Gagarin als Erinnerungsfigur und Archivkörper. Workshop und Filmreihe.

The article presents the summary of a workshop that focused on the legacy and memory of Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin that was held April 15-16, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Topics under discussion included Gagarin's visit to Erfuhrt, Germany in 1963 for the German Democratic Republic elections, the representation of Yuri Gagarin and other Russian cosmonauts in Russian newspaper articles, as well as an analysis of his transmissions from outer space in the 1960s.