Erbgericht
- Publisher
- Hartmann Books
- Year
- 2024
- ISBN
- 978-3-96070-113-2
- Specifications
- paperback with flaps with open thread-sewn and enclosed text booklet
22.7 x 29.8 cm
128 pages
114 illustrations
Text by Eric Meier and Cora Waschke as well as a conversation by Jeannette Brabenetz with Andrea Grützner
German / English Concept: Johanna Flöter
Andrea Grützner
Design: Johanna Flöter, Hamburg
printed PVC-film cover
For a decade the artist Andrea Grützner (*1984 in Pirna) has been working on her photographic series in the country inn Erbgericht Polenz in eastern Saxony. The building, which has fascinated her since childhood, points in its name to a regional cultural history reaching back to the Middle Ages and concerning jurisdiction. Its interior holds a historically grown collage of materials and spaces, to which the locals' memories and emotions have attached since its opening in 1898. Grützner does not foreground the familiarly nostalgic and stereotypical of the provinces; instead she elaborately stages the deserted, labyrinthine interior with partly coloured flash before her analogue camera.