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10:00 AM-5:00 PM
The Power of Emotions
Poster Exhibit|100 years of German democracy & dictatorship
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Goethe-Institut Toronto , Toronto
- Price Free Admission
- Part of series: (re)OPEN MINDS 2026: Adapting to the Future
Our politics, it seems, are increasingly determined by feelings as we live in times of constant excitement. Facts are being called into question by perceived truths and beliefism. Radicals of all stripes are finding more and more support with simple answers to complex questions. The political centre often does not know what to do with these heated emotions, as the sobriety of the past political discourse seems vanished.
Fear, hope, love and rage: Throughout history, emotions have propelled processes of reform and democratization. But they have also been objects of political instrumentalization and manipulation.
The exhibition “The Power of Emotions” highlights the political and social impact of emotions over the last 100+ years of German history through historical images, short texts, and accompanying multimedia content. The show takes today's manifestations of emotions as a starting point and shows their historical development in the 20th century: Cycles, change and continuities take the visitor from the founding of the Weimar Republic (1919) to the beginning of World War II (1939), from the founding of two German states (1949) to the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989).
18 Mar - 24 Apr 2026 (closed 3 Apr)
Mon-Fri 10am-5pm
Program Curator: jutta.brendemuehl@goethe.de
Commissioned by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future and the Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur. Developed by Ute Frevert, historian and director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, and political scientist and historical educator Bettina Frevert.
Part of the program (re)Open Minds: Adapting to the Future
Location
Goethe-Institut Canada Inc.
100 University Ave, North Tower, 2nd Floor
Toronto M5J 1V6
Kanada