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Karin Pausch

Born in Bad Urach, Germany in 1958.

Karin Pausch’s biography was reconstructed after her death in 2002 using her files and documents and in close collaboration with social workers and end of life caregivers. A former housemate of Karin’s read her biography for the recording.

Biography

Bad Urach, Germany

At age 6, I am afraid of my addict parents

Ulmer Straße, Bad Urach, Germany

At age 12, my father dies

Römersteinstraße, Sondelfingen, Reutlingen, Germany

At age 13, I use my mother's medication and cannabis

Ulmer Straße, Bad Urach, Germany

At age 16, my brother dies

Bad Urach, Germany

At age 17, I am shooting heroin

Alteburgstraße, Reutlingen, Germany

At age 18, my mother dies of an overdose

Place de la Comédie, Montpellier, France

At age 19, I am homeless in France

Herlikofer Straße, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany

At age 25, I am for the first time incarcerated

Schubartstraße, Asperg, Germany

At age 30, I infect myself in jail with HIV

Rotterdam, the Netherlands

At age 31, I escape from another incarceration to the Netherlands

Jacob Catsstraat, Rotterdam Noord, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

At age 32, I fall in love with a junkie and live with him illegally in Rotterdam

Düesbergweg, Münster, Germany

At age 40, I return to Germany for rehab, am treated with methadone and start drinking

Albert-Schweitzer-Straße, Münster, Germany

At age 41, I am locked up in a psychiatric hospital

Königswall, Innenstadt-West, Dortmund, Germany

At age 41, my lover is shot dead

Platanenallee, Unna, Germany

At age 42, I am committed to hospital in LÜSA with advanced liver cirrhosis

Alter Dortmunder Weg, Schwerterheide, Schwerte, Germany

At age 44, I die in the company of my caretakers

The conceptual architecture of TBDWBAJ is based on the investigation of various social spaces, isolated space, cultural space, public space and virtual space. Each of these rooms describes a phase of the project and takes on a different perspective.

THE ISOLATED SPACE

LÜSA, Unna, DE

THE PUBLIC SPACE

Drop-off Unna, DE

THE CULTURAL SPACE

(no the cultural space spaces)