OBJEKT I

Ruth Stoltenbergs work shows us the former Berlin-Hohenschönhausen detention center and the accompanying prison hospital from a ver y personal perspective: the sensitive photographs are accompanied by accounts by eyewitnesses of their horrific experiences at the h ands of the East German Stasi in these very rooms. Especially thought-provoking are the interior views of the interrogation rooms, w hich were meant to project a cozy living-room atmosphere in contrast to the sparsely furnished cells in order to move prisoners to d ivulge in...[Read more]