Memorial for the victims of the detention facility Prenzlauer Allee of the Soviet secrete service NKWD
and the GDR Ministry of State Security (Stasi) at Prenzlauer Allee.
Acrylic band with engraved questions about detention and torture,
directed into the past and present, Berlin 2005
who disappeared at the cellar ?
who closed the iron door?
how cold was the wall ?
what felt the shorn head ?
what lit the naked bulb ?
what was the weight of uncertainty ?
where sat the angst ?
how passed a day ?
how much silence could bear the ear ?
what said the whispered words ?
when did a poem help ?
where did the first strike hit ?
how did they cover their wounds ?
who heard the screaming at night ?
who noticed the shadows behind the windows ?
who saw the bricked cellar-hatches ?
why ?
who searched for the disappeared ?
how big was the fear from one‘s own words ?
how do we know ?
when was the body filled with apathy ?
how was the taste of a sip form the bowl ?
when came the hunger ?
where was the places of the toilet bucket ?
what was the value of a crumb of sugar ?
how long was a day without light ?
how many nails sticked out of the plank bed ?
how did they find sleep ?
shots ?
who survived ?
whereto then ?
when did the men weep ?
when did the brooding stop ?
hope for what ?
what did they know?
from where do we know ?
who wants to know ?