"'Der Rauch verbindet die Städte nicht mehr' (Engl.: The smoke does not connect the cities anymore) is what Andreas Rossman calls his book about the Ruhr area, based on a 1926 report by Joseph Roth.
Barbara KLEMM's pictures do not illustrate the texts, but punctuate them. Standalone in their meeting of the moment, they set atmospheric highlights.
Rossmann says in his photo-text book 'Der Rauch verbindet die Städte nicht mehr' two things: The reality and their perception have changed; The Ruhr area looks different today, it is new to look at. Like anywhere else in Germany, social change can still be seen on a large scale. The heavy industry, which has always determined our ideas of the area, loses its stamping power and gives more than just a historical backdrop.
Andreas Rossmann, since 1986 editor of the Feuilleton Correspondent of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in North Rhine-Westphalia, has (not only) accompanied the International Building Exhibition 'Emscher Park' (1989-1999) and the European Capital of Culture Ruhr 2010 journalistically.
His explorations lead to classical sights and small everyday life, visit museums and monuments, climb on heaps and blast furnaces, enter tribunes and drinking halls, catch scenes and moods.
Not in the large, to completeness arranged overview, but from many characteristic mosaic stones the portrait of a somewhat different cultural landscape arises, which can still be discovered in its variety and peculiarity. The photos by Barbara KLEMM, the editorial photographer of F.A.Z. became a chronicler of the Federal Republic, telling a story of her own." (publisher's note, © König, 2012)
More books by Barbara KLEMM and Andreas Rossmann are:
"Mit dem Rücken zum Meer. Ein sizilianisches Tagebuch' (engl. Backwards to the Sea. A Sicilian Diary), 2017
Barbara KLEMM's pictures do not illustrate the texts, but punctuate them. Standalone in their meeting of the moment, they set atmospheric highlights.
Rossmann says in his photo-text book 'Der Rauch verbindet die Städte nicht mehr' two things: The reality and their perception have changed; The Ruhr area looks different today, it is new to look at. Like anywhere else in Germany, social change can still be seen on a large scale. The heavy industry, which has always determined our ideas of the area, loses its stamping power and gives more than just a historical backdrop.
Andreas Rossmann, since 1986 editor of the Feuilleton Correspondent of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in North Rhine-Westphalia, has (not only) accompanied the International Building Exhibition 'Emscher Park' (1989-1999) and the European Capital of Culture Ruhr 2010 journalistically.
His explorations lead to classical sights and small everyday life, visit museums and monuments, climb on heaps and blast furnaces, enter tribunes and drinking halls, catch scenes and moods.
Not in the large, to completeness arranged overview, but from many characteristic mosaic stones the portrait of a somewhat different cultural landscape arises, which can still be discovered in its variety and peculiarity. The photos by Barbara KLEMM, the editorial photographer of F.A.Z. became a chronicler of the Federal Republic, telling a story of her own." (publisher's note, © König, 2012)
More books by Barbara KLEMM and Andreas Rossmann are:
"Mit dem Rücken zum Meer. Ein sizilianisches Tagebuch' (engl. Backwards to the Sea. A Sicilian Diary), 2017
- Format
- Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 264 S. mit 25 ganz- bzw. doppelseitigen S/W-Abb., Bibliographie, Indices, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!