Hear Professor Michael W. Jennings (L.2008.21)

The light boxes themselves were prepared for a retrospective of the work of Stih and Schnock at the Jewish Museum in New York. They are somewhat larger versions of the maps that mark the entrance to the installation in Berlin. The light boxes not only document the position of the various elements of the installation but also include the texts on which it was based: the careful recording of the Nazi laws that gradually stripped Jewish citizens of their legal rights—and, finally, of their humanity. We can’t imagine a more appropriate entrance to a Department of German.