• Ruth Stoltenberg Objekt I Untersuchungshaftanstalt und Haftkrankenhaus Berlin-Hohenschönhausen
  • Ruth Stoltenberg Objekt I Untersuchungshaftanstalt und Haftkrankenhaus Berlin-Hohenschönhausen
  • Ruth Stoltenberg Objekt I Untersuchungshaftanstalt und Haftkrankenhaus Berlin-Hohenschönhausen
  • Ruth Stoltenberg Objekt I Untersuchungshaftanstalt und Haftkrankenhaus Berlin-Hohenschönhausen
  • Ruth Stoltenberg Objekt I Untersuchungshaftanstalt und Haftkrankenhaus Berlin-Hohenschönhausen

Ruth Stoltenberg Objekt I Untersuchungshaftanstalt und Haftkrankenhaus Berlin-Hohenschönhausen

Ruth Stoltenberg's work shows us the former Berlin-Hohenschönhausen detention center and the accompanying prison hospital from a very personal perspective: the sensitive photographs are accompanied by accounts by eyewitnesses of their horrific experiences at the hands of the East German Stasi in these very rooms. Especially thought-provoking are the interior views of the interrogation rooms, which were meant to project a cozy living-room atmosphere in contrast to the sparsely furnished cells in order to move prisoners to divulge information. The chairs on which those questioned were seated loom large in these images, standing for the many individual fates that were once sealed on the premises. They are not only witnesses of the inmates martyrdom but also do they symbolize their only conncetion to the outside world. The central questions that shaped Stoltenberg's photo series were: How powerful is our instinctive urge for freedom? How can an individual bear being at the absolute mercy of others, subjected to torture and strategies for breaking down his will? How is it possible to live through so many days, weeks and months of uncertainty and fear? What is the prisoner's perception of time passing? What does he reveal to his interrogator in the long hours of questioning? Bereft of any sensationalism, Stoltenberg's photographs have a profound simplicity that is shocking in its own way.

Hardcover with dust jacket, and 24 pages english booklet 22 x 28 cm 128 pages 80 color illustrations English, German Available ISBN 978-3-86828-601-4 2015

Artist:

Ruth Stoltenberg

Texts:

Ruth Stoltenberg, Roland Jahn, Wolfgang Zurborn

Design:

Ruth Stoltenberg, Kehrer Design (Loreen Lampe)

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Exhibitions

Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Andreasstraße, Erfurt
17.03. – 08.05.2016

Gedenkstätte Amthordurchgang, Gera
10.05. – 28.06.2016

Dokumentations- und Gedenkstätte Rostock
12.07. – 01.10.2016

Book Signings

Museum Runde Ecke, Leipzig
18.03.2016

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