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three camp areas - "Main camp," "Youth camp," and "Siemens
camp" - form the central parts of the memorial and will be expressed
spatially by marking the edges with trees.
In the former main camp, after a large part of the buildings which were
built after 1945 and the vegetation have been removed, volunteers will excavate
the foundations of the concentration camp barracks. Lasting for over twenty
years, the excavation will trace the floor plan of the camp by means of
the resulting ground relief and the remains of foundations which might be
uncovered. At the beginning of the work, a pile of cinders will be unloaded
which will be used to cover the areas of ground where excavation work has
been completed. As the excavation work progresses, the pile of cinders will
shrink until, when work is finished, it totally disappears.
Since the traces of the former youth camp are totally obliterated, a different
form of memorial is planned for this area: a field of flowers reminds of
the fate of the victims with its fragile, temporary beauty and at the same
time indicates the extent of the former camp. The banks of earth which were
put up by the Red Army have been preserved to show traces of their use of
the area. The site of the former "extermination camp" will be
freed of this surface, and additional excavations will search for remains
of the Nazi period.
1. Prize, Landscape Competition | Ravensbrück | 1998
Philipp Oswalt (Architect), Stefan Tischer (Landscapearchitect)  Homepage,
Stefanie Brauer (Historian)
With: Achim Bode, Christian Henke, Clemens Lutz, Stephan Renner, Ines Rudolph
Model: Petra Schrever
Photography: Jacob v. Dohnanyi
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