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A hike from the westernmost to the easternmost point of Germany, in search of answers to the question: 'How do Germans live?' In the 25th year of reunification, photo journalist Dirk GEBHARDT hiked in eleven stages from Isenbruch in the west to Zentendorf in the east. He met monks in the monastery, foresters, local historians, country doctors, goat herders, people living in construction trailers, mayors, artists, refugees and farmers. He spent the night with them in the guest room, in the caravan or in the hunting lodge. Attentively and empathetically he observes the everyday life of the people, their hopes, doubts and wishes and documents it.
Contents
The photo and text volume 'Quer durch. Germany from West to East' by Dirk GEBHARDT is a 'social' reportage about the Conditio Humana of the Germans at the beginning of the 21st century. The 191 color photographs and texts are complemented by diagrams that graphically illustrate statistical data on topics such as demographic change, family and relationships, religion and faith, energy and sustainability, wealth and poverty, traditions and structural change, refugees, and minorities in the various German states.
Thus, the book is equally a book of photographs, a road movie, a social study, a travel guide through the center of Germany, and a tribute to the people the author met during his trek. List of localities from west to east: Isenbruch, Brigden, Erkelenz, Immerath, Jüchen, Knechtsteden, Zons, Monheim, Wermelskirchen, Wipperfürth, Marienheide, Meinerzhagen, Finntentrop, Bracht, Schmallenberg, Oberkirchen, Kahler Asten, Orketal, Korbach, Freienhagen, Kassel, Witzenhausen, Heiligenstadt, Worbis, Niederorschel, Sondershausen, Berka, Bad Frankenhausen, Querfurt, Mücheln, Leuna, Leipzig, Beucha, Wurzen, Riesa, Glaubitz, Großenhain, Skäßchen, K. nigsbrück, Kamenz, Panschwitz-Kuckau, Görlitz, Einsidel, Zentendorf." (© Nimbus Verlag, 2017)