Das Haus
Barbara Metselaar Berthold
After the war and various demolition raids, only one building is left standing at Potsdamer Platz directly next to the Wall: Haus Huth. Once a sophisticated wine establishment in Berlin’s entertainment quarter, it is now home to dreamers and drop-outs who don’t care for proximity to or detachment from urban infrastructure. Details in the staircase provide a glimpse of the building’s old splendour. This never-never- land property was suddenly thrown open when, after the Wall was opened, people suddenly started moving through the derelict wasteland.
Barbara Metselaar Berthold
Barbara Metselaar-Berthold, born 1951 in Pleißa, Saxony, is a photographer and film-maker. After graduating in photography from the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, she worked as a freelance photographer. Since 1989 she has also focused on the production of documentary films and video essays. In 2010 she won the prize for photographic artwork awarded by the funding programme for women artists of Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture.
Films by Barbara Metselaar Berthold (Selection)
Kuhfrass – laut und leise 2014 | Audienzen – Strategien der Selbstbehauptung (mit Tina Bara) 2007 | Insel – Gespräche vor blühender Landschaft 2005 | Frozen Margaritas 1999 | Wir wären so gerne Helden gewesen 1996 | Sonst knallt’s – Die Klappe 1994 | Topf und Deckel 1993 | Lenin von hinten 1991 | Staatsbeben 1989 / 90
