“What were my parents doing when they were as old as my son is today? What made them what they are today?” Frederike Helwig's project Kriegskinder is a document of the children who grew up during World War II, now in their eighth decade of life. They look back, some of them speaking for the first time ever about what marked them: bombs, fleeing, fear, hunger, illness, death, missing fathers, overwhelmed mothers—as well as the speechlessness of the post-war era, when memories of the war and its intergenerational consequences were supposed to be forgotten.
We worked with Frederike to translate her intimate and uncomfortable oral-history project into many forms; a book in English and German, three exhibitions across Germany, and a website.
Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2017
104pp, 45 colour photographs, 195 × 238mm
Hardcover with thermo-reactive blind embossing
With a foreword by Alexandra Senfft and interviews by Anne Waak
Texts in English and German
ISBN 978-3-7757-4393-8
Book Design, Exhibition Design, Web Design
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