“Right from the start, I suspected that there was more going on inside the chemical industry near Schkopau than the Dow company and the government agencies would let on. I think we all had that feeling. I learned to work with that suspicion, to make it ...Read more
In order to understand which toxic consequences former workers are still facing one should first take a look at the working conditions in the GDR and their relations to forced labour.
At the end of the 1980s, production facilities...Read more
To gain more insight into the subsurface situation in the Buna area, we spoke to a geologist working and teaching at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. Specialized in hydrogeology and groundwater modeling, he has worked on the environmental remediation of sites...Read more
“I travelled regularly by train through the region of the Middle German Chemical Triangle and have always been fascinated by the smoking chimneys, at the same time I often wondered about the impact of the by-products of this chemical industry. Our group work gave...Read more
Under pressure of increasing water demand and hygienic problems caused by a growing population and industry throughout the 19th century, the city of Halle projected the first waterworks in Beesen in 1867, located on the Elster River banks right beneath an old manor...Read more
“As my heritage is not German and the country I am from is known for its mountains and not its industry, I have to admit that I went into this fieldwork with some (mostly negative) preconceptions. Some of them, as for example, were the obscure data situation...Read more
