There is a Photo Exhibition in the Lounge area on Level 2 of the Central Library running until the end of this week.
This has been set up by the National Centre for Research on Europe, here at the University. The display of photos comes from the Goethe-Insitut and is celebrating 20 years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Goethe-Institut (GI) (Goethe Institute in English) is a non-profit German cultural institution operational worldwide, promoting the study of the German language abroad and encouraging international cultural exchange and relations
About the exhibition
While travelling around East Germany in 1990 – after the fall of the Wall but before reunification – Stefan Koppelkamm found himself wanting to take photographs that would capture a state of affairs he assumed would never recur. The buildings, streets and squares he photographed often looked as though time had stood still, together conveying an idea of how Germany might have looked before the Second World War. Ten or twelve years later, Stefan Koppelkamm sought all these places out again and photographed them for a second time, from exactly the same viewpoints. The pairs of images produced like this show that many of the locations have undergone profound changes.
The Goethe-Institut's exhibition includes a representative selection from the Ortzeit – Local Time project.
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