A place of remembrance for the victims of the concentration camp sub-camp Echterdingen-Bernhausen (near the airport Stuttgart)
2 Wall panels: white concrete, l 8 x h 2 x d 0.45 m and l 28 x h 2 x d 0.45 m, acoustic installation, 2 axis
2009/2010
Photo: Rolf Sturm
Paths of Remembrance
[1-2] "The art work has the name 'Path of Remembrance'. Placed next to the main entrance to the US Army Airfield, two white walls create a symbolic entrance atmosphere. They change the space of this area into a part real, part imaginary memorial – real, because it confronts us with the concrete material of life and death; imaginary, because the military use of this space forbids free access to it. The paths and walls created by the artist Dagmar Pachtner focus the visitors attention on both of these places in which the past is still present to this very day: to the large, high, unheated hangar, in those days filled with bunk beds and circled by barbed-wire and watchtowers, today used by the US Army; and to the area used as a mass grave which, because of Jewish rite, has been turned into a cemetery."
Stefanie Endlich. Quoted from the opening and dedication speech on June 8th 2010.