All too often, there is still talk of “us” and “them”, although “[o]f course […] people in the East thought about flexible accommodation at the same time as people in the West or in Japan”, as photographer Wiebke Loeper states, among other things, in an interview. This is also an important statement because of the aspect of new nationalistic tendencies worldwide.

Glossiness stands for purity and perfection, control down to the last atom. In their eternal ambition to want to control everything, human beings smooth out as many surfaces as possible.

In discussing eastern German design, the aim is not to find a distinct identity or to apply a uniform label, but rather to consider the contemporary situation in a region that, for some 40 years, was officially known as the GDR but has now been part of the Federal Republic of Germany for almost 30 years.

Last December, Netflix released the interactive film “Bandersnatch” within the framework of the British science fiction series “Black Mirror”. But what is the impact if I identify with a story so much that the consequences of the decision I have taken in the fictional realm actually move me?