Fotografie
17. March 2024 - 16. June 2024
Paula Markert: A journey through Germany. The NSU serial murders

Eine Reise durch Deutschland. Die Mordserie des NSU. Foto Paula Markert
Beate Zschäpe with her Attorneys, Anja Sturm and Wolfgang Heer, 2015, March 25th
© Paula Markert
The trial of the crimes committed by NSU (National Socialist Underground) ended six years ago. Beate Zschäpe, the last surviving member of the trio, was sentenced for life on ten counts of murder. In the middle of last year, the last court of enquiry of the Bavarian Landtag published its final report.

Still, some questions remain unanswered: Questions by the victims’ relatives, who want to know how this could happen, questions for the state, its secret service, and for our society. It is necessary to keep the memory alive and to keep looking for answers.

For over a decade, the members of extreme right-wing terrorists NSU operated under the radar. Between 2000 and 2007, they murdered nine people with a migration background and one female German police officer, they executed numerous robberies and bomb attacks.

Paula Markert worked on this series from 2014 to 2018. With her photographs and selected text fragments, the photographer explores the events and interrelations.