Peter Coeln, Tarek Leitner
Hilde & Gretl (Special Edition)
Peter Coeln, Tarek Leitner
140 Pages
ISBN 978-3-7106-0213-9
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The photographer, gallery owner (OstLicht & Photography Museum WestLicht) and collector Peter Coeln and the author Tarek Leitner must have been crazy. One buys an old house in the Waldviertel district of Lower Austria, and the other helps him decide what is to be kept and what is not. What the two find are the lives of the two cousins Hilde and Gretl, who lived together in that house for many decades.
Two lives whose everyday lives, and not whose extraordinary things, spread out before us: in thousands and thousands of things, in letters, notes, photographs and documents. The authors come to the conclusion that it is everyday life that kills us in the end. In this respect, it is worth taking a closer look at this strange everyday life, which in some ways could also be ours.
This Special Edition comes with one original object (postcard or photograph) from Hilde & Gretl's lives.