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EINE STADT WIRD BUNT.

A CITY BECOMES COLORFUL. Book

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EINE STADT WIRD BUNT. (A CITY BECOMES COLORFUL.)
Hamburg Graffiti History 1980-1999

Authors: Sylvia Necker, Carsten Heinze, Dennis Kraus, KP Flügel, Christian Luda, Kathleen Göttsche & Lars Klingenberg, Mathias Becker and Rik Reinking.

Editors: Oliver “Davis” Nebel, Frank Petering, Mirko Reisser and Andreas “Cario” Timm.

Double-H Publishing, Hamburg (2nd edition, 2022).

Hardcover. 560 pages, over 1,300 color and black-and-white illustrations.
Language: German with additional English texts.
32 x 25 x 5 cm, 3.5 kg

ISBN: 978-3-00-069133-1

This publication is dedicated to the emergence of the Hamburg graffiti scene in the 1980s and 1990s.

Exclusive photo series and original quotes from graffiti writers active at the time are shown on 560 pages and with over 1,300 mostly colored illustrations. Essays by well-known authors who show graffiti as a widely networked, subcultural phenomenon and at the same time provide information on practices of appropriating public urban space complete the overall picture.

The four editors have themselves been part of the graffiti scene for more than 30 years and thus create an authentic view of the beginnings of this subculture, from which a global art movement has now developed.

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Winner of the Hamburg Reading Book Prize

The "HamburgLesen" book prize, worth 5,000 euros, is awarded annually to a book from the current year that deals with Hamburg in an outstanding way. HamburgLesen is under the patronage of Science Senator Katharina Fegebank. The 2022 book prize went to the text/image documentation "A CITY BECOMES COLORFUL. Hamburg Graffiti History 1980 - 1999".

  • Katharina Fegebank , Science Senator:

    "The work not only traces the development of a subculture in Hamburg, but also shows us how people shape their city piece by piece and change it together over decades. To this day, the impressions of graffiti are an indispensable part of Hamburg's urban and cultural landscape."

  • Prof. Robert Zepf , Director of the State and University Library Hamburg:

    "The text/image documentation ultimately convinced the jury the most as a meticulously designed work of art. It is a form of modern contemporary historiography that skilfully balances the editors' (autobiographical) closeness to the topic with a historically reflective approach."

  • Dr. Sabine Bamberger-Stemmann , Director of the State Center for Political Education, Laudator:

    "We should not only take the expressions of everyday culture and everyday life, of youth culture and discursive ways of life very seriously, we should consider them as part of our lifeworld, collect them, analyze them and preserve them. And that is exactly what this remarkable book does."

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