Author / Director: The Souvenir, 4:30 min., for ZDF sonntags, September 2006. Production: Surridge Films
Porcelain figurines from Italy, mosaics from Greece or the snow globe with the Eiffel Tower. Tourists have always been taking souvenirs home. The objects changed through the centuries but they all have in common that the object has more of a symbolic than an artistic value. People want to bring home to their every day lives a gift that will always remind them of carefree and happy holiday times. It is the symbolic value of easy times that makes the souvenir precious. The Museum of Applied Arts in Frankfurt devoted an exhibition to this object.