M/Deine Heimat

How does the personal idea of home change, if you have to leave everything?
An overseecontainer as a place that opens new perspectives on refuge and home.
Audiotestimonials of people from East Prussia (former Germany), who had to leave the area arround Kaliningrad (Russia) as children or teenagers during the second worldwar counteract with statements of russian inhabitants, that were relocated in this teritory after 1945.
The confrontation of contemporary witnesses does not only tell personal stories, but invites the recipient to think about his own definition of home.

The Installation was show in the old harbourarrea during the Sommerblut Kulturfestival in Cologne.

Exhibition
May 2013 | Galerie Lehm, Cologne


Protagonists:

Rita
21 Years - Born in Kirgisien, lives in Chenikowsk/Russia (former Insterburg) (Audio: Interview in the castle Insterburg)

Ada
74 Years - Born in Urkaine, lives since 1948 in Gusev/Russia (former Gumbinnen) (Audio: Interview in the german protestant Church)

Lisa
71 Years - born in Nasaven (now Lessivtoje/Russia), lives in Hannover/Germany (Audio: Ruines of the former House of her family)

Klaus
76 Years - born in Nasaven (now Lessivtoje/Russia), lives in Karlsruhe/Germany (Audio: Ruines of the former House of her family)

Elisabeth
83 Jahre - Born in Budkonen (now Bodkuny/Poland) , lives in Berlin/Germany (O-Ton: at the bus, together with other old refugees from East Prussia)