CHILDHOOD PLACE. Ahrenshoop

Peter Paul Lorenz is searching for traces with his current project. He combines new photographs of Fischland with memories of his childhood in the former GDR (East-Germany). "Every summer we spent a few weeks on holiday in Ahrenshoop, the former ´seaside resort of the GDR's creative artists´. We drove two hours with the Trabant (typical car of the GDR) from Schwerin over the country roads to Fischland (Baltic Sea). Holiday accommodations at the Baltic Sea were rare and difficult to get, but we were lucky that friends of my parents arranged for us to stay in their big parental home. Every smallest room was rented: Chicken stable, cowshed, attic and cellar room. For many years we stayed in a chamber under the thatched roof. There was a summer kitchen in the courtyard. The good-humoured 'grandma' wore an smock apron dress and cooked and baked. The 'grandpa' puffed his tobacco pipe and grumbled: 'The holidaymakers are taking away my peace and quiet'. The best place was on the lonely west beach and we could see Denmark in good weather, out of reach for us." Peter Paul Lorenz questions the idealisation of his own childhood place with his project. He searches for images as they used to be, although he knows that it is no more like that. ***Exhibition: In small rooms, the photographs are pinned directly to the wall as DIN A4 prints. In larger rooms prints are presented in 50x70cm glass frames. 27 photographs, Edition: 10+2