As part of our event series FOTO SOIREE, journalist Margit Miosga, rbb-Kulturradio, discusses with photographer Nelly Rau-Häring the background of our current exhibition OST/WEST BERLIN. The evening offers insights into the photographer’s working methods and illuminates life in the divided and united city.
Margit Miosga is an author, radio journalist and editor. Since 1979 she has been working in Berlin, where she mainly works for radio, among others in the editorial department of the ZEITPUNKTE of rbb-Kulturradios.
Nelly Rau- Häring has lived in Berlin since 1965. After her training at the Lette Verein, she worked as a press and advertising photographer and documented life in East and West Berlin from the mid 1960s to the 2000s.
Admission free
The FOTO SOIREE takes place within the project XB-Lab. Supported by the model programm “Utopolis – Soziokultur im Quartier” as part of the interdepartmental strategy “Socially Integrative City – Strengthening Neighbourhoods, Together in the Quarter” of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Building and Home Affairs and the Commissioner for Culture and Media.
Foto © Nelly Rau-Häring.