Hatje Cantz Verlag
Short Messages
Short messages from the past – the tiles of Sacrow's Heilandskirche church bear numerous messages from 150 years of German history. Who wrote “Carpe Diem” here a few years before the end of World War II? Who carved “We stood here many a night and no one thought of us”?
The book Short Messages offers a detailed and charming chronicle of these inscriptions. Written in German, English, or Russian, in Sütterlin or Latin script, they range from everyday scribbles to historical milestones from the Second World War or the division of Germany.
In the original tile format (15 x 15 cm), the book invites readers to decipher this unique historical narrative for themselves.
Edited by Ulrike Willingmann, Dietmar Peikert, and Lars Wiedemann. With 146 photographs by Lars Wiedemann and texts by Angelika Kaltenbach and Hanns Zischler.
