Algerien, L'Algérie

Title: Algerien, L'Algérie

Photographer(s): Dirk Alvermann

Writer(s): Dirk Alvermann

Designer(s): Dirk Alvermann

Publisher(s): Steidl, Göttingen, Germany, 2010 as Box Protest

Year: 2010

Print run:

Language(s): German

Pages: 224

Size: 11 x 18 cm

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st edition Rütten & Loening, Berlin, ex DDR , Germany, 1960. 3rd edition 2011 Steidl, Göttingen, Germany

Print: Steidl, Göttingen, Germany

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Algeria,1960

ISBN: 9783869301310

Back in West Germany, Alvermann wanted to make his pictures accessible to as many people as possible, and the format of the Rowohlts rotary novels (Publisher in west Germany), which has been published since 1950, was ideal for this. A publication commitment from Rowohlt Verlag was withdrawn, however. The Algerian war and the struggle of the Algerian liberation front FLN was too sensitive a topic for the Adenauer Republic, which was committed to the Franco-German reconciliation.

So the book was published in ex DDR by Rütten & Loening in Berlin.

A new edition of Algeria (ed.Steidl 2012) goes back to the original idea of ​​the photographer, in fact the book is designed in the traditional Rororo format, has the desired cardboard cover and corresponds in content to the first draft in every detail. Political contemporary documents, quotations from French military sources, from pamphlets, newspapers and magazines accompanied the photographs. The book is more topical today than ever, because it tells of the rebellion of a people against oppression and arbitrariness: be it against European colonialism, be it against homemade dictatorial regimes as it is today.