"Sibylle" listed among the most popular magazines in the GDR. From 1956 to 1990 it was published every two months in an edition of 200.000 copies, which used to run immediately out of stock. Until 1995 it was available all over Germany. The magazine's success is referred to its aspiration to combine fashion, photography and culture.
Three of OSTKREUZ' founding members, Sibylle Bergemann, Ute and Werner Mahler, are among the photographers who shaped the particular aesthetics of the magazine. 
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Exhibition - Sibylle Bergemann, Ute Mahler & Werner Mahler - "Sibylle"
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Books - Andrej Kremenschouk - Come Bury Me
23.07.2010 | | Books/ExhibitionsAfter winning this year's German photo book prize in silver with his book No Direction Home, our photographer Andrej Krementschouk is now busy printing his new book Come Bury Me. The setting of this story is a dilapidated old cottage in the center of a small Russian town, where a group of homeless people have created a home for themselves at the edge of society.
The book will be published by Kehrer in August 2010.
Andrej Krementschouk:Come Bury me
Kehrer Verlag,
2010 80 Seiten, ca. 28
Euro ISBN-13: 978-3868281200
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OSTZEIT - Press review
14.10.2009 | | Books/Exhibitions
Attracting 15 000 visitors, OSTZEIT – Stories from a vanished country, which ended a month ago, has been the most successful exhibition the Haus der Kulturen der Welt has ever hosted: Time to take a look back in the media.PRINT / ONLINE
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OSTZEIT - Finissage
20.09.2009 | | Books/ExhibitionsOn 13 September 2009 the OSTKREUZ exhibition "OSTZEIT - Stories from a vanished country" ended with a panel discussion entitled "The change in the perception of GDR life in today's collective memory" with photographers Sibylle Bergemann, Harald Hauswald and Thomas Hoepker (Magnum), writer Ingo Schulze and presenter Marion Brasch.
The audience was taken in by the fascinating stories the participants told about their lives in the GDR. Hoepker was the first West-German photo journalist to get an accreditation for the GDR. After initial difficulties he was warmly welcomed by a group of photographers led by Sibylle Bergemann, Arno Fischer, Ute and Werner Mahler and still today fondly recalls the circle of friends he was cordially admitted to.
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How To Make A Book With Steidl
17.09.2009 | | Books/Exhibitions
The Idea
This book attempts that which is actually impossible: to capture an entire day in the life of a city. Twenty-four hours, from one sunrise to the next. That said, the book does not seek to reduce a day to simply a number of hours or minutes. Rather, a day consists of different moments that come into being when – for an instant – what was, what is, and what could be are revealed at the same time. When photography manages to record such moments, then the sense of time held within them is suspended, made permanent. That is the wish of this book, to stop time and to preserve it, and thereby to create a record for the future: to know how things once were, and how we once lived. All on a single September day in Berlin. -
"OSTZEIT - Stories from a vanished country"
08.09.2009 | | Books/ExhibitionsSince the 15th of August OSTKREUZ is presenting the exhibition "OSTZEIT - Stories from a vanished country" at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. This exhibition is a collection of photographs by Sybille Bergemann, Harald Hauswald, Ute and Werner Mahler and Maurice Weiss, taken before and at the time of the fall of the Berlin wall; these images open up a window on their common roots and their individual perspectives of Germany's East.
Until now the exhibition is a huge success with over 10.000 vistors in the last three weeks and broad exposure in national and international media. We are very thankful for all the positive reaction we got from many different sites and for the ongoing discussion about the role of photography in the former GDR.
Therefore the exhibition will close with a panel discussion with Sybille Bergemann, Harald Hauswald, Thomas Hoepker (MAGNUM) and Ingo Schulze about the changing perception of everyday life in the former GDR on next Sunday, the 13th of September, at 7 pm. The entrance is free so please feel invited to come.
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