Jail sessions - Berlin

Coming to the jail

Berlin, 2020

My relationship to history isn’t probably the best one. As a child, not that I found it boring, but I simply couldn’t really relate to the topic so much. It all felt so far away and I had hard times to picture living lives behind what was historically happening.

Now, not that the relationship would be much better but I understand better why it is important to confront myself with it, and ask for different perspectives about it, I at leat sense better what I need to let it speak to me.

As I was asked to join the project Jailsession in Berlin, my mind was full of questions, and I had a hard time to prepare myself for the encounter with the space.

This is a wonderful project, exploring creativity through different art in a place where freedom was taken away. You will hear more about the project it self soon.

First let’s explore the place together in a mixture of analogue and digital pictures.

The jail was build at the beginning of the last century, it was used until the 60es and is untouched since then.

After the Second World War, the jail kept juveniles who were active in the Hitler youth programs.

Here I can sense my misconception of freedom. Walking along those empty corridors.

I stood by that window for a very long time. There is big tree behind. So old already that It probably arrived there, before the building we are in.

I was watching the wind playing with the leaves, in the evening sunlight. I was imagining the sound of the wind, that I couldn’t hear inside, imagining the gentle touch of wind on my skin that I couldn't feel.

And I wondered, what your mind would think when you have to walk by this window every day, for 10 years, when you got your freedom stolen because of your political opinion.

Stolen moments of life? Unreachable hope? Unseen beauty?