Design Chosen For Holocaust Gay Memorial

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/01/012606holocaust.htm

A jury has chosen a design for a memorial in Berlin to gays persecuted and killed under the Nazis, a monument that will complement the nearby memorial to the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust, the city government said Thursday.

The design by Danish-born Michael Elmgreen and Norwegian native Ingar Dragset is shaped as a gray concrete slab with a window, allowing visitors to view a film projection inside. A city government statement said the intention is to build the memorial "as soon as possible," although it gave no date.
The memorial, whose construction was approved by the German parliament in December 2003, will stand on the edge of the capital's Tiergarten park, opposite the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.

Its design echoes that of U.S. architect Peter Eisenman's memorial to the Nazis' Jewish victims, a vast field of more than 2,700 slabs that was inaugurated last May. The design was picked Wednesday from 17 proposed designs, and the federal government has pledged up to $552,000 US to fund construction.

[xchrom]

1. very cool and about time.

it's very important to document for the public any history of gay folk -- and this deadly episode in particular.