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# Remembrance of the European East West conflict

Pedagogical Approaches for dealing with the history and its current consequences

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- [Schedule 08.11.2014](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/06/schedule-2/) - A: Participants present pictures/photographies/songs etc. that they relay to the culture of remembrance in their own country (Cold War Era) & tell the story/stories of that picture. B: Biographical work as a method of dealing with East-West-history: story-telling café
- [Schedule 07.11.2014](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/06/schedule/) - A: Lecture about Berlin as a separated town: Comparison of living conditions & realities in west & east Berlin, history of the cold war focused on Berlin B: Visiting the GDR Prison Hohenschönhausen C: Reflection of this Excursion
- [Finally....it began :)](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/07/finally-it-began/) - After all waiting, travelling and fears of getting lost in Berlin, the training began. The highlight of the day, visit to the former GDR Stasi Prison, gave me contraversial feelings. Yes, conditions here were not like in a 5 star prison. On the other hand, it was not too bad as I have seen visiting former Soviet ones in
- [Schedule 14.11.2014](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/06/schedule-8/) - A: Perspectives West-Berlin, Guided Tour through Stadtmuseum and Humboldt Box B: Reflection and evaluation: Educational work and the east-west conflict – conclusions and irritations
- [Schedule 13.11.2014](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/06/schedule-7/) - A: Museums of Communism: Analyzing how the past is remembered
- [Schedule 11.11.2014](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/06/schedule-5/) - A: Working in small groups: Developing pedagogical concepts for the year 2100 in which there won´t be any contemporary witnesses any more. B: presentation of the results of the small-groups C: House of democracy and human-rights: Input and visit – oppositions in the GDR D: Input & presentation of members of “church from below” about
- [Schedule 10.11.2014](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/06/schedule-4/) - A: Perspectives of former East Berlin migrants (contract worker, exchange students etc.) at the GDR & post GDR discourses. B: Evaluation of the “scouting expedition” C: “Anti Bias” Workshop
- [Schedule 09.11.2014](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/06/schedule-3/) - A: Experiences of borders in Berlin: A scouting expedition through Berlin as a separated town. With action research interviews. B: Discussion and preparation of the research results in the small groups. C: Visiting cultural events together, related to the 25. anniversary of the fall of the wall
- [Schedule 12.11.2014](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/06/schedule-6/) - A: Romania & The West: Deconstructing identities B: ”West-perspectives” – Guided tour: “Frontinsel West-Berlin” with Stattreisen Berlin, U-Bhf. Rathaus Schöneberg C: Reflection of the West Perspectives
- [First day](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/08/first-day/) - The training started. The group seems to be really diverse, which is a promise for the days to come. We went to the Hohenschonhausen, the former hidden Stasi prison in Berlin. It was kind of a mixed feeling experience, both shocking (realizing again the cruelty of humans against humans) and a bit lacking (since I
- [European Walls](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/08/european-walls/) - Contemporaneous with the 25th anniversery of the fall of the German Wall, a group of activist and artisits is organizing the first European Falling of the Walls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pty0yNPeubk Celebrating the "reunification" of Germany as a new era while at the same time, the border-politics of Europe are killing thousands of people, is absurd. Please share,
- [Visiting The Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/08/visiting-the-berlin-hohenschonhausen-memorial/) - The first day of the remembrance has arrived. It was a great honour to visit the former political prisoner prison in Berlin. I could feel the atmosphere full of pain that the prisoners have experienced years ago. We have several prisons such as Hohenschönhausen in Lithuania and it was very valuable experience to compare them. Although
- [Hohenschönhausen: a memorial place](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/08/hohenschonhausen-a-memorial-place/) - Our first day of training starts with the visit of Hohenshönhausen, the most important GDR Stasi prison and, now, a fundamental place of remembrance and memory. In 1994 the build becomes a museum and, since then, with many guides and eyewitness, is visited everyday by a lot of people. I was impressed by the way
- [The experience of the first day](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/08/the-experience-of-the-first-day/) - I can divide today in two part: theoretical and practical. 1)The first hours of our hours were about history of Berlin as a separated city and it was very good to repeat and to get to know more with aspects of life during the cold war period 2)And the second one is practical It was my
- [Impression](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/08/impression/) - When I had a first glance to the GDR Stasi Prison, I felt shiver running through my body. And when I saw living conditions inside, that feeling didn't go away. First of all, prisoners most often were innocent people. Moreover, according to the guide, prisoners should follow ridiculous rules, for example, sitting without any leaning. Finally, prisoners
- [Reflections of the visit to GDR Prison Hohenschönhausen](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/08/reflections-of-the-visit-to-gdr-prison-hohenschonhausen/) - The visit to the GDR Prison on the first day of the training draw a critical picture of the political division and its consequences during the Cold War in Berlin. My expectations towards the visit related to my own images and readings of the Cold War period in Germany and frankly speaking I expected that
- [Now and Then](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/08/now-and-then/)
- [Day in West Berlin](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/13/day-in-west-berlin/) - As usually our day started in the green room. The activity was dedicated to Romania and deconstructing of identities. I liked open discussion after the method and the way in how the women who gave the lecture communicated with auditory. For example, when we were on the Houses of democracy, I didn't liked the way
- [Life changes behind bars](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/13/life-changes-behind-bars/) - Reading about the WW2 german prisons, I had 'high' expectations from the former prison that we went to visit. Mostly reffering to the treatments applied and the 'housing' conditions. A huge change, a different approach, but still based on wrong and immoral reasons. When it comes to the reason(s) why some get behind bars, how
- [Illusionism](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/13/illusionism/) - When the days were cold and hard to endure, humor warmed up the lives of many. '' The presidential couple (from Romania) was traveling by helicopter towards Bucharest. The wife said :''Look Nick, what beautiful rivers we have...'' . ''No, woman! (the president replyed). Those are highways...''. But the pilot, in his mind ''You idiots,
- [Two thousand one hundred and...](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/13/two-thousand-one-hundred-and/) - ...something. Something will happen in the future. That's for sure. We won't get to see what, we can only pretend to imagine a scenario or two or three or... It was a good imagination exercise, where each had the chance to express what he dreams about. The small group in which I was assigned came
- [The 5. day](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/14/the-5-day/) - We were divided in small groups,as usual and I appreciate it a lot.The topic in our group was "propaganda".Unfortunatelly,I can't say that was really involved in the discussion-for some reason I fell myself uncomfortable.Anyway discussion was interesting,we had mostly the same points of viewes.We were talking about target group in age between 16-20 years old
- [The 7. day](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/14/the-7-day/) - Today we were talking about museufication.All topis was very interesting for me,because I belong to people,who visits museum,when looks for some information.Bacause in my opinion in museum you are also can get a presentation how objects/information are represented and look like referring to museum's idea. We were talking about 5 museum in small group,as well,
- [Remembrance](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/14/remembrance/) - I cannot think at something more relevant than University Square , Bucharest, when talking about culture of remembrance in Romania. And this song . University square is that place, or rather space, that encircles, in post-communism history, all the major democratic events beginning with the '89 revolution and ,hopefully not, finishing with last year's protests regarding Rosia Montana
- [The 6.day](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/15/the-6-day/) - The first performance, which was about Romania and West, was amazing.Comparisons,which Marina(the member of our group and teacher in this topic) made using different tools like pictures,discussions and games were ideal for me.As for me, the game,when we were writing one world per person after that mixing all words together and at the end every
- [Thanks to all of you :-)](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/16/thanks-to-all-of-you/) - Dear participants! We hope that you all had a pleasant travelling back home! We thank you a lot for your participation and we are happy that we had the pleasure to have you all here in Berlin! We are happy to find your last posts on this blog and we invite you to use this
- [Speaking about Speaking Out](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/17/speaking-about-speaking-out/) - Speaking of marginalized and dominant discourses, the latter being (naturally) overwhelmingly present on Sunday, on Monday we got a presentation of a theater project which aims at giving a voice to those who were excluded from the national euphoria in the early '90s. There is a good chance that Nai Wen's perspective as someone who
- [](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/17/365/) - Constructive criticisms and praises were given in the feedback round, so here's just a thanks for the nice party, which helped wrap everything up nicely and made me wonder why noone, including me, made the effort to go upstairs to get a device which could play music without wifi. I guess there was a subconscious
- [Realities and Truths](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/17/realities-and-truths/) - On this day we discussed museums in Warsaw, Prague, Berlin, Eisenhüttenstadt, and Vilnius, which all deal with the history between 1945 and 1989. I liked the way this activity was organized, working in small groups was productive and we got a good overview about the five museums and a sixth one presented by the moderator.
- [The Present is the Past of the Future](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/17/the-present-is-the-past-of-the-future/) - I liked the idea of creating pedagogical material for the year 2100. Although I would not have phrased the title like that – because in our small group, it fuelled discussion about what 2100 will be like, and how we would have to attune our pedagodical concept to the reality of this time. In order
- [Field Work in German Remembrance](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/17/field-work-in-german-remembrance/) - Sunday was the day of “scouting expeditions” around town, to experience first hand the different ways, in which the events of November 9th, 1989, were remembered 25 years later. Surely it was a good idea to split the big group into smaller groups and send then out on their own. This way, more events and
- [Discussing Stereotypes](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/17/discussing-stereotypes/) - The biggest issue for me, on this day and in the whole training, was the introduction to an input on “The West and the Rest”. I appreciated the input and the attempt to show how categories like “East”, “West”, “European”, and “Oriental” can be deconstructed by looking at the time and place of their creation,
- [12.11.2014](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/18/link-and-resources/) - Romania & The West: Deconstructing identities: http://prezi.com/p5tzjqm8dan7/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy Also a few resources: SAID, Edward. Orientalism, (1978), TODOROVA, Maria. Imagining the Balkans, (1997), MELEGH, Attila (ed.). On the East West Slope, (2006), WOLFF, Larry. Inventing Eastern Europe, (1994).
- [Group results - Pedagogical concepts for the year 2100](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/24/390/) - While working on pedagogical methods for the year 2100, our group's first issue was what kind of topic to chose in history and from what perspective to approach it? Should we speak about a long term reality such as the Berlin wall, should we pick a specific moment in time such as spring 1968 or
- [Discourses of museums/places of rememberance are always problematic](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/08/discourses-of-museumsplaces-of-rememberance-are-always-problematic/) - B, C: I found it is very important to deconstruct the discourses of both museums and tour guides, because of the different agendas of the hegemonic cultural and political discourse. There are many layers of meaning stashed on top of each other, like many filters superimposed on the original meaning: the official story of the
- [Sharing experiences](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/08/sharing-experiences/) - The second full day of the training was story telling day. In AM we showed ant told stories about them which were taken during the cold war era. Afterwards we used a method of biographical work called story telling cafe. It was a bit confusing as we were not able to ask or interrupted. It
- [The second day](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/10/the-second-day/) - Today was really full of interesting opinions and different kinds of views.Mostly we were talking about rememberence of the cold war era in our country.In the morning we were divided in small groups to present our "homework" like pictures,songs and etc.It was very useful and cognitive.Firstly,because we were only 4-6 people in group and everyone
- [The 3.day](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/10/the-3-day/) - Yesterday was a the 25. anniversary of the fall of wall.This day left in my mind unforgettable feelings. In the morning we were looking for different memorable places in Berlin in a small groups.With my group I was at the Checkpoint Charlie and in the German central museum. I have lots of feelings because of
- [The 4.day](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/10/the-4-day/) - Mostly today was a theoreticalal day.I got a lots of useful,interesting and new information and I think I'll use those knownoledges during my life.As for me the most interesting part was at the evening,when were talking about "anti-bias" it was all new to me,so I was really fond of it and also making a research
- [Trouble making dilemmas: taking part at the East-West seminar](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/11/trouble-making-dilemmas-taking-part-at-the-seminar/) - Like many human beings, I like confort: that of a warm pillow, of good food and of familiar ideas, which I can easily handle. That's why on a winter day, I choose to stay inside, at warmth, instead of going out in the cold, and that's also why I rarely get out of my intellectual
- [How close should you get: visiting the Hohenschönhausen prison](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/11/how-close-should-you-get-visiting-the-hohenschonhausen-prison/) - Visiting the Berlin Hohenschönhausen memorial, the main political prison of the former East German Communist Ministry of State Security, the Stasi, cannot be done on your own, but only part of a guided tour. And on this early November day, our guide is a German historian in her early thirties, with a Club Mate in her hand, friendly and straightforward,
- [Is the past obscuring the present?](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/11/is-the-past-obscuring-the-present/) - Participants at the seminar are from various European countries, so each has a different perspective on the East-West conflict. Each brought a picture which he/she relates to the conflict, in a personal way and has to talk about it. The list of topics touched upon is big and colourful: Ceausescu's huge celebrations in the 80s, Radio
- [on rememberance: the enigmatic narratives of history](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/11/on-rememberance-the-enigmatic-narratives-of-history/) - This is part of a larger story. But firstly, this is a foreward of an evolving story of (my)self. I want to say that maybe I will not write a post everyday (obviously, this is my first lines in 4 days). Not because I don't like the idea, but basically because all we consider,
- [Different layers of rememberance](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/11/different-layers-of-rememberance/) - When the same day stands for different things in history, such as November 9 (1938 - Kristallnacht) and 1989 (not even "fall", but the opening of the Berlin Wall), each memory needs its (mental and physical) space for rememberance. During the past years, the touristic significance of November 9 marginalizes the 1938 events within collective
- [To remember or not to remember](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/11/to-remember-or-not-to-remember/) - The variety of memorial sites that we visited shows the fact that people are willing to remember and to preserve in the collective memory the historical events. Usually, the negative events are more impressive and persistant than positive ones, so the focus of the cultural events organized on the 9th was to raise awareness about
- [workshops](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/11/workshops/) - Today was the day when we heard a theoretical part of different kind of workshops. Firstly, we had a presentation about perspectives of former East Berlin migrants at the GDR and post GDR discourses. This lecture I found valuable, because I couldn't imagine how it felt to be "free" when the wall fell. There still
- [In Prison](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/11/in-prison/) - I had heard mainly negative things about the way the Gedenkstätte Stasi-Gefängnis Hohenschönhausen dealt with history and actors opposing their strictly anti-communist way of remembrance. Still, I was interested in seeing the place myself when we went, thought I am not sure what I expected, really. After all, a prison without inmates is not much different
- [(Hi)Story Telling](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/11/history-telling/) - Today we used two slightly different, alternative ways of approaching the historical period we are dealing with. The first way was object-centered, a kind of historical show-and-tell. This way we got very different presentations on remembrance of the cold war era in Romania, Lithuania, Italy, and Germany (and Finland, but unfortunately I did not get
- [Artistic Pedagogical Methods](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/11/artistic-pedagogical-methods/) - A: Nai Wen's input was extremely valuable, as it both offered a video material that very thoughtfully gave voice to non-hegemonic perspectives about the fall of the Wall in 1989 and an explicit account of the "We are the play" project. I would like to try out invisible theatre as a method for encouraging people
- [Romania, stereotypes and west](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/12/romania-stereotypes-and-west/) - A day started with a reference to former exercise anti-bias workshop. The woman, who presented Romania's situation and stereotypes, also encouraged to think about the stereotypes in our native countries and differences between east and west in general. I was not surprised that a few times opinions about a stereotypes diversed as a adjective 'diverse'
- [Hohenschönhausen: the Cold Walls of the Cold War](https://solarev.org/eastwest2014/2014/11/12/hohenschonhausen-the-cold-walls-of-the-cold-war/) - In my life I've visited only two prisons: 1st was few years ago, a present juvenile portuguese prison and the 2nd, few days ago, a former political prison from Berlin. Both visits reveled me important aspects, but now I will reffer more to the last one. When I found out that we will visit a former Stazi prison, from GDR, I wasn't sure what

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