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title: '"Plane mit Arbeite mit Regiere mit!": town-hall banner, Königstein (Saxon Switzerland)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-plane-mit-banner-koenigstein-1960/
description: 'A long dark banner with white capitals hangs across the front of a town hall above a ground-floor row of windows, under the town''s coat of arms: ''Plane…'
section: Collection
---

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[!["Plane mit Arbeite mit Regiere mit!": town-hall banner, Königstein (Saxon Switzerland)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/gdr-plane-mit-banner-koenigstein-1960.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/gdr-plane-mit-banner-koenigstein-1960.jpg)

# "Plane mit Arbeite mit Regiere mit!": town-hall banner, Königstein (Saxon Switzerland)

A long dark banner with white capitals hangs across the front of a town hall above a ground-floor row of windows, under the town's coat of arms: 'Plane mit Arbeite mit Regiere mit!'. Three verbs invite every resident to share in planning, work and government. The line names no plan, task or body; participation itself is the message.

- **Date:** 1960
- **Period:** [Cold War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=cold-war)
- **Made by:** Not named on the banner; displayed on the Rathaus of Königstein (Saxon Switzerland), GDR
- **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe)
- **Country:** [East Germany](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=east-germany)
- **Medium:** [Signs and banners](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=sign-banner)
- **Issuer type:** [Mixed](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=mixed)
- **Regime:** [German Democratic Republic](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=german-democratic-republic)
- **Leader:** [Walter Ulbricht](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=walter-ulbricht)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply)
- **Themes:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics), [Labor](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=labor)
- **Techniques:** [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)
- **Source:** Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- **Source:** [Fortepan (donor: Kurutz Márton)](https://fortepan.hu/en/photos/?id=11194), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** CC BY-SA 3.0 (Fortepan site footer, quoted in notes); covers the photograph only Fortepan / Kurutz Márton, ID 11194 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

## Text on the object

Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
PLANE MIT ARBEITE MIT REGIERE MIT !

[on the building: 'Rathaus'; on the neighbouring house: 'Ratskel[ler]' (partly cut off)]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
PLAN WITH, WORK WITH, GOVERN WITH !

[on the building: 'Town hall'; on the neighbouring house: 'Ratskel[ler]' (partly cut off)]
```

Banner text read from the committed 1280 px image; the building lettering is background.

[← Crowd at the Arkansas State Capitol protesting school integration, with signs reading "Race mixing is Communism," Little Rock, Arkansas](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/race-mixing-is-communism-1959/) [Cooperative farmers watch Ulbricht's Volkskammer statement on television, Höhnstedt →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gdr-hoehnstedt-farmers-watch-ulbricht-broadcast-1960/)

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