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Exhibition - Pictures From a Vanished Country 

Initially working as a staff photographer and correspondent for Stern, Thomas Hoepker was among the first with a special permit to travel freely between West and East Berlin, managing to portray everyday life in the "brother country" (East Germany) as realistically and impartially as possible. His images - at once revealing, depressing, and humorous - preserve the bygone look of the "first Socialist state on German soil." 

Thomas Hoepker 1974

GERMANY. East Berlin. The "Betriebskampftruppen" in East Berlin... 

Thomas Hoepker 1975

EAST GERMANY. East Berlin. 1975. Celebrations of 30th anniversary... 

Thomas Hoepker 1974

GERMANY. East Berlin, 1974. Tournament dancers dressed up before... 

Thomas Hoepker 1974

GERMANY. Bautzen, 1974. Dilapidated house in Bautzen during an... 

Thomas Hoepker 1974

GERMANY. East Berlin. The rear window of a "Trabbi" (Trabant)... 

Thomas Hoepker 1975

EAST GERMANY. 1975. Functionaries of Communist Youth organization... 

Thomas Hoepker 1975

GERMANY. Berlin, 1975. Demonstration in Berlin in the district... 

Thomas Hoepker 1975

EAST GERMANY. ThŸringia. Weimar. 1975. A Goethe and Schiller... 

Thomas Hoepker 1963

GERMANY. West Berlin. 1963. A man takes souvenir photos of his... 

Thomas Hoepker 1975

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Thomas Hoepker 1975

GERMANY. East Berlin. Street in the district of Prenzlauer Berg.... 

Thomas Hoepker 1975

GERMANY. 1975. Dem Rep. demonstration in memory of 30 years of... 

Thomas Hoepker 1975

EASR GERMANY, GDR, 1975. Small private grocery store in Hoppenrade,... 

Thomas Hoepker 1974

1974. An SED propaganda poster reads "Thank you Soviet soldiers"... 

Thomas Hoepker 1974

East Germany/East Berlin. A married couple at a coffee table... 

Thomas Hoepker 1974

East Berlin. 1974. A store window of the Ministry of Culture's... 

Thomas Hoepker 1959

EAST GERMANY. East Berlin. 1959. The interior of the Friedrichstrasse... 

Thomas Hoepker 1990

GERMANY. 1990. Ascension Day celebration near Zittau, Saxony,... 

Thomas Hoepker 1991

EAST GERMANY. 1991. Milka cow (chocolate advertising) at new... 

Thomas Hoepker 1990

GERMANY. Berlin. October 3, 1990. Celebrating the German reunification... 

Thomas Hoepker 1990

EAST GERMANY. Borna, near Leipzig. 1990. Abandoned brown coal... 

Thomas Hoepker 1974

East Berlin. 1974. A window of an orthopedic shop with patriotic... 

Thomas Hoepker 1959

EAST GERMANY. East Berlin. 1959. Ten Year anniversary of GDR,... 

Thomas Hoepker 1974

EAST GERMANY. Berlin. 1974. Stefan HEYM, writer in front of a... 

Thomas Hoepker 1975

EAST GERNANY. 1975. Young men drafted into the GST line up in... 

Thomas Hoepker 1975

EAST GERMANY. Berlin-Grünheide. 1975. Philosopher Robert HAVEMANN... 

Thomas Hoepker 1975

EAST GERMANY. Berlin. 1975. Anna SEGHERS, writer and communist... 

Thomas Hoepker 1975

EAST GERNANY. East Berlin. 1975. Workers march with the national... 

Thomas Hoepker 1974

EAST GERMANY. East Berlin. 1974. Platz der Akademie (formerly... 

Thomas Hoepker 1975

GERMANY. Weimar. 1975. 1000 year anniversairy celebration of... 

Thomas Hoepker 1975

EAST GERMANY. 1975. World Women conference. Women in the audience... 

Thomas Hoepker 1974

East Berlin. 1974. Celebrations of 25 years of DDR. Russians... 

Thomas Hoepker 1963

GERMANY. Berlin. Children playing at the Berlin Wall in Berlin-Wedding.... 
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