Have you ever imagined how soldiers and their families must have felt like during the First World War? What if social media such as Twitter or Facebook for example, had already existed at that time? What do you think would people of that particular period have shared online?
In this workshop we will focus on various different social and national perspectives on the events leading up to the war, its development and outcome. With information gathered through personal knowledge (maybe even from your family’s history), research on the Internet or in libraries as well as through visits to the German Historical Museum and the Museum of Communication, we will create a number of fictional characters.
Furthermore, we will let them interact online and illustrate their experiences with pictures or maybe also with historical newspaper articles, possible fictional articles and other material. Characters will represent different nationalities and social backgrounds and possibly also certain differences within the aforementioned groups. The actual time span of the project might as well include some years before and after the war or focus only on one specific battle.
All of the possible details concerning the different characters, time span and the material and methods used are of course up to discussion once the group for this workshop comes together in Berlin in May.
Workshop speakers:
Andreas Christ, Gemeinsam Europa gestalten e.V., Buch