Journey to Eastern Germany is a journey through the recent past of a country that is now history and yet still makes its presence felt today. In autumn 2004, fifteen years after the fall of the wall, the author visited Germany's five new federal states: from 7 October to 9 November, in memory of the dates flanking the historical events of autumn 1989, he travelled to every corner of the former GDR. To Falk Haberkorn, who is old enough to have consciously experienced the socialist system, the journey seemed like a kind of catch-up course on local history: as an experiment free of any preconceptions about whether this country would still have something to say to him. And tied in with the question of how well its inhabitants had coped with the structural changes and whether this could be visualized. The journey developed into a photographic road movie. An inventory of a land that is still in transition, as seen through the window of a moving car.

这是一部关于东德的最近的历史之旅，这个国家现在已经成为历史，但今天仍然能感受到它的存在。2004年秋，即柏林墙倒塌15年后，作者访问了德国的五个新联邦州：从10月7日到11月9日，为了纪念1989年秋天的历史事件，他走访了前东德的每个角落。对福尔克·哈伯科恩（Falk Haberkorn）来说，他曾经体验过社会主义制度，这次旅行似乎是一种对当地历史的补习。哈伯科恩将它作为一项实验，不带任何先入之见，观察居民如何应对结构性变化，并研究如何将其视觉化地呈现给大家。这段旅程发展成了一部摄影公路电影。通过一辆行驶中的汽车车窗，记录着这片仍在转型中的土地。