Herlinde Koelbl raises many questions, such as the relationship between power and powerlessness. About ethics and morality of human action in the face of killing. About killing to save life, one's own and that of others. About the value of a human life, given by God in its individual particularity. This, too, is reflected in the exhibition in many portraits that bring home the individuality, dignity and preciousness of the gift of life. Death and life. Wilhelm Warning
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Registration for the event is not necessary.
Programme of the event:
This is how the photographer, documentary filmmaker and author
author Herlinde Koelbl begins her essay on a project
that she called "targets". Around the world, she photographed
the shooting targets of soldiers who learn to kill as efficiently
as efficiently as possible, extinguishing lives with one shot.
with one shot. Torn cardboard comrades, tinny heads,
plastic bodies. Not gaming, but practice for the
emergency. Dress rehearsal for war. Human figures
as shooting targets. The exhibition shows the opponent as a
threatening object in human form, stripped of all individuality
individuality, just as the uniformity of the uniformed soldiers
uniformity deprives the uniformed soldiers of the fullness of their personality.
personality from the uniformed soldiers. Photos do not judge, but rather
but impressively condense image after image.
Herlinde Koelbl thus raises many questions: for example
about the relationship between power and powerlessness. About
ethics and morality of human behaviour in
in the face of killing. About killing in order to save lives, one's own
own and that of others. About the value of a human life
human life, given by God in its individual
individual uniqueness. This is also reflected in the exhibition
in many portraits that bring home the individuality, dignity
and preciousness of the gift of life.
Death and life.
Wilhelm Warning