Auch Deutsche unter den Opfern

Germany at the bottom, Germany at the top - and in the middle of it all: Stuckrad-Barre, with pen, paper and camera In 2001, he published "Deutsches Theater," the "photo novel of a society that is only able to come into its own in public and in role-playing" (FAZ). Now the sequel appears: reports, portraits, stories, monologues and dialogues - a moral portrait of our time.election campaigns, strikes, demonstrations, consumption, soccer, cinema, theater, music, literature, fashion, city life, cross-country trips. Politics, culture, society. With his method of participant observation, Stuckrad-Barre finds moments of truth in the midst of events that are intended to conceal precisely that. In the process, his gaze constantly switches between the outside and the inside, so that insight flashes up not only about all the other people, but also about him, the viewer. And so it comes into being.