Peter Michel

Because of public criticism of the curriculum for the subject art education, Michel was regulated in 1976 by the Ministerium für Volksbildung (DDR) [de].

A year later, a controversy followed with politician Hans Koch [de] about the contemporary nature of the term "Socialist Realism".

From 1987 to 1989 he worked as secretary of the central committee of the Verband Bildender Künstler der DDR [de] (VBK).

Up to the dissolution of the publishing house structure he was for a short time artistic-technical director of the Kinderbuchverlag Berlin [de]; then unemployment followed.

He was speaker of the GBM's "Culture" working group and a founding member of the "Art from the GDR" circle of friends.