As students at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts we of course had participated in the events of autumn 89. Regardless of whether it had to do with the construction of an installation against the prohibition of the Sputnik, the duplication of papers of Neues Forum or the participation in the Monday demonstrations. For that it might be amazing, that despite the confusions we for one thing unerringly adhered to our self-set goals of study and on the other hand clearly stayed away from the numerous undertakings of the Demo photos which were blossoming to the fullest everywhere. At times of greatest euphoria, almost ignoring the events, we together travelled to the deepest solitude of the Wische and with our bulky cameras took pictures of the landscape and the small town structures. We did this perhaps subconsciously knowing that with the change announcing itself much would have to be documented with our work. In preparation to the build-up of a planned exhibition of the Leipzig School at the Künstlerbahnhof Westend and in the University of Arts, the opportunity for a longer stay in West Berlin only came up in the first January days of the year 1990. Light snow covered the no-man’s-land of the former border strip and clouded the distant view. On steel supports the commuter train path leads through the scenery with easy swing. One section has been removed from the steel fence in front of it. At the left the Berlin Wall, being visibly battered by wall peckers, further guides the view to two figures which are small and only to be seen with their backs. They seem to be disappearing from the picture. The traces in the fresh snow are not permanent. A picture, which at the end of the base studies in 1990, for the first time became a precise reflection of my mood.
