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The photographical images were taken in the Steintor-Variety theatre, in the former Walhalla-Variety, in my hometown Halle/Saale in Germany. After 20 years I wanted to return to this place, where my mom took me when I was little girl and which has formed me somehow. I felt the need to re-view my past with the eyes of now. Surely, I could have visited the block of flats where I grew up, but besides the fact that the house was demolished, it would not have been the same, because the theatre experience as a "accompanier" was truly unique and magical. The colours and the glitter fabrics, which inspired dreams, were not out there in the city which is still famous for its fog, the industrial clouds and the grey cement.

The five compositions show the different places of the theatre in a completely human absence and from my point of view, how I remembered: the corridors behind the scene with its colourful and ripped off posters with autographs; the canteen with its heavy metallic doors and door handles from a child's point of view; the make-up room with its dense and colourful varnish on the windowsills; a little hidden stage with its working signs on the floor; the audience parquet with its little typical bistro tables and the stage itself, well-known because of its huge dimensions. The photographical composition of the big stage reminds in its arrangement religious icons in a church. As if it would be a memory of an altar.