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Avatar Project: Germany since 1945

Zentralbild Kornmann Vgt-Noa 8.2.1958 500 Jugendweiheteilnehmer feierten Fest des Friedens 500 Jugendliche aus allen Schulen des südlichsten Kreises der DDR, Sonneberg, feierten am 6.2.1958 im Gesellschaftshaus der Spielzeugstadt ein Fest des Friedens. (Näheres siehe ADN-Meldung vom 6.2.1958 Nr. 243). UBz: Jugendweiheteilnehmer gestalteten ein lustiges Zirkusprogramm.

Lauren Stokes
Northwestern University

Students are assigned an imaginary person in postwar Germany — an “avatar” — and narrate that individual’s life over 60 years through a series of short assignments. The assignment was designed for an upper-division course on the history of postwar Germany.

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