Weites Feld
Bachelor diploma in Knowledge Visualization, 2025
The work “Weites Feld” (Wide Field) explores the quiet culture of cemeteries through drawings from various municipal and church cemeteries in the DACH countries. It documents the human traces found in cemeteries, demonstratively juxtaposing the findings and observations, thereby creating new perspectives and narratives. In doing so, it takes a careful look at the simultaneity of life and death, beauty and sadness, order and chaos.
Germany has more than 32,000 cemeteries. What do we do there? What do we leave behind? They are public spaces, maintained and brought to life and at the same time abandoned and forgotten. The project portrays cemeteries as a cultural practice and takes up the complex debate about their relevance, use, and design. It shows the diversity of individual expressions of human needs for location and creation.
The result is a story about closeness and transience, consisting of 60+ illustrations and a book prototype in hot pink.
The book is currently exhibited at the
Mentoring and support: Karin Seiler, Simone Stolz, Ulrike Meyer Stump, Friedrich-W. Graf
Marker/Fineliner/Colored pencil
- Calla lily in the trash, forest cemetery Lauheide, Münster
- Stickers on gravestones, various cemeteries
- Watering cans, Hallesches Tor cemeteries, Berlin
- Book prototype
- Flowers, Eichbühl cemetery, Zurich
- Finds, Hallesches Tor cemeteries, Berlin
- Finds, Waldfriedhof Lauheide