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Inventions of a survival inventor
The Globumat is a luminous and sounding advertising device, designed and patented in the early 1930s by the Berlin tailor Walter Altmann. The inventor envisioned that the Globumat should be hung in busy places in the city. It would have fitted in very well with the promising electrification of everyday urban life.
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Villa Oppenheim - Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
Walter Altmann spent his life constructing things that would make everyday life easier. He tinkered and tinkered, wanted to market his inventions and make a living from them. The National Socialists prevented him from exploiting his patents because Walter Altmann was Jewish. His memoirs "Ohne das Lachen zu verlieren" (Without Losing Your Laughter) bear witness to the years of persecution, exile and imprisonment in concentration camps.
The exhibition is dedicated to the obstinacy of Walter Altmann's life and his inventions. The occasion is the restoration of the Globumat from the museum's collections, which was completed this year in cooperation with the HTW.Translated with DeepL
