A Deconstructivist Photo-Collage + Montage by Doris Schoettler-Boll:
"Durchqueren - fuer Buechner und Kleist"
('Traversing' - for Buechner and Kleist)
 

Above, you find three glimpses of the photo-collage + montage created by the well-known artist Doris Schoettler-Boll.
The work was commissioned by Werner Ruhnau, the renowned architect responsible for re-shaping the Grillo Theater.

The stucco relief seen on the first photo was left intact as a historical trace and thus integrated into Doris Schoettler-Boll's work.
To the left of this relief, Schoettler-Boll's work shows ashes. Blacks and greys dominate. Flashing up, we see the color of flames.
As the artist has been traversing time - or should I say, modern German history, from rebellious Buechner and despairing Kleist
to the ovens of Auschwitz - the eyes of the theater goer will traverse the space above the doors through which he will enter the 
auditorium. A poet, writing about this work, compared it to the fiery writing Nebukadnezar saw on the walls of his palace.

The act of removal shows how much of an affront this work was in the up-and-coming cultural capital of Europe. And this both in 
view of its political & its aesthetic qualities (the work is visible as a fragmented whole, demanding a 'look' that jumps rather than 
immersing itself, quietly and concentratedly, into the work; frames and  rectangular, regular outlines have been largely abandoned; 
there is a preference for dynamic diagonal lines: they seem to point to cross-connections, between 'then' and 'now', 'here' and 
'there', recent and not so recent periods, contemporary and classical theater).
 

Notizen (on the work, by D. Schoettler-Boll)                                                                the poem (in German)