TXL. Content.
TXL. Content.
TXL.
TXL is a long-term project that started in 2010 and ended at November 8th, 2020 with the closing of TXL.
When I started taking snapshots at Berlin's Tegel Airport (TXL) in 2010, I limited myself to the smartphone with always the same app and filter and only at TXL Airport.
At that time I expected a short series, after all the reopening of the airport BER was planned for 2012, which would have been the end for Tegel at the same time.
The last days and months of TXL have already lasted many years and I just continued the series.
An airport is not only a traffic junction, it is also a social microcosm. One finds all social classes, different origins, religion, professions. The rich and the poor, those who stay and those who leave. The seekers and the finders.
As an observer, one is captivated by the hectic pace and the quiet moments and moves between business bustle, professional calm and is surrounded by the joy of reunion and the pain of farewell.
TXL Galleries.
TXL Galleries.
Galleries.
The communication, the attempt, the failure. Between fulfillment, missed chances and completely different solutions to find someone to talk to.
The last flight of AirBerlin with the number AB6210 took place on 27.10.2017.
The Airbus A320 from Munich to Berlin Tegel landed in the evening in front of a backdrop of hundreds of people bidding farewell to the company that carried Berlin's name around the world and that had been associated with the city and its people for decades.
The melancholy mood of the spectators ended as the Airberlin employees marched through the airport and celebrated themselves one last time.