Unzeitgemäße Zeitgenossen, Bronze sculpture in Leipzig, Germany.

Unzeitgemäße Zeitgenossen is a bronze sculpture consisting of five nude figures standing on a horizontal beam near Augustusplatz in central Leipzig. The installation occupies a pedestrian passage, forcing visitors to navigate directly through the work as they move through the area.

Bernd Göbel modelled the first figures in the late 1970s, naming them with words ending in "-iker" as a nod to dogmatists. Five of them were shown in 1982 at the IX. Kunstausstellung der DDR in Dresden. Talks with Leipzig about a permanent public installation began in the mid-1980s; the version with a high base and 14 aphorisms was designed from 1986, with Bernd-Lutz Lange involved. The bronze was cast in early 1990 at the Noack foundry, finished in September, and given to the city, which unveiled it on 14 November 1990.

The figures carry names ending in "-iker", pointing at dogmatists: Pädagogikerin, Diagnostiker, Rationalisatikerin, Stadtgestaltiker, Kunsttheoretiker. Each holds a gilded attribute — a wooden hammer, an ear trumpet, a saw, a laurel wreath with the finger on a detonator, a nose and ears. Fourteen aphorisms by Goethe, Brecht, Hochhuth, Heym and others are mounted on the column.

The column stands 1.90 metres high with a 2.90-metre crossbeam, set so that a person of normal height cannot pass beneath it without a mental jolt. The work sits near the eastern start of Grimmaische Straße by Augustusplatz; it was temporarily removed from 2006 to 2009 for the university campus redesign and the street's reconstruction.

Several elements of the sculpture, including a saw, an ear trumpet, ears, and a nose, are gilded with gold leaf. These gold-plated details create an eye-catching metallic contrast against the dark patina of the bronze figures.