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Press Release – Press Release – Press Release – Press Release – Press Release Ladies and Gentlemen, In Kreuzberg, ''The look of the other'', the subject of the 5th European Month of Photography, prompts a special resonance and a special contribution: ''In the Blink of an Eye. Standstill and Movement. Photography from Kreuzberg'' is the name of the photo exhibition which shows the unknown and the unusual from the district which used to be at the edge of Berlin. Glimpses of normal and alternative ways of life, memories in black and white. Much of it inspired the State Republic, some of it vanished. The occupation of the Rauch-Haus in 1971 became an example for self-administered youth- and cultural centres, the Festival of May 1st at the Mariannenplatz was the blueprint for street festivals, as were the violent demonstrations and house battles, for provoking the ruling system. A field of social experiment. A wasteland of rubble after the riots on May 1st 1987. And before that, the everyday in which the tinder was ready. Not only the ''rented barracks'' (tenements) were about to be demolished. In the supposed quiet before the storm, the pictures from the 70s were so different from those of the 80s. The West Berlin of the 1970s and ’80s – Kreuzberg, the Wall, dereliction. Many of those who lived here had no other choice. Low rents in the ruins of war, the struggle for survival, brief moments of happiness and permanent breakdowns. Old age in poverty, foreigners, children and neighbourhoods. A world in the rubble of the past, nothing moving. New construction, such as the controversial NKZ, old buildings had to give way. Without raising objection. Resistance against the wrecking ball began. The photographers from Great Britain, Sweden and the Germans who had come here from the old States moved in this terrain. They were Others, and it was Others who looked back at them. Curiosity, disbelief, the alien. The tension was perceptible on both sides. Taken long before the Kreuzberg mythos began, before Kreuzberg became the in-district, these photographs are the legacy of a living space overshadowed by a perpetual grey haze. The colours on the façades came later; the tourists too. An exhibition that above all shows people who wanted to show Kreuzberg, not their back, but their face. Which remains – as the blink of an eye. With photography by Peter Gormanns, Michael Hughes, Ann-Christine Jansson, Wolfgang Krolow, Horst Luedeking, Toni Nemes and Siebrand Rehberg – curated by Ellen Röhner and Erik Steffen We look forward to seeing you at the opening on November 3rd at 5 PM. Hans Panhoff, District Councillor, will greet the visitors. Introduction: Erik Steffen Music: Matt Grau, garbage-artist, musician and DJ, came to West-Berlin in 1983. Since 1987 living in Kreuzberg, at first in the shadow of the Wall, now without. Many projects from "Bündnis für Stadl" to "Kreuzberger Kasperletheater" with Frank-Kirk Ehm-Marks. Almost famous as guitarist of the SocialBeat-Icon Hadayatullah Hübsch. Besides bizarre own productions he presents a repertoire from Ton Steine Scherben to Einstürzende Neubauten. Venue: The Browse Gallery, Marheinekeplatz 15, 10961 Berlin U 7 Gneisenaustraße, Bus 140 und 248 Opening times: Mon.–Fr. 8.00 AM – 8.00 PM , Sat. 8.00 AM – 6.00 PM The Exhibition Project ''AugenBlicke. Stillstand und Bewegung. Fotografien aus Kreuzberg'' is a cooperation between the Local Museum of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg with the Gesellschaft für interregionalen Kulturaustausch e. V. and the Community Impulse Berlin e. V. An Exhibition within the framework of the 5th European Month of Photography 2012 Sponsored by the Bezirkskulturfonds Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Events to accompany the Exhibition In the Blink of an Eye. Standstill and Movement. Photography from Kreuzberg Thursday, 15 th November 2012, 8:00 PM SO 36 – Our life was more than a picture-book Emotions and hardness, awakening and crash in and around the Oranienstrasse in Kreuzberg from 1971 to 1989. A multimedial amok trip. Music, readings, projection from MDK to ENDART. Artists, house occupiers and normals. Contemporary witnesses incl. H.-J.-Hillmann, Volker Hauptvogel, Klaus Theuerkauf und Frank-Kirk Ehm-Marks. Venue: Kreuzberg Museum, Adalbertstr. 95A, 10999 Berlin Thursday, 29. November 2012, 20:00 Uhr Standstill and movement. People in Kreuzberg – Photography from the 70s and 80s The Berlin Story Publishers presents the book ''Standstill and movement. People in Kreuzberg'' with works by seven photographers, edited by Ellen Röhner and Erik Steffen: Extreme momentary images of a Berlin District that at the time was neither mythos nor 'in'. A search for traces of faded memories, which people and places left behind in pictures. An event within the framework of Stadt Land Buch 2012, the German Publishers and Booksellers Association Venue: Kreuzberg Museum, Adalbertstr. 95A, 10999 Berlin The book ''Standstill and movement. People in Kreuzberg – Photography from the 70s and 80s'' appears to accompany the Exhibition, edited by Ellen Röhner and Erik Steffen Berlin: The Berlin Story Publishers, 2012, 19,80 € 128 pages, German and English ISBN 978-3-86368-091-6