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    The smell of handmade sausages

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    The family´s kitchen - the heart of the butchery. Located next to the selling room, this is the place where stories are told - old and new. Stories about the past during their struggle to survive in world war II and present challenges - stories about cattle, about customers, about ancestors, friends or one of the 120 members of the extended family. Don´t  fool yourself - the family‘s voice is louder than this silent image might portray! There are heated talks in tidy rooms and the smell of four generations of sausage production skills… by: lena1982 Views[351] Cleanliness, of course, was and is a very important factor in the butcher business. Traditionally, it was the daughter‘s task to clean the production kitchen. To make the hard work easier, they loved to sing because the tiles of the rooms provided great acoustics. by: lena1982 Views[471] Times have changed. Germany has changed. Meat production has changed. While his grandfather slaughtered the animals himself at home in the butchery, Schüll III., like all butchers, is no longer allowed by German law to slaughter the animals himself. He buys the cattle from the farmer, gets their ear-chip in front of the slaughterhouse, and does not even have permission to attend „the process“ inside. Here you see what he picks up at the other end. by: lena1982 Views[1042] Just like the cows are aligned in the previous image - the sausages are aligned in this shot. Schüll III. puts them in the  „Räucherkammer“ (smokehouse) to achieve the smokey taste he wants. Doing it the same way as his father and his grandfather, soon, his son will follow. The butchery will carry on for a fourth generation. Every generation has a different story to tell, closely connected to German history. The only constant between the generations is the meat and the given name „Schüll“. by: lena1982 Views[433] For three generations, the Möller family has bought their cattle from the local farmer Michel in my village of Elz, far away from mass production in Germany. The barn still looks the same, but many changes have come and gone. The first generation included the six daughters of butcher Schüll Möller I. who had the duty of driving the cattle with a stick from the sourrounding farms to the butcher by foot many kilometers away. Today, many new laws are in place to regulate the transport of the livestock to the slaughterhouse. by: lena1982 Views[376]
     

    The smell of handmade sausages

    Thursday, 4 Jul 2013 | Views [311]

    When I was about ten years old I remember the first shot I was allowed to make with my Dad´s camera. It was a shot of a steep, curvy, muddy road sourrounded with trees on a family-holiday-roadtrip. This is how my love for photography begun. Even ... Read more >

    Photos: Scenes of a 4 generation butchers family in Germany.

    Thursday, 4 Jul 2013 | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

    I still remember the first picture I ever took with my Dad‘s camera when I was ten years old. It was a shot of a steep, curvy, muddy road sourrounded with trees on a family-roadtrip. This is how my love of photography began. When I was even younger, ... Read more >
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    Documentary Scholarship 2011 entry - Your forgotten neighbour

    Thursday, 16 Jun 2011 | Views [468] | Comments [1] | Video | Scholarship Entry

    Cows? Cows! They're everywhere and nowhere. One of our most frequent but also most anonymous neighbours. A challenging theme in terms of finding the balance between the so often tiring and accousing documentaries about mass stock farming and the ... Read more >

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