the series of pictures shows a subway that no longer exists and was once part of berlin's alexanderplatz underground station. the subway was located under alexanderstraße and was
closed/filled in when the redevelopment of the alexanderplatz area began in the 2010s.
it was clearly not worth preserving - not a particularly important subway, not an architectural masterpiece, not a historically valuable object and not a place that would be missed ... but
it was there - it existed, had a function, a purpose and a task. had ... a past. now it's gone - and most likely forever. forgotten and buried.
what events it ‘experienced’, what actions and incidents it ‘saw’, the feelings and actions of the people who used it, who worked there, laughed, cried and cleaned
it, who built it ... all history ... all veiled and forgotten somewhere in the mists of the past.
what remains are countless questions that can never be answered with certainty. who was the last person to throw rubbish in the bin? who put the newspaper in the broken lamp? who was the
last person to take a look in the box in front of the flower shop - and was the box closed again afterwards? who was the last person to sit on the steps? who was the last person to touch the walls? what was the last thing advertised there - and who put up the posters? which of the doors was the last to be opened, which was the last to be locked? but what we do know: there is an answer to all these questions ... a correct answer ... but we will never know ... it´s lost in the matrix.
rest in peace, dear subway … love and kisses ...