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century western society, it was replaced by the middleclass ideal of the love relationship.Scheidung
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kinship, or the safeguards of
a social welfare state, friendship holds out the promise
of another network of solidarity. Friendship is sufficiently stable to offer us trust and closeness, yet also sufficiently flexible to leave us plenty of space for our need
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Tuesday – Sundays, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Koordinationszentrum
Sleep-well teddy bear. The federal chancellor Angela
Merkel gave the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy
a teddy bear on the birth of his daughter. A cuddly gift –
or, in times of the debt crisis, perhaps a bit on the gruff side?
Photo: © Margarete Steiff GmbH, 2014
The hands-on exhibition
To this day, historically inherited patterns have shaped our
notions of what constitutes a friendship. And as visitors move
through this section, the stylised monuments dotted about are
a palpable reminder of that. They will encounter the likes of
Gilgamesh and Enkidu, that most ancient of European couples united by bonds of friendship; Marx and Engels; pals and
amigos; wartime comrades; and gang members. An expansive
Info-Station provides all the latest research findings. Today,
friendships operate between rules and rituals, between spontaneity and the principles of chance; and, increasingly, they
are also purposefully channelled by the possibilities of modern
communication media.
An exhibition on the
causes and chasms
of friendship
In centuries past, friends would communicate by correspondence
– and some of it could be copious. Such correspondence
served to strengthen ideas and life plans, and also to establish
new contacts. But these insights into characteristic types of
correspondence also document the conflicts surrounding political and moral convictions, and the intellectual and emotional
demands that may be placed on one another – from Gleim
and Klopstock to the ‘Glass Chain’, the members of the Red
Army Faction, and the writers Uwe Johnson and Hans Magnus
Enzensberger.
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Hans Magnus Enzensberger and
Uwe Johnson in younger years.
United as individualists, the friendship between the two authors broke
up for personal and political reasons
after 161 letters – the rest was silence.
Photos: © Suhrkamp Verlag
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Did these friends and comrades talk about
nothing but the class struggle? Of course not; they also talked about money
and family, careers and intrigues – just like in today’s political life.
Photo: shutterstock/Nikita Maykov
Are you really my friend? The American photographer Tanja Hollander
took three years to visit all 626 of her Facebook Friends all over the world
and photograph them at home. Does that mean she had to start all over
again when she got back? Photo series 2011 – 2014; © Tanja Hollander
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An exhibition about
images of friendship
An exhibition marking the 66th anniversary
of the Federal Republic of Germany
What constitutes a suitable gift between friends? It’s a question
that pops up not just in the private sphere, but also in official
exchanges between states. Gathered in a showcase repository
are the gifts and reciprocal gifts which Germany has exchanged
over the years with ten more or less friendly states all around
the globe. What is clear is that state gifts are not just diplomatic
expressions of civilities; they also speak volumes about the political climate in which they were exchanged.
Girlfriends, Sigmar Polke,1965. The pre-image for these BFFs was taken from a
popular magazine – a reliable source, surely?
Photo: © The Estate of Sigmar Polke / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Copyright holder: Froehlich Collection, Stuttgart; The Estate of Sigmar Polke,
Cologne; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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This section showcases paintings that span five centuries, all
hanging closely together and packed right up to the ceiling.
How do you go about expressing the idiosyncratic nature of
friendship in a painting? Can the mutual trust and intensity of a
relationship even be portrayed? Conversely, how do you depict
calculated cronyism or floundering friendships? How do you
differentiate between a genuine friendship and a fake? Well, in
this picture gallery, the latter at least is easily resolved: (nearly)
all the artworks on show are exclusively reproductions.
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Where are our friendships headed? Will they remain a private
matter, or will the organised, friendship-like networks of the
future determine social success, economic competitiveness and
cultural innovations? The last section of our Exhibition deals
with present-day phenomena, which are already operating with
the open-future potential of friendships: the likes of crowdfunding and Real Life Super Heroes, and flash mobs, and pets as
conceivable friends-for-life.