Central Saxony – Lights and Shadows Central Saxony, in the sense of this small photographic field trip, is wider than the Saxon district of the same name. A region was roamed, which is bordered by the Elbe river between Dresden and Torgau in the east and between Chemnitz and Leipzig in the west. At the center of my observations were small and medium-sized towns, whose names are not unknown from signposts along the A4 and A14 motorways or as railway stations, but so far have mostly been blind spots on my visual map. Most of these cities and towns have in common an almost perfectly refurbished center – at least the marketplace,
Provincial train stations – a continuation More than a year ago, inspired by the impressions of a train journey from Zittau to Dresden, I followed this route by bike and camera and the connection Zittau – Goerlitz to document the condition of the stations and my observations. The results of that time can be found in the form of two photo series in the article: Suspended? Provincial railway (-stations) in Eastern Saxony Even then, there was the idea of continuing the project and including the stations along the Bischofswerda – Goerlitz, Goerlitz – Cottbus lines (to Schleife, the last station in Saxony) and between Hoyerswerda and
Dresden in spring 2020 – People Buying food is one of the permitted exceptions to the requirement to stay at home, which was issued in spring 2020 in Dresden as part of the general decree to combat the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
Dresden 50mm – Easter Update Since the beginning of the year, my project started in 2015: Dresden 50mm grew by nine neighborhoods: Coschuetz Gompitz Grosszschachwitz Kaitz Mockritz Nickern Striesen Suedvorstadt Weissig With a total of 94 photo series now available, a good 3/4 of the project scope has been completed from a photographic point of view. All previously created photo series are shown on the project page. Note: Clicking on a photo starts the related gallery view.
Dresden in spring 2020 Dresden, spring 2020, impressions of the exit restriction during the COVID-19 pandemic
Bauhaus Dessau On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, a series of black and white photographs was created in Dessau, which deals with the 1926-built school and workshop complex and the master houses in the Dessau Ebertallee.
Flying visit in the “Pott” About 1000 kilometers lie between the Upper Silesian and the Rhine-Westphalian industrial area. In the past few years, I have covered the 500km in eastern direction several times to realize the photo project Górny Śląsk. In 2019, I headed west to visit an industrial region with a similar history for the first time. Both regions were and are dominated by the mining industry, whose decline and the associated transformation processes in the Ruhr area began at the end of the 1950s, while in Upper Silesia the change began with the fall of the Iron Curtain and with the accession of Poland to the
Eisenhuettenstadt – A photographic tour … … in a town of real existing socialism 30 years after its demise ‘Hütte’ (acronym for ironworks), as the town on the west bank of the Oder is affectionately known by its inhabitants, was built at the beginning of the 50s of the last century as a socialist planned city and is today the largest surface monument in Germany. The construction of Eisenhüttenstadt goes back to a decision of the 3rd Party Congress of the SED in 1950, which provided for the construction of an ironworks and an associated socialist residential town near Fürstenberg on the Oder river. In the same year, the ground was
Dresden 50mm Update May 2019 The most recent addition to the Dresden 50mm project launched in 2015 comprises five neighborhoods: Aeussere Neustadt Seevorstadt-Ost Niedersedlitz Reick Seidnitz The resulting photo series are published on the project page.
Suspended? Provincial train stations in Eastern Saxony A trip by train from Zittau back to Dresden in autumn 2018 inspired me to a small photo project whose implementation could be realized in the Easter season 2019. With bike and camera I traveled along the railway lines between Bischofswerda, Zittau and Görlitz. 20 years after the company Deutsche Bahn began to sell more than 2,000 train station buildings and properties in Germany on a large scale, because they were considered unprofitable, the effects are now clearly visible. While larger towns have been willing and able to maintain and modernize their stations, many others, either in the
