Background information
"Actually, Michael KERSTGENS had no great photographic interest in the fall of the Wall and the turmoil of reunification. There was too much black, red and gold and too much Germanism - for his taste. He came to Mühlhausen in Thuringia by chance in March 1990. He was commissioned by a West German magazine to photograph the 'forgotten town'. His attitude changed during the work. What interested him more and more was life in the medieval town that had been left to its own devices, far removed from the 'Wende' centers of Berlin, Leipzig or Dresden that were the focus of the media - a historic town that had been patched up and kept alive by its citizens in a makeshift manner and was now suddenly at the center of Germany. The state was still called the GDR, but a few days before the Volkskammer elections on March 18, its end was already in sight. In this period between the times, Michael KERSTGENS observed the city and its inhabitants attentively and sympathetically with his camera. Thirty years later, his pictures prove to be unique testimonies to a historical moment - unspectacular and therefore all the more poignant." (© Lehmstedt Verlag, 2019)Contents
The out-of-print photo book 'ZwischenZeiten. Mühlhausen 1990' by Michael KERSTGENS shows mainly full-page black and white photographs with documentary content.
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Karsten Krampitz
- Format
- Fadengebundene Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 21 x 28 cm., 144 S., 85 S/W-Abbildungen im Duplex-Druck, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! - Auch als Sammler-Ausgabe mit Print erhältlich!