Interview on Slow Travel Berlin (12.05.2015)


by Marcel Krueger.

 “The most interesting part of this project has always been trying to verify our research. We often started from a map, or websites or books, searching for relevant buildings or statues and then visiting the sites and hoping that things were still there.  Sometimes we’ve had only photos made by the soldiers to go on, and we have to try and match the place now to how it was then. Many times we found no traces at all, but other times we were lucky, discovering an abandoned statue in a forest…that was our reward.”

 Full article: http://www.slowtravelberlin.com/we-will-forget-soon
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Uniquities of a disappearing world - Airfields

The photographic project has investigated different aspects of this history, starting from photography and history, but also trying to identify the future and the marks of this story on the architectures and the buildings around the country. Focus of one part of the investigation has been the need to understand where is still possible to say or not that these buildings has a background related with the history of the Soviet Union in East Germany.
These case studies are related to the former airfields that the photographers Stefano Corso and Dario-Jacopo Laganà have found during the 2 years of the project, used in unique ways.

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Among the possible uses of the airfields, the use as solar field is the most common, for the flat concrete base of the ground.

A small portion of this airport is now used as Go-Kart circuit in Brandenburg

Tropical Islands are becoming recently famous as report and theme park, housed in the “Aerium”, a former airship hangar - the biggest free-standing hall in the world, built for the development of a heavy lift airship, but the company went insolvent. The building is on the former military Wehrmachts-Luftwaffe airfield in Brandenburg, then used by the Soviet Army from 1950 to 1994.

The Fusion Festival, whose name is written in Cyrillic and already draws a connection with this story, is considered by many as the European Burning Man. It Is a festival of music and art organized by Kulturkosmos since 1997, held in the north of Berlin at the former military airport of Läry/Müritz, reopened for civilian use in 1994. The hangars and the bunkers are now used as facilities for art and music of the festival.

The areas near the airfield and the hangars of this airport are now used as Bio-gas facilities
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Restored Soviet War Memorial in Schönholzer Heide (Pankow)

Although the Sowjetisches Ehrenmal - Soviet War Memorial (Treptower park) is considered the most massive one, a couple of years ago we've discovered also this smaller Soviet Memorial, very curated, with a lot of small details and it is worth a visit.

More infos: WIKI
Map: http://goo.gl/maps/VRmQ4

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PRESS "#Muro Berlino, a caccia di segni dell’Armata rossa 25 anni dopo" (ITA)

“Siamo a Potsdam, dietro a noi ci sono le prigioni del Kgb riadibite a centro di documentazione” racconta ad Askanews Dario J. Lagana, fotografo che con il collega Stefano Corso ha coperto per un anno e mezzo 8.000 km in tutta la ex Germania dell’Est, dal Nord, ossia da Mukran al sud, Schneekopf.

"We are in Potsdam, behind us there are the former prisons of the KGB that are now a documentation center" tells to Askanews Dario J. Lagana, photographer who with the colleague Stefano Corso has covered for a year and a half 8000 km throughout the former East Germany, from the North, ie from Mukran to the south, Schneekopf.
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PRESS "Alla scoperta dei simboli sovietici a Berlino" (ITA)

Article and video by Askanews agency

"A prima vista è difficile riconoscere i vari segni che la storia dell'Armata Rossa ha lasciato a Berlino e nella Germania dell'Est. Uno sguardo un po' più attento invece ne può trovare diversi. C'è sicuramente la statua di Lenin che in realtà era stata presa dai nazisti e doveva essere fusa".

"At first glance it is difficult to recognize the various signs that the history of the Red Army left in Berlin and East Germany. A look a bit 'more careful instead can find several ones. There is definitely a statue of Lenin actually had been taken by the Nazis and had to be merged. "
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