Duerers Heritage

Synopsis

Dammbeck, himself an alumnus of the Leipzig Academy for Graphic and Book Design, presents the origins of the new German realism developed by the so-called Leipzig School, which took place in the context of socialist-realist dogma in the GDR before the Wall was built in 1961. After the Wall came down in 1989, what happened to the major Leipzig School painters Werner Tübke and Bernhard Heisig, who had been called “Dürer’s red heirs” by West German journalists in the 1970s? In the film, Tübke, Heisig, and former GDR officials who were involved with the cultural scene in Leipzig at the time talk about modernism, conformism, political pressure, party discipline, personal claims, and fading memory. The documentary paints an insightful, often critical picture of early East German art history.

Main Cast

Bernhard Heisig

Bernhard Heisig

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Sonja Kurella

Sonja Kurella

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Werner Tübke

Werner Tübke

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Heinrich Witz

Heinrich Witz

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Lutz Dammbeck
Crew	Script	Lutz Dammbeck
Camera	Camera Operator	Eberhard Geick Thomas Plenert
Editing	Editor	Margot Neubert-Maric
Sound	Music	J.U. Lensing
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