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my 72
The 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. On 4 September, my parents, my sister and I had tickets for the athletics events in the big Olympic stadium. I had never experienced anything like it before and I was absolutely thrilled. When Ulrike Meyfarth won the gold medal in the high jump that evening, I knew it was the best day of my life.
A few hours later, in the early hours of 5 September, terrorists attacked the Israeli Olympic team, murdering two athletes and taking nine others hostage. After hours of negotiations, a failed rescue attempt took place at Fürstenfeldbruck airport on the night of 6 September, in which all nine Israeli hostages, a policeman and five of the eight hostage-takers were killed. I was paralysed by these events and full of sympathy for the Israeli athletes.
These two images - the iconic Olympic stadium and the haunted airfield in Fürstenfeldbruck - immediately come to mind when I think of the Munich Olympics.
How close euphoria and horror can be ...
Shotdate | -location:
2025
Feb.
02
| Muenchen (DE)
Filmtype:
Polaroid i-Type B&W
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The Olympic Stadium:
Nikon + Polaroid Lab; photos from summer 2023
Airfield:
movie screen / Polaroid I-2 on tripod; january/february 2025
An emulsion lift on watercolour paper.
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