Jens-Uwe Fischer
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Jens-Uwe Fischer

Jens-Uwe Fischer, born in 1977, researches the history of 20thcentury architecture and design. Franz Ehrlich is the focus of his PhD thesis.
Jens-Uwe Fischer, born in 1977, researches the history of 20thcentury architecture and design. Franz Ehrlich is the focus of his PhD thesis.

PUBLICATIONS

Caught in the Titotality Machine
Year of Publication: 2022
Franz Ehrlich’s (1907-1984) eventful life as an architect began at the Bauhaus in Dessau. In 1937, he was taken to Buchenwald concentration camp as a resistance fighter, where he had to design the gate with the inscription »To each his own«. Ehrlich later had a successful career in the GDR – but his all-encompassing assertiveness collided with the political...
Home from Home
Year of Publication: 2009
Berlin, in the late 1920s. The Hirsch Kupfer und Messingwerke designed a prefabricated house – made of the weather-resistant copper from their own factory. Walter Gropius was...
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Brazilian Portuguese rights (Editura Nau)

Socialist Cowboys
Year of Publication: 2008
Germans have long shown an interest in Native American and cowboy culture. But after World War II, this »hobby« became something more – at least in East Germany. In real socialism, after all, the »Wild West« meant one thing above all others: America. And since that was where the »imperialist enemies of the people« ruled, the cowboys and Native Americans...