Halle-Silberhoehe

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In the GDR, new housing developments were systematically built that were intended to provide not only living space but also a socialist alternative to the “bourgeois” old towns. What was popular back then – also because of the clean district heating and hot running water – has now often degenerated into a problem-laden peripheral area. One of these is Silberhöhe in Halle (Saale). Robert Schlotter visited Silberhöhe between 2005 and 2007, photographed streets and made portraits of its residents. The black and white of his photos reinforces the structural desolation of the prefabricated buildings, and the people who live here are in stark contrast to this. In their eyes – here Schlotter approaches Helga Paris’ Halle series – the will to persevere is palpable. Silberhöhe has also become home to many people.