Revolution und Krieg
Revolution und Krieg covers more than 600 square metres on the Iltisbunker facade in Kiel-Gaarden. Shahin Charmi completed the mural in November 1989, marking the seventieth anniversary of the 1918 November Revolution and Rosa Luxemburg’s assassination.
A fragmented sequence begins with workers and sailors carrying red flags from Gaarden towards Wilhelmplatz. In the foreground, workers stand beside a ship engine recalling Kiel’s shipyards, while a female nude links the scene to the French Revolution and the wish for a free, just society. Above her, Rosa Luxemburg watches Gustav Noske’s betrayal of the revolution and continuing militarism.
The black-shrouded second act traces the Weimar Republic’s rise and collapse through National Socialism. November pogroms, concentration and labour camps, and the outbreak of the Second World War bring the narrative to its darkest point. Political debate surrounded the work before completion, and November 2018 brought monument protection.
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