Paul Scraton

In the Pines

Inspired by his wife's family photographs from the 1930s and her memories of growing up on the Baltic coast, Paul Scraton set out to walk from L�beck to the Polish border on the island of Usedom, an area central to the mythology of a nation and bearing the heavy legacy of trauma. Exploring a world of socialist summer camps, Hanseatic trading towns long past their heyday and former fishing villages surrendered to tourism, Ghosts on the Shore unearths stories, folklore and contradictions of the coast, where politics, history and personal memory merge to create a nuanced portrait of place.

Ghosts on the Shore

Berlin: long-celebrated as a city of artists and outcasts, but also a city of teachers and construction workers. A place of tourists and refugees, and the memories of those exiled and expelled. A city named after marshland; if you dig a hole, you'll soon hit sand. The stories of Berlin are the stories Built on Sand. A wooden town, laid waste by the Thirty Years War that became the metropolis by the Spree that spread out and swallowed villages whole. The city of Rosa Luxemburg and Joseph Roth, of student movements and punks on both sides of the Wall. A place still bearing the scars of National Socialism and the divided city that emerged from the wreckage of war. Built on Sand. centres on the personal geographies of place, and how memory and history live on in the individual and collective imagination. Stories of landscapes and a city both real and imagined; stories of exile and trauma, mythology and folklore; of how the past shapes and distorts our understanding of the present in an age of individualism, gentrification and the rising threat of nativism and far-right populism. Together, these stories offer a portrait of a city three decades on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the legacy of that history in a city that was once divided but remains fractured and fragmented.

Built on Sand

Mauerweg

David Wagner

Anneke Lubkowitz

Nadire Y. Biskin

Anna Hetzer

Jan Wilm

Anna Fedorova

Christian Wöllecke

Jonas Rump

Lukas Valtin

Oliver Heidkamp

Ron Winkler

Carla Kaspari

Jenny Schäfer

Lea Sauer

Hannah Beckmann

Olav Amende

Marie-Louise Monrad Møller

Joceline Ziegler

Gehen, das heißt auch: flanieren, spazieren, sich treiben lassen, Umwege nehmen. Im Gehen zeigt sich die Kartographie unseres raumbezogenen Möglichkeitssinns. Als eine von den Umständen bedingte Praxis wird es im Gehen aber auch immer dort reizvoll, ja, gefährlich, wo den Gehenden Grenzen gesetzt werden: Wo Werbung, Straßenschilder, Mauern und Zäune unsere Gehgeschwindigkeiten bestimmen. Wo inmitten der Architektur unsere Emotionen geformt werden. Und wo zwischen den Rastern der Norm – von der Bordsteinkante bis zur Skyline – die Stadt aufscheint.

Magazin für Literatur und Kultur

metamorphosen 27 – Gehen

Um ganz Berlin

Am Rand

Paul Scraton

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