Aliens'n Ruins

You can find the painted collage in the Gründerdistrict of Lübeck’s old town, where an aerial bomb left some Un- or Non-Places. The 3 x 6m mural is located in the passage between Mengstrasse and Alfstrasse. This piece about German ruin fetishism and the children of the Third Reich goes pretty well with C.D.Friedrich‘s anniversary 2024. Born in 1939, like my parents, they experienced the seamless transition from the Second World War to the Cold War, which shows its propagandistic traits especially in science fiction films. During reconstruction, Albert Speer's theory of the value of ruins was completely meaningless. It was more important to come back to the world and to travel.