Stefan Hanke

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Jeder neue Tag barg für Stefan Hanke (*1961, Regensburg) die Gefahr, einen Menschen weniger kennenlernen zu können, der eine der größten Katastrophen der Menschheitsgeschichte überlebt hat, die in Europa je stattgefunden hatten. Seit beinahe elf Jahren reist der Fotograf für sein Projekt Tausende von Kilometern, um die letzten Überlebenden der nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager zu treffen. Bei diesen intensiven Begegnungen entstanden Aufnahmen, die uns Geschichte(n) äußerst reflektiert näherbringen. So traf Hanke auf die polnische Schriftstellerin Zofia Posmysz am Morgen nach ihrer Verleihung des Bundesverdienstkreuzes in einer Baracke des ehemaligen Frauenlagers Auschwitz-Birkenau. Während er den Prager Pavel Stránský im Nürnberger Justizpalast aufnahm, wo sich zwischen 1945 und 1949 die führenden Vertreter des NS-Regimes vor Gericht verantworteten. Hankes Bilder sind keine Dokumentationen, sondern Interpretationen dieser spannenden Begegnungen.

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For Stefan Hanke ( 1961 in Regensburg), each new day harbored the danger of being able to meet one less person who had survived one of the greatest disasters in the history of humankind to occur in Europe. For his project, the photographer has been traveling thousands of kilometers in order to meet the last survivors of National Socialist concentration camps. Photographs were created during these intense encounters that relate stories and give us an understanding of history in a highly insightful way. Hanke met with the Polish writer Zofia Posmysz the morning after she received The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in a barrack at the former women's concentration camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau. And he took pictures of the Praguer Pavel Stránský in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, where the leading representatives of the Nazi regime stood trial between 1945 and 1949. Hanke's photographs do not have documentary character but are instead interpretations of these gripping encounters.

Exhibitions: Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände Nürnberg,15.7.-31.12.2016 Gedenkstätte Thersienstadt, Tschechien, April-July 2016 Gedenkstätte Auschwitz / Birkenau, Polen, January-February 2017 Kunst-und Gewerbeverein e.V. Regensburg, 25.3.-30.4.2017 further venues

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For Stefan Hanke (*1961 in Regensburg), each new day harbored the danger of being able to meet one less person who had survived one of the greatest disasters in the history of humankind to occur in Europe. For his project, the photographer has been traveling thousands of kilometers in order to meet the last survivors of National Socialist concentration camps. Photographs were created during these intense encounters that relate stories and give us an understanding of history in a highly insightful way. Hanke met with the Polish writer Zofia Posmysz the morning after she received The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in a barrack at the former women's concentration camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau. And he took pictures of the Praguer Pavel Stránský in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, where the leading representatives of the Nazi regime stood trial between 1945 and 1949. Hanke's photographs do not have documentary character but are instead interpretations of these gripping encounters.

Exhibitions: Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände Nürnberg,15.7.-31.12.2016 | Gedenkstätte Thersienstadt, Tschechien, 5.4.-7.7.2016 | Tschechisches Kulturministerium in Prag 26.1. -3.3.2017 | Kunst-und Gewerbeverein e.V. Regensburg, 25.3.-30.4.2017 | Gedenkstätte Auschwitz / Birkenau, Polen, 14.6.-12.9.2017 | further venues