Christoph Reichenbach "Harlequin walking the tightrope"

With the construction of the tram link from Halle to Halle-Neustadt, the Rennbahnkreuz, the junction between the city of Halle (Saale) and the once independent city of Halle-Neustadt, which was incorporated in 1990, took on a whole new significance. For this traffic junction, which now connects the old town with the new town, Christoph Reichenbach created a six-metre-high sculpture that refers to this new situation: a tightrope-walking harlequin with two faces, balancing across this intersection. One face looks towards Halle, the other towards Halle-Neustadt; the upper body is rotated 180° in relation to the lower body, making the direction of movement just as ambivalent as the direction of view; both sides are "in front". Christoph Reichenbach studied sculpture with Gerhard Lichtenfeld and Bernd Göbel at Burg Giebichenstein from 1972 to 1977.