Publisher Gerhard Steidl on the question of the project of the emerging art quarter in the city center of Göttingen and what drives him

“It makes me angry to see how cities are being destroyed or have been destroyed. High rents and the one-sided fixation on trade have done a lot of damage. This is a stupid concept, you find the same thing on shopping streets and in malls worldwide. Totally uniform, the diversity that arises from human creativity has been lost.”

– Gerhard Steidl, owner and managing director of the Göttingen Steidl publishing house (works by Joseph Beuys, Günter Grass, Karl Lagerfeld), in “It makes me angry when cities are destroyed” in Handelsblatt, May 31, 2021, page 26, No. 102

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