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The article deals with propaganda campaigns connected with the construction of the Berlin Wall. Propaganda activities assisted the police operations which were aimed at the separation of the east sector from the west sectors of Berlin. These activities took place before, during and after the operation 13, August 1961. In the first part of the paper I describe the prior campaign on the basis of daily newspaper „Neues Deutschland”, the main press organ of the political party SED. The two dominating topics are related: „the human trafficking” and the people regularly crossing the sector border. Refugees became the main topic of the campaign due to the constant mass outflow of people (from 100 to even 300 thousand people fled through West Berlin annually). The fake story, common in the soviet Stalin era, tells about western agents recruiting and trading citizens of the GDR to the West. They were denominated by the propaganda as „head hunters” or „human traffickers”. The people regularly crossing the sector border became the inner enemy. They lived in the eastern sector and worked in the western sectors which resulted in higher revenue. By manipulating the aroused feeling of jealousy the propagandists turn the group into a scapegoat. They accuse them of lack of merchandise and of offences. To put an end to these activities the border had to be closed. The closer to the day of the operation, the more aggressive and hysteric becomes the campaign. The culminant events are the „show trials” at the end of July 1961 during which the assumed „human traffickers” are sentenced to prison. The second part of the article deals with post campaigns which aimed at integration of the citizens within the borders of the DDR.
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Artykuł analizuje film Bartosza Konopki Królik po berlińsku (2009), który autorka odczytuje jako splot historii ludzkiej i nie-ludzkiej. W tekście zostaje podjęta kwestia potencjału sztuki filmowej w tworzeniu nieantropocentrycznych sposobów widzenia świata. Rozważania przedstawione w artykule odnoszą się do transdyscyplinarnych studiów nad zwierzętami, a szczególnie do subdyscypliny historii, jaką jest historia zwierząt. Przedstawione w filmie wydarzenia związane z powstaniem i upadkiem Muru Berlińskiego, widziane oczami królików, pozwalają autorce na przeprowadzenie interpretacji obrazu z perspektywy posthumanistycznej, akcentującej znaczenie filmowych historii w poszukiwaniu nowych sposobów postrzegania świata, wolnych od ego- i antropocentryzmu.
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The article presents an analysis of Bartosz Konopka’s movie Rabbit à la Berlin (2009), which is interpreted by the author as an manifestation of the entanglement of human and non-human narratives. The text addresses the problem of the potential of film art for creating non-anthropocentric ways of seeing the world. The considerations refer to transdisciplinary animal studies, particularly to animal history as a subfield of history. The events related to the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, as seen through the eyes of rabbits, allow the author to interpret the picture from a post-humanist perspective, emphasizing the significance of the film storytelling in the search for new ways of perceiving the world, free from human ego- and anthropocentrism.
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