Curator's Tour: "Simply Beautiful? Politicization of German Folk Culture"

This guided tour explores the exhibition "Simply Beautiful? Politicization of German Folk Culture from Eastern Europe." It examines how folk art forms like traditional dance and costume, often perceived as simply beautiful and untouched by modernity, are in fact products of modern viewing habits and ideologization. The tour highlights how these aesthetics gained relevance through their use in modern contexts and continue to play a significant role in political communication, particularly focusing on the history of German-speaking populations in and from Eastern Europe between the 1920s and 1960s.