Places of Remembrance – Berlin

Places of Remembrance - Memorial in Berlin-Schoeneberg (1993) by Renata Stih & Frieder Schnock

Places of Remembrance / Orte des Erinnerns is a decentralized memorial in the Bavarian Quarter in the Schoeneberg district of Berlin, which was inaugurated in 1993. 80 double-sided signs are put up on lampposts, depicting images on the one side and on the reverse side condensed versions of anti-Jewish Nazi rules and regulations passed between 1933 and 1945.

Together, the words and images force passers-by to remember the almost-forgotten history of this neighborhood, where Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Gisele Freund and Carl Einstein once lived.

Dispersed throughout the area the memorial becomes a metaphor of the daily deprivation of rights and humiliation, leading to deportations and mass murder of Jews during the Nazi era.

Texts & images: (c) Renata Stih & Frieder Schnock, Berlin VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn/Berlin Artists Rights Society, NY

In cooperation with: Visit Berlin Ivo Wessel, Berlin