The exhibition "A Village 1950-2022" is a long-term project by three photographers. The project focuses on the Thuringian village of Berka and yet points far beyond its borders. In the 1950s, Ludwig Schirmer, the father of photographer Ute Mahler, was a master miller in Berka. As a self-taught photographer, he began to document everyday life, festivals and his own life.
Without knowing his father-in-law's pictures, Ute's husband Werner Mahler decided to photograph his diploma thesis in Berka in 1977. A good 20 years later, in 1998, the magazine Der Stern asked him for an update, but it was never published. Ute Mahler photographed Berka in 2021/22. As a family follow-up, she created a personal work about a home village.
All four works with over 120 photographs pose questions about continuities and changes, about home, childhood, about moving away and coming back, old and new, the familiar and the unfamiliar.
Further information can be found at: A Village 1950-2022: Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler and Ludwig Schirmer | Akademie der Künste, Berlin
As part of the EMOP Berlin - European Month of Photography 2025
In cooperation with the agency OSTKREUZ
With the kind support of the Gesellschaft der Freunde der Akademie der Künste
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