Clearing out the OSTKREUZ archive: The September 1990 issue of Photonews was already set out for trash, when a perceptive eye noticed the cover story "OSTKREUZ: An East Berlin photographer's agency". A portrait, written a few months after our founding, that describes a lot of what is still characteristic of OSTKREUZ: the desire to deal with the market without sacrificing one's individuality, the refusal of a consistent group style and the importance of personal concern when tackling a project.
The author Wolfgang Kil is still connected with OSTKREUZ. Most recently, he wrote an essay for Werner and Ute Mahler's book "Mona Lisas of the suburbs".
