Brienner 45
Brienner 45 is the title of an art-in-building work by the brothers Benjamin Heisenberg and Emanuel Heisenberg and Elisophie Eulenburg for the NS Documentation Center . The work was completed in April 2015 and is permanently installed. The title refers to the address of the " Brown House ", the former headquarters of the National Socialist Party NSDAP in Munich.
The work
The focus of the work is on filmic text-image collages on key documents from the National Socialist era . The films are shown on an installation of monitors in the outside area around the Nazi Documentation Center. The text passages are original documents by perpetrators and victims. They reflect the perspectives of known and unknown actors of the Nazi era and are partly related to the exhibition location, the former “ Brown House ” in Munich, to whose address the name of the exhibition “Brienner 45” refers.
The short films of the work of art are based on texts such as the hunter's report or the farewell letter from the 14-year-old boy Chaijm, who was found in the fence of a concentration camp. They draw possible outlines of the civilization catastrophe of the Third Reich. The documents have been processed into films 3–6 minutes in length. Each word has been assigned a picture that illustrates the meaning of the word. On average, the word-image pairs were lined up in the rhythm of slowly spoken language so that the text can be read and the images perceived in parallel. The monitors on which the short films can be seen are grouped individually and in groups around the Nazi Documentation Center.
History of the art competition
In 2012, the cultural department of the City of Munich invited ten artists to take part in an international art competition with the NS Documentation Center (Munich) and a concept for an "art in building project" for the new building of the NS Documentation Center on Brienner Strasse to develop. The art competition was entitled “Causes for the Rise of National Socialism in Munich - Consequences for the Present and Future”. Arnold Dreyblatt , Peter Götz and Elisabeth Lukas-Götz , Benjamin Heisenberg and Emanuel Heisenberg , Wolfram P. Kastner , Deimantas Narkevičius , Sigrid Sigurdsson , Taryn Simon , Georg Soanca-Pollak and Timm Ulrichs took part in the tender.
The artistic spectrum of the contributions included installations and sculptural designs, including works with a strongly conceptual and procedural character. In the course of the competition, in addition to an artist colloquium, two workshops with young people from Munich took place. The participating artists had the opportunity to discuss issues relating to artistic engagement with National Socialism with the young people.
The following were entitled to vote in the jury: the city's cultural advisor, voluntary city councilors, the chairman of the political advisory board of the Documentation Center and one representative each from the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture and the planning architects. The following were consulted: Helmut Friedel (Director Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus ), Susanne Gaensheimer (Director Museum for Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main), Cornelia Gockel (Chairwoman of the Commission for Art in Buildings and in Public Spaces ), Gerhard Hirschfeld ( University of Stuttgart ) , Romuald Karmakar (director), Merith Niehuss (President of the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich and Chairwoman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Documentation Center), Stella Rollig (Director Lentos Art Museum Linz).
The jury selected the contribution of the brothers Benjamin Heisenberg , Emanuel Heisenberg and Elisophie Eulenburg as the winning design. The design by Peter Götz and Elisabeth Lukas-Götz received an honorable mention. What was convincing about the Heisenberg brothers' artistic approach was the innovative narrative form of word-picture collages, "which, with high intellectual demands, also develops a strong emotional effect," said the jury in its reasoning. “The artists manage to“ disturb ”the viewer's perception and awareness in a positive way. The implementation deliberately breaks up levels of meaning. This productive irritation of accustomed ways of thinking and seeing forces the viewer to approach the subject in a new way. ”The culture committee of the Munich City Council followed the recommendation and unanimously decided on December 13, 2012, to install the media installation by the Heisenberg brothers around the Nazi Documentation Center (Munich ) to realize.
The work was opened together with the NS Documentation Center on April 30, 2015 and has been open to the public since the following day.
Web links
- NS Documentation Center Munich - art competition
- www.muenchen.de NS Documentation Center
- Reminder delayed: NS Documentation Center Munich Extensive dossier on BR.de with infographics
- [2] Benjamin Heisenberg's website
- Süddeutsche Zeitung: unobtrusively haunting [3]
- Image: NS Documentation Center, winner in the art competition [4]
- Report news Munich [5]
- Münchner Merkur: Touching, funny, wise [6]
- Goethe Institute: Double the burden [7]
- Münchner Merkur: Irritating flood of images [8]