts of a Berlin family
  
Model of the Resurrection Church in Essen


  Radicalization and the End of the Weimar  Republic   Transparent Human
       
 
Column with election campaign advertising
  
Transparent Human


  The Foundation of the NS-Regime   Mass Mobilization and Propaganda
       
 
Flag of the NSDAP
 
Model of the “Great Hall of the People” planned in 1938

 

 

 
 1933 – 1945

 

 



The Exclusion of the Jewish Population in  Germany and in the Occupied Territories   The General Governement
       
 
Star of David
 
Map from Hitler's headquarters with the new border in Poland after the “Hitler-Stalin-Pact”


  The General Plan East   The Second World War: Radicalization of the  War
       
 
Poster of the Nazi Foreign Propaganda for France
  
Anti-aircraft canon 8.8 cm, model 37/41


  Resistance in Germany   The National Socialist Genocide
       
 
“Moabit Sonnet”
  
“Self-portrait in hiding-place”


  Extermination Camps   The Capitulation
       
 
Model of Crematorium II from the Auschwitz concentration camp
  
Four star general Alfred Jodl during the signing of the unconditional surrender of Germany

 

 

 
 1945 – 1994

 

  Refugees, Resettlers and Expellees   Parliamentary Council and Basic Law
       
 
A refugee family's trolley
  
“Basic Law” of the Federal Republic of Germany


  The Inner-German Border   Life during the Economic Miracle
       
 
GDR border column from the border to West Germany
  
Beetle Export Model Type 10/11 C


  Catch up and Overtake   “Guest Workers“
       
 
Trabant P 50/2
  
Bench with luggage compartment from the silver-coloured local district train “Silberling”


  Citizens’ Movements   In the Sights of the State Security
       
 
Piece of the security fence from the Wackersdorf nuclear reprocessing plant
  
Smell sample glass with sticker and index card


  Open Resistance   The Path to German Unity
       
 
Banner from a demonstration in Leipzig
  
Text of the Unification Treaty

 

 

Imprint Audio Tour

Konzept und Leitung: Brigitte Vogel-Janotta und Stefan Bresky

Texte und Redaktion: Christine Ahrens, Jurek Sehrt

Studentische Mitarbeit: Thomas Gottschalk, Julia Hawlitschek, Christoph Kamissek, Saskia Klemp,
Michael Meichsner, Friedrun Portele, Tobias Reckling, Alina Tiews, Marina Urbanke

Sprecherteam (Deutsch): Franziska Pigulla, Harry Kühn, Christian Rode

Sprecherteam (Englisch): John Berwick, Dulcie Smart

Sprecherteam (Spanisch):Darinka Ezeta, Alejandro Lorente

Übersetzung (Englisch): Meredith Dale

Übersetzung (Spanisch): Carlos Fortea, Jurek Sehrt

Wortregie: Michael Kazcmarek, Benjamin McBride

Tonstudio: K13, Michael Kaczmarek, Berlin

Audiogeräte: soundgarden audioguidance GmbH

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Jahrhundert vor Christus bis 1500 - Frühe Kulturen und Mittelalter 1500-1650 - Reformation und Dreißigjähriger Krieg 1650-1789 - Vormacht und deutscher Dualismus in Europa 1789-1871 - Französische Revolution bis zweites Deutsches Kaiserreich 1871-1918 - Kaiserreich und Erster Weltkrieg 1871-1918 - Kaiserreich und Erster Weltkrieg 1789-1871 - Französische Revolution bis zweites Deutsches Kaiserreich 1918-1933 - Weimarer Republik 1933-1945 - NS-Regime und Zweiter Weltkrieg 1945-1949 - Deutschland unter alliierter Besatzung 1945-1994 - Geteiltes Deutschland und Wiedervereinigung