German Right-Wing Extremist AfD Targets Iconic Bauhaus School in Saxony-Anhalt
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Sunday, September 6th the vote for Magdeburg. Barbara Steiner, the director of the foundation branded as anti-German: "L"AfD attacks us by deleting facts and history to prevent us from passing on pluralism and international openness" . The radical right wants more Nietzsche and Bismarck and less Gropius, Klee, Kandinsky
The Lower Austrian Barbara Steiner heads the Kunsthaus Bauhaus in Dessau in Saxony-Anhalt. Currently she has to defend herself against right-wing populist attacks.
The AfD challenges the Bauhaus art school, laments "unGerman" flat roofs and sees in the memory culture a "identity disturbance". What does the Austrian Barbara Steiner say about this, who heads the Bauhaus Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt?
Almost a century after the world-famous Bauhaus school was closed under Nazi pressure, its legacy is once again the subject of a cultural political struggle in Germany.
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