In the quiet river landscapes of Oder and Neisse, nature and history overlap. It is above all the 923 pillars, placed on both sides of the rivers, that tell us that this is borderland. Michael Bause followed the German-Polish border from Usedom to Zittau in a two-year project. His landscape photographs portray quiet, secluded, sometimes abandoned and forgotten areas. His portraits and testimonies of people who live on the very edge of Germany and Poland, and at the same time in the middle of Europe, depict the German-Polish border as an interplay of natural and political, historical, social and fictional borders. With an essay from Christiane Hoffmann. Michael Bause (*1966) is a freelance photographer; he lives and works in Cologne and Berlin. Christiane Hoffmann (*1967) worked as a journalist for FAZ and Spiegel. Most recently, she published "Alles was wir nicht erinnern".