Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank hatte einen rot-weiß-karierten Einband. Ihr Tagebuch schrieb sie, während sie im Hinterhaus eingeschlossen und versteckt vor den Nationalsozialisten lebte. Heute leben wir in Freiheit, können... 

Encounter - Yesterday and Today

Light installation in cafeteria wall niche made of printed and backlit glass combined with milled and printed sheet metal. Anne Frank's diary had a red and white checkered cover. She wrote her...

...diary while living locked up and hidden from the National Socialists in the back of the house. Today we live in freedom, we can live out our friendships and we take for granted the colourful, culturally diverse and democratic coexistence. In the canteen of the Anne Frank School, the mural "Encounter - Yesterday and Today" shows on two levels the simultaneity of colourful freedom and the unfree life, that which is hidden in the diary.
The foreground groups many colourful, vertical stripes next to each other on an equal footing. An image of the lively, colourful student body, with its different personalities-
Between the groups of lines, vistas open up onto the back level. Here, the central legacy of Anne Frank is depicted in the form of the diary pattern. The backlighting of the glass surfaces creates the impression of a room behind. Here the fullness of the diary, its descriptions of Anne Frank's life, is illuminated and figuratively illuminated.        

Realisation 2022
Regina Kochs, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022
Construction/assembly: Picos Grafik, Rheinbreitbach          
Photos: © Carsten Selak, Alzey