Stille / Silence


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Zwischen 1941 und
1945 wurden im Rahmen des Euthanasieprogramms der Nationalsozialisten
vermeintlich geistig Behinderte und psychisch Kranke in mehreren dafür
eigens eingerichteten Tötungsanstalten ermordet. Die Opfer waren
Menschen mit angeborener Behinderung, oder sie litten an Depressionen,
Front- oder Bombentraumata oder anderen Erkrankungen. Die größte dieser
Anstalten lag im hessischen Hadamar. |
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Die Fotografin Birthe Klementowski (geb. 1983) hat bislang zahlreiche Alben- und Magazincover gestaltet und wurde mit Beiträgen in "Konkursbuch 47: Der erotische Blick" (2008) und dem Magazin :Ikonen: gewürdigt. |
Between
1941 and 1945 the National Socialists killed ten thousands of so-called
'mentally ill and retarded' people within their 'Euthansia' program.
For this purpose they built special killing institutions where selected
people were brought and murdered. Among the victims were also people
with bomb and battle traumta. The bigges of these institutions was
located at the idyllic Hessian Hadamar. The building is nearly
untouched and is kept as a reminder of one of the darkest chapters of
German history.
The
multi-..media-..art-project '..Stille|..|Silence"
by German photo artist Birthe Klementowski and German soundartist
Vortex will document these incidents in an audio-visual way. The
carefully composed images shows what is still present from the killing
institution at Hadamar, some information is added by short quotes from
primary literary sources (German). The musical composition transposes
these aspects and atmospheres into a complex 45-mins.
electro-..acoustic composition, featuring manipulated piano and violin
sounds as well as field recordings.
A introductory essay is provided by the head of the Hadamar monument (German).
Photo
artist Birthe Klementowski (born 1983) has so far created several
album- and magazine-..covers and was celebrated in „Konkursbuch 47: Der
erotische Blick“ (2008) and the cultural magazine :Ikonen:.