"Die Zwangsarbeiter" by Christian Boltanski (Völklingen, Saarland, Germany)

 

An imposing block of card files, then a long, narrow corridor, framed on both sides by similarly floor-to-ceiling card files, at the end a dark, almost black pile, not immediately apparent. A whispering voice continuously murmurs names from all over the world. 

Monotonous. Endless. 

 

Cold shivers run down my spine. It is, for me, an indescribably powerful work commemorating the forced laborers during the Nazi dictatorship who were enslaved and exploited here in steel production.

"Die Zwangsarbeiter" by Christian Boltanski, 1944 - 2021

https://voelklinger-huette.org/.../christian-boltanski.../

(Völklingen Ironworks, Völklingen, Saarland, Germany, February 7th, 2026)

 

Dahoam is dahoam: "Die perfekte Welle" (München, Bayern)

Europapark in High Summer - "Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate..." (Europapark Rust, Germany, July 2026)

Per me si va ne la città dolente,
per me si va ne l’etterno dolore,
per me si va tra la perduta gente.  

Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore:
fecemi la divina podestate,

la somma sapienza e ’l primo amore.

Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create
se non etterne, e io etterno duro.
Lasciate ogne speranza, 
voi ch’intrate. 

Queste parole di colore oscuro
vid'io scritte al sommo d'una porta;
per ch’io: 
Maestro, il senso lor m'e` duro.

 

"Canto III" from

"Divina Comedia", Dante Alighieri

 

Music: "Sentimiento Nuevo"
by Franco Battiato e Alice

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Dahoam is' dahoam!" (München, Bayern)

"Dahoam is dahoam, und mehra sog' I ned!" (München, September 2024)

Musik: "Isarflimmern" von Willy Michl, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1yTEkDXD-c