Time Lane

At Ettersburg Castle, a former summer residence of the dukes of Weimar, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe staged Iphigenie auf Tauris and Friedrich Schiller completed his drama Maria Stuart. In 1937, an old ducal hunting lane once belonging to the castle was used by the concentration camp architects to lay out the course of the camp fence. The “Time Lane” addresses this physical adjacency and links Ettersburg Castle, as a symbol of Weimar Classicism, with Buchenwald, thus provoking thought on the proximity of culture and barbarianism.