vastus
In just sixty years, the vulnerable Sorbian landscape was transformed into a deeply scarred region. After the war, the formerly better Silesian hard coal was …
# ChangingSocieties
below us
Continents rose, mountains rose, new seas formed, deep forests emerged and disappeared. A variety of plants and animals developed and disappeared again. All this we …
Something new in the East
Since the Ukraine crisis in 2014, many points of conflict and fears in Eastern Europe have become topical again. This crisis has many causes, which …
Memorial I
In German, the fallen are those who did not return, the dead who gave their lives for a cause. They stumbled beforehand and simply fell …
Käthes forgotten garden
Silent contemporary witnesses can be found again and again in the landscape. There are buildings, paths, trees, objects, bushes and traces to discover. Most of …
a lonely sail
Signs warn against bathing. The water is contaminated. Cracked and weathered concrete on the beach. Rolling pebbles, parasols made of metal, blue, green and yellow …
through the dark country
On nights without a moon, forests and fields are very dark. The darkness swallows up the land. The trees, shrubs and animals are there, of …
WHH GT 18 . a portrait
WHH GT 18 was the name of a standardized block of flats in the GDR. It was developed between 1969 to 1971 for the Wohnungsbaukombinat, …
granica
Geografically, Berlin is in the East of Germany. Many visitors and inhabitants have the feeling, however, that Berlin is in the middle of the Republic. …
deserted villages
In the discussion about the depopulation in the north-east of Germany, the almost forgotten word “Wuestung” (deserted settlement) is being mentioned more and more often. …
final image
In the past years many schools in Germany have been closed. Some have been converted to other uses, others stand abandoned or have been pulled …