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Saturday, 5 April 2008

Back to Beelitz

Last Thursday I made a second visit to the Beelitz sanatorium. I read in the papers that a somewhat trustworthy speculant has recently (finally) bought the sanatorium complex. It's a firm that has previously successfully renovated many properties in Potsdam. Until now, all potential Beelitz developers had gone bankrupt before having gotten anything done. Here's hoping that the old buildings will be restored with respect and love and put to new use in a constructive way that will be rewarding for the whole community.

Since the area will be off-limits once the restauration begins at some point in the future, I wanted to make sure that the first time I went there wasn't the last time. There were some buildings that we didn't visit back in January, and though we explored the surgery building, we somehow managed to miss the perhaps most interesting part - the operation rooms.



The hallway that leads to the operation rooms.

One of the most popular photoshooting locations in the complex ...

Light



Care was taken to ensure plenty of natural light in the surgery halls, with glass roofs and big windows facing north.

The old graffiti is peeling off the tiles

Green, pink, blue, pink

Blue corner

Pig



I refuse to believe that this graffiti is anything but a cubist pig. His eyes are two wall sockets. (There was a guy outside here doing something, but I think he didn't see me.)

The hallway again.

Cabinets

Blue OP

Penis room.



Some visitor was a little obsessed. The cracks in the paint on the wall outside almost look like flowers, in the same kind of random pattern as the penises inside. Beautiful!

Blue OP part two.



This time I brought with me a slightly more professional camera that I got to borrow for a work project, because it has a blissfully wide angle compared to my own little Olympus.

Another of the top ten most popular photoshoot locations here



Maybe I, too, should have made a self portrait seated on that sofa.

The staircase around the elevator shaft



The elevator is stuck on the top floor. Maybe now it won't fall down before they get around to renovating the surgery building, after all. I'm a bit curious how exactly they'll dismantle it.

The elevator shaft



Don't put your head inside it if you go there - just in case ...

Wednesday, 30 January 2008

Video

In desperation about my camera's narrow angle, I also made some video footage of the sanatorium. I compiled it here and set it to the tunes of Би-2 - Кого ты ждешь ("The one you're waiting for"). I'm sorry if the music makes it a bit cheesy, but I didn't record any sound on the films, and it was a bit boring when it was all quiet.

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