The media artwork Brienner 45 by the brothers Benjamin and Emanuel Heisenberg is located outside the Munich Documentation Center. In a film collage the artists juxtapose and contrast texts from key Nazi-era documents with historical and contemporary images. The film clips are shown on monitors distributed around the outside space rather like the walls of a ruined building.
The installation is designed to draw the attention of passers-by, visitors, and local residents to the historical significance of the location.Benjamin and Emanuel Heisenberg’s media artwork created in collaboration with Elisophie Eulenburg was the winning entry in a competition held by the Cultural Department of the City of Munich under the heading “The Origins of the Rise of National Socialism in Munich—Consequences for the Present and Future.” The jury praised the artistic approach, which, it said, set out to deconstruct Nazi semantics by highlighting its contradictions and referencing the present in disturbing ways. .