Cultural Heritage of Graffiti in Germany and Russia

Student: Dergalov Ruslan

Supervisor: Gasan Gusejnov

Educational Programme: Cultural and Intellectual History: Between East and West (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2019

This paper is devoted to the problem of the relationship between the concept of "heritage" and the concept of "graffiti" on the example of the symbolic quotation of the action "The Fall of the Blue Fence" in Nizhny Novgorod and the modern existence of the East Side Gallery in Berlin. The main theoretical basis is the work in the field of graffiti studies and the problem of heritage relations and graffiti, which investigates the Australian scientist Sam Merrill. The result was a comprehensive review of the citation of the Berlin Wall in the urban space of Nizhny Novgorod, a description of the commercialization of the Fence and the death of the Blue Fence as a graffiti platform, marking the new power and positive changes in the urban environment.

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