1933 in Berlin. Early Nazi terror in the centre of society.
From 29 September to 11 October 2024, the exhibition NACHHALL by Berlin-based sound artist Tobias Euler will take place in the Kleiner Wasserspeicher in Prenzlauer Berg.
This project aims to commemorate the victims of National Socialist terror, which was institutionalized immediately after the end of the Weimar Republic, even in the middle of Berlin's urban society. One of the first concentration camps was located in 1933 in a building that no longer exists on the Wasserturm site in Prenzlauer Berg.*
NACHHALL
An accordion, fragmented, playing broken pieces of sound through grids. People are missing. Footsteps of boots banging. Harbingers of the extermination industry.
Exhibition 29.9. - 11.10.2024
Kleiner Wasserspeicher | Diedenhofer Str. 20, 10405 Berlin
The exhibition is open daily from 3-8 pm, except Mondays, admission is free. Access for wheel chair users at ground level.
Sunday, 29.09.2024 4 pm Opening of the walk-in sound
installation by Tobias Euler in the
Kleiner Wasserspeicher, admission free
Saturday, 05.10.2024 2 pm guided tour with historian
Niko Rollmann through Prenzlauer Berg to
the traces of Nazi terror, starting point
corner Schönhauser Allee/Saarbrücker
Straße, ends approx. 3 pm in the
exhibition at Kleiner Wasserspeicher,
ticket bookable via www.unter-berlin.de
Sunday, 06.10.2024 5 pm Lecture with historian
Niko Rollmann on the beginnings of Nazi
terror in Berlin, admission 5 euros
Freitag, 11.10.2024 7 pm Finissage with live performance by
Tobias Euler, admission free
* Cp. Irene Mayer von Götz (2008): Terror im Zentrum der Macht. Metropol Verlag, Berlin.
Floor plan of small
water reservoir (source: Förderband e.V.)
With the disappearance of the generation of contemporary witnesses, the forms of expression of commemorative culture are changing. The use of sound art could expand conventional ways of remembering. Tobias Euler has created a sound space in the vault of the former water reservoir that invites visitors to engage in an associative dialogue with a chapter of Berlin's history that is in danger of being forgotten. To this end, the artist has developed an installation of digitally controlled sound objects made from fragments of accordions, an instrument that played a key role in the traditional music of various groups persecuted by the Nazis. Sequences of historical sound material can be heard, which are combined with everyday noises from the 1930s and the sound of accordion machines to create a collage of language and music. Due to the reverberation times in the vaulted architecture, sound reflections become part of the composition.
© Studio Euler
Tobias Euler studied Fine Arts at the Bauhaus University Weimar. His work operates at the interface between sculpture, music and robotics. His work centres on digitally controlled, interacting sound objects, which he arranges in space to create walk-in installations. In addition to his individual works, he has developed interactive scenographic sound installations for the theatre group "Showcase Beat Le Mot", among others. Together with theatre maker Veit Sprenger and composer Thies Mynther, he created the interdisciplinary project "Moon Machine", an installation with robotic orchestration based on the American composer "Moondog", with an exhibition at Kunsthalle Münster, shows at Kampnagel Hamburg, at Ars Electronica Linz 2020 and at Mousonturm Frankfurt/Main 2021. In 2022, Tobias Euler presented his sound installation "Sounds of Hyphae and Mycelia" in an elaborate solo exhibition at the Parochialkirche in Berlin, funded by the BBK Neustart Kultur programme. In 2023, the artist received the "Serious Music and Sound Art" working grant from the Berlin Senate Department.
Historian Niko Rollmann works in adult political education, as a city guide and as a writer. He specialises in underground architecture, the history of Berlin and homelessness. His publications include volumes such as "Die Stadt unter der Stadt" and "Unter Berlin" (Jaron Verlag). In 2004, he was one of the co-founders of the "unter-berlin" association, of which he is the first chairman. He regularly leads groups on historical tours through Prenzlauer Berg and other parts of Berlin.
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The programme is being organised in cooperation with historian Niko Rollmann and the unter-berlin e.V. association.
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Supported by:
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