Personal Art Work
Times are tough - very tough. For almost everybody worldwide. But sometimes a look into the past helps - and suddenly everything appears in a slightly different light. On 2020-05-08 we celebrate "75 years of the end of the 2nd world war and the Nazi regime". What do I learn from this for my uncertain future?
There is not much that makes me cringe. And only a few times I have found myself in a situation where I had only one thought: Get out of here! The Plötzesee Memorial near Berlin was one of these places. A place of pure horror.
Closed restaurants. Closed shops. Deserted streets and squares. This is the city of Salzburg's appearance since 2020-03-16. The Getreidegasse, which was still heavily frequented days ago, appears to be completely extinct.
Welcome to the Ides of March 2020.
What do a photo from the year 2006 and a photo from the year 2018 have in common?
Some very personal thoughts about our difficult current situation. The conclusion for me is: "In everything negative there is also something positive". Therefore: Chin up and get through it!
From time to time we experience historically significant events. Some are positive, others are completely dispensable. We are experiencing one such negative episode in history right now: the greatest global health disaster of the last 100 years. The following post is a kind of "photographic diary" of the events of the first half of March 2020 as I experienced them. It reflects my personal mood of these momentous days.
In June 1987 the former US President Ronald Reagan spoke the famous words during his visit to Berlin: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" 2 years and 6 months later the Berlin Wall - "Iron Curtain" - became history. The 2 photos for my personal piece art "Tear down this wall!" were taken in 2019 during my visit to Berlin. Together, the two photographs symbolize for me the time from 1933 - 1989 in Berlin: after 56 years and two dictatorships, East Berliners are streaming through the Iron...
From October 1941 until the end of the war in 1945, over 50,000 Jews were deported from Grunewald station to concentration camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau and Theresienstadt.