Exhibition: Writers' Manuscripts in the Securitate Archives

This exhibition was presented to the public for the first time between 4 and 10 December 2017, in the Constantin Brâncuşi Exhibition Hall, which is located in the Palace of the Parliament of Romania. The opening coincided with the Annual Conference of the European Network of Official Authorities in Charge of the Secret Police Files, when CNSAS handed the presidency of the network to the Committee for Disclosing the Documents and Announcing Affiliation of Bulgarian Citizens to the State Security and the Intelligence Services of the Bulgarian National Army. The exhibition illustrated the methods of controlling and keeping writers under surveillance, while trying to reassess the meaning of so-called “resistance though culture” in communist Romania. The items selected for the exhibition originated from the Confiscated Manuscripts Collection and from other fonds of the CNSAS Archives: Penal Fonds, Informative Fonds, Network Fonds, and Documentary Fonds. Three different types of materials illustrated the theme of confiscated manuscripts: archival documents, visual images, and extracts from interviews with writers in the Oral History Collection at CNSAS. The topics illustrated by these items were censorship, writers’ trials in which confiscated manuscripts were used as incriminating evidence, and writers’ surveillance by the secret police. The main items of the exhibition were, however, the writers’ confiscated manuscripts: unpublished prose, poems, pieces of poetry, essays, diaries, memoirs, daily notes, and annotated censored publications.

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Lokacija:
- Bucharest, Romania
Začetno leto dogodka:
- 2017
Glavni protagonisti:
- CNSAS - National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives
Ključni dogodki v zgodovini zbirki:
- Confiscated Manuscripts Collection at CNSAS
- Goma Movement Ad-Hoc Collection at CNSAS

Marking the 80th anniversary of Student, 2017

At the beginning of 2017, members of the former editorial staff at “Student”, editors and journalists who wrote for the magazine, decided to organize a series of Events to recall the importance it once had for youth in Yugoslavia. With this aim, they organized three public discussions during spring 2017 at the “Studentski grad” campus to highlight the most important events in the magazine’s history. The most notable and best-visited discussion was titled “Student magazine in the history of the 1968 world revolution”, which was held in June. In October 2017, an exhibition of reproductions of former “Student” cover pages along with a selection of the most relevant for each year was organized under the title “Visual identity and visual narration”. The exhibition also displayed cartoons and critical texts created mainly at the end of the 1960s when “Student” had its biggest circulation and influence. A printed monograph is planned that would contain the memories of collaborators and contributors, and if funds allow, the making of a film about the history of “Student”.

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Lokacija:
- Belgrade, Serbia
Začetno leto dogodka:
- 2017
Ključni dogodki v zgodovini zbirki:
- Student - Journal

Tramping a trampské piesne regiónu Turiec

Exhibition of tramp songs, organized by Severka TZ in cooperation with the Slovak National Museum.

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Lokacija:
- Martin Malá hora 2, Slovakia 036 01
Začetno leto dogodka:
- 2017
Glavni protagonisti:
- Slovak National Museum
Ključni dogodki v zgodovini zbirki:
- Tramps' songs

Article about 'Illegal Movements for the Unification of Kosovo with Albania (1945-1998)'

Sabile Keçmezi-Basha explains the founding and development of illegal groups (1945–1990s). This article was chosen because it highlights some of the illegal groups’ main activities and their ideological orientation at different time periods.

The author explains how the political opinions and activities of Albanians in Kosovo did not develop freely, do to their political and legal status, their unfavorable economic, educational, and cultural situation, and repression from the Republic of Serbia and the Communist League of Yugoslavia, which did not accept alternative political ideas. As a consequence, political activity that sought an independent Kosovo or that called for its unification with Albania was only undertaken illegally.

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Lokacija:
- Prishtina
Začetno leto dogodka:
- 2017
Glavni protagonisti:
- Keçmezi - Basha, Sabile
Ključni dogodki v zgodovini zbirki:
- Illegal Groups in Kosovo (1945 - 1990) collection

Acquisition of user rights by Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship

Since the end of 2017, the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship has acquired non-commercial user rights of approximately 6,000 digitalized negatives from the private collection of Harald Hauswald.

Currently, the foundation has 2,275 digitalized photos its digital archive and aims to create a complete digital archive of the works of the artist by the end of 2019. The current digitalized material includes negatives that show snapshots of everyday life in East Berlin from the 1970s until the beginning of the 1990s. The themes cover issues such as youth culture and the church, alternative lifestyles, snapshots of neighbourhoods in East Berlin and its crumbling architecture among many others.

Digitalization is currently carried out by the Association OSTKREUZ. Its purpose is to ensure the conservation and restoration of the material and its documentation and cataloguing. The costs for the digitalization processes are covered by the Federal Foundation.

The purpose of digitalization is to facilitate wider public access to the photographic work of one of the most significant photographer from the GDR, whose work strongly conflicted with the regime’s objectives. It aims therefore not only to ensure the preservation of such valuable works but also to contribute to youth political education.

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Lokacija:
- 10117 Berlin Kronenstraße 5
Začetno leto dogodka:
- 2017
Ključni dogodki v zgodovini zbirki:
- Harald Hauswald Photography Collection