Sheet (memorial)

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Memorial sheet by Ullman, Hecker and Weizman with a view of a Bundesdruckerei building

The memorial sheet is a work by the three Israeli artists Micha Ullman , Zvi Hecker and Eyal Weizman . It is in an inner courtyard of the Barmer Ersatzkasse on Axel-Springer-Strasse in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg . It is part of an eleven-part exhibition entitled Art - City - Space of the Berlinische Galerie , which can be seen in public space.

construction

The work from 1997 consists of concrete benches , each of which is around 50 cm high. The total area of ​​the plant is about 30 meters × 20 meters.

background

The commercial building Place of Remembrance of the Barmer Ersatzkasse in Berlin is located in the southern Friedrichstadt ; an area in which many testimonies of Jewish culture can be found. This is thanks to the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II , who through acculturation made southern Friedrichstadt a preferred residential area for liberal Jewry. At the location of today's health insurance company, the Lindenstrasse synagogue was built according to plans by Cremer & Wolffenstein in the years 1889–1891 . With 1,800 seats, it was the largest sacred building in Berlin at the time. After the building caught fire and was badly damaged during the November pogroms in 1938 , further damage in the Second World War resulted in the synagogue being demolished in 1956.

symbolism

The memorial is reminiscent of this synagogue, in which the arrangement of the benches reproduces the exact floor plan of the former building. They represent a single page, a sheet (hence the name of the memorial) from a Jewish prayer book - the Talmud .

Memorial plaque at Axel-Springer-Strasse 50

Like the Talmud, the memorial is made up of several layers . The past, the Mishnah , is represented by the benches. The destruction that has taken place at this point is represented by the vegetation that grows over the banks over time. This is to be equated with the Gemara . The third layer of the Talmud, the commentaries, are in turn represented by the fire service driveway that runs through the memorial. A “narrative of loss”.

Others

Since the memorial is on the private property of the health insurance company, it can only be viewed on weekdays. A gate blocks access at the weekend. However, there are three memorial plaques in the driveway that are still accessible.

As a counterpoint to this memorial, there is another work by Micha Ullman entitled Nobody further south in Lindenstrasse .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörn Merkert: ART - CITY - SPACE. An ensemble of eleven works of art between the Berlin Gallery and the Jewish Museum. Druckhaus Berlin-Mitte, Berlin 2005 ( PDF file , sculptural folding plan of the Berlinische Galerie, accessed on February 18, 2011).
  2. ↑ Horst Zeitler: Station 13: From the house of worship to the grain silo - The Liberal Synagogue in Lindenstrasse. On the education server Berlin Brandenburg . Retrieved February 18, 2011.
  3. ↑ Liberal Synagogue Memorial. on Zeitungsviertel.de, accessed on February 18, 2011
  4. ↑ Micha Ullman / Zvi Hecker / Eyal Weizmann: Blatt, 1997  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.berlinischegalerie.de   Information from the Berlinische Galerie on the memorial.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 30.7 ″  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 1.5 ″  E