In 1957 Hugh Stubbins designed the utopian architecture of the HKW as a conscious counterpart to the Stalin Allee in East Berlin. In the Matinée on Sunday the plot of the GDR's first Science Fiction film will unfold in this very building: Der Schweigende Stern (First Spaceship on Venus, 1959) by Kurt Maetzig pictures the dark vision of a failed civilisation.
Socialism is the most extensive social experiment in the history of humankind that is based on an initially utopian, then scientific, notion of the future: Communism. It is from this realm that one of the few Science Fiction works emerged...
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