Bertram Kober
Es geht seinen Gang

Photographs 1977–1990
Novels by Erich Loest
With words contributions by Philipp Freytag and Sabine Brandt
120 pp., born, 220 × 270 mm, b/w-Fig.
ISBN 978-3-68948-108-7
Published: March 2026

Unique combination of literature and photography
Photographs meet literary locations
Contemporary testimony with artistic power
A piece of Leipzig's cultural history

In his photo essay volume “Es geht sein Gang” the Leipzig photographer Bertram Kober combines his haunting black-and-white photographs from the 1980s with wordss from Erich Loest’s novel of the same name. The result is a moving document that makes the atmosphere of those years between hope, routine and melancholy palpable. Kober’s photographs show streets, people, facades – the everyday, the banal, the beautiful and the brittle at the same time. The combination with Loest’s literary realism creates a dialogue between image and word that goes far beyond the historical: a multi-layered portrait of a city and its people that shows how close past and present are still close to each other.