When Sigrid Sigurdsson and Ida Stein-Feinberg witnessed the trial from the auditorium for a day, she became aware of the pauses between the spoken words. Her impression was that the resonance in the room was charged with the disposition of the person and the content of what was being said and contained what could not be verbalized. This impression gave rise to the idea for the project. There is an original concept from 1964.

Thanks to the friendly support of the Fritz Bauer Institute, the recordings of the statements of twelve people could be used. The Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin made the elaboration possible through its generous support.

Since the result of this work is based on a sonic impression, the selection of the recordings was made subjectively on a sonic basis and does not claim to represent the entire court case.

Date: 13 to 15 November 2014
Concept: Sigrid Sigurdsson (1964); artistic design: Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson (2014)
Production: Centre for Literary and Cultural Studies
Location: HAU 1, Berlin The video installation consists of an arrangement of audio recordings of the first Frankfurt Auschwitz trial from 1963 to 1965 in Frankfurt am Main.
The essay Völkermord als Strafsache (Genocide as a Criminal Case) by Werner Renz is also available. In 2000 he appeared as an article in the Frankfurter Rundschau.
This work was first shown at the symposium „Exceptions of the Voice“ of the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin.

It has been part of the following exhibitions:

https://www.kunstmuseum-bonn.de/de/ausstellungen/sound-and-silence/

https://kunsthaushamburg.de/und-eine-welt-noch-hanne-darboven-im-kontext-26-april-bis-26-juni-2016/#