I recently discovered old film rolls and notebooks of mine from the early 1980s, containing poetry and collections of short stories, from East German authors such as Reiner Kunze, Peter Huchel and Sarah Kirsch, which I was able to borrow only for a limited time and whose content I had copied by hand. The title for this series is an homage to Reiner Kunze's book ‘Die wunderbaren Jahre’ ,a series of short stories describing various aspects of everyday life for young people in East Germany. I was brought up in a parallel universe, a reality alien to western democracy.

Photographs of deconstructed film rolls, containing my hand copied writing from forbidden East German authors,
image size 60X60 cm, Giclée ink jet print on INNOVA White Matte 285g