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Bettina Flitner in Hamburg
Bettina Flitner in Hamburg
November 2, 2016
“I came over in 1960. I was a miner in the Lausitz. When I wanted to visit my mother, I always had to pay a fee. That really wasn’t on.” © Bettina Flitner
Berlin’s border area following the fall of the Wall – spring/summer 1990. For many months, the photographer Bettina Flitner explored Berlin’s former “death strip”, the divided city’s border area that became a no-man’s land after the Wall came down in 1989. This is where she met people from both east and west and asked them, “What do you feel now?”
Among other places, the reportage appeared in the M Magazine No. 2, and will now be on display at Leica Fotografie International, Springeltwiete 4, 20099 Hamburg, from November 2 to 23, 2106.
The exhibition vernissage and an Artist Talk will take place on November 2, 2016, at 19:00.
Accompanying event:
November 9, 2016, 18:00
Davongekrault! Fluchten über die Ostsee (Swimming to freedom. Escape over the Baltic Sea). Presentation with podium discussion: Axel Mitbauer, former East German top swimmer, Dr. Volker Höffer, BstU Rostock, Dr. René Wiese, Zentrum deutsche Sportgeschichte (Centre for German Sports History)
Free entry
Among other places, the reportage appeared in the M Magazine No. 2, and will now be on display at Leica Fotografie International, Springeltwiete 4, 20099 Hamburg, from November 2 to 23, 2106.
The exhibition vernissage and an Artist Talk will take place on November 2, 2016, at 19:00.
Accompanying event:
November 9, 2016, 18:00
Davongekrault! Fluchten über die Ostsee (Swimming to freedom. Escape over the Baltic Sea). Presentation with podium discussion: Axel Mitbauer, former East German top swimmer, Dr. Volker Höffer, BstU Rostock, Dr. René Wiese, Zentrum deutsche Sportgeschichte (Centre for German Sports History)
Free entry
“I came over in 1960. I was a miner in the Lausitz. When I wanted to visit my mother, I always had to pay a fee. That really wasn’t on.” © Bettina Flitner
“I have 500 marks a month. A meal used to cost 30 pennies, now it comes from the west and, starting next week, it’ll cost 4 marks. Then I’ll stop eating and start saving up for my funeral.” © Bettina Flitner
“What are we doing here? We’re working at the Lazarus Hospital, just up ahead. We’re happy to be able to take a walk here. And you? Aren’t you from Berlin?” © Bettina Flitner