The forests of Wünsdorf, some 60 km away from the former Berlin iron curtain a "Forbidden City" as locals call it. Hidden in dense green the former soviet military zone was a top secret tabu zone, forbidden for Eastern Germans to get close to it as well as for the Soviet citizens (at peek time up to 75.000) to interact with the outside world. This military basis was the gatekeeper of the Cold War, the guardian of the iron curtain, or looking at it from the Soviet perspective - a peace keeping mission, anytime ready to launch a third world war, spreading the red ideology everywhere into Europe. While being a child my mother was working there as piano teacher for children. In my childhood memories the town remained a wonderful green, peaceful and tidy place. Several decades later I decided to put it (or what remained from it) in scene through my lens, taking my mum along as model and contemporary witness.
