At the Kremlin in Turkey.

Ski slopes in Dubai, the rainforest in Zurich, Wild West at Augsburg: Cloned holiday tourist attractions make possible worlds, which by nature is not foreseen. The photographer Reiner Riedler shows the consequences of global Disneylandisierung.
  God created in six days the ground, saw that it was good and presented a day of rest. Then came the man and thought that we could optimize the whole affair. Mexico without cockroaches would be more pleasant than with Mexico. And how annoying are the winter holidays, when the destination is no snow!
A man has renewed. He has the world to shape his image. Off the coast of Dubai, he has it as a group of islands created artificially again, in Arizona, a self-sustaining ecosystem by "Biosphere 2" in Zurich and a piece of Malagasy rainforest established because those in Madagascar itself is gradually being cut.
FOUND IN ... Our planet MERIAN content Issue bestellenwww.merian.deDer man can now be year-round skiing? in Bottrop in a heap in the overburden with 640 meters, the longest indoor skiing in the world. And when the sociologist Erwin K. Scheuch was right when he noted: "When traveling, many Germans are looking for is not the foreign country, but Germany, with the sun", so is the adventure "Tropical Islands" a gain in terms of human repair work.
Here, in the yard of the hall "CargoLifter" Zeppelins, a Malaysian group has a "Tropical Adventure" set? with pool, beach and a veritable rainforest. From the plane, the huge investment, as the Lord had a snow ball in the Brandenburg Pampa stored and forgotten.
The Austrian photographer Reiner Riedler is an expert in parallel worlds. The 40-year-old, a study ethnology abandoned for quite photography dedicated to exploring with the camera in European cities with ethnic and religious groups, who after the terrorist attacks of 11 September following their own rules and values of life.
Kremlin in Turkey, Venice, Las Vegas
With a eye for the absurd Riedler was also on the commercial parallel worlds of the tourism industry (the work will appear in 2009 as a book Moser Verlag, Munich): The luxury hotel in Turkey with a replica of the Kremlin, especially the large clientele of wealthy Russians should impress ; Disney World in Florida with his verkitschten plastic replicas of entire cultures, the theme hotels in Las Vegas, where canals with gondoliers of Venice have been copied, or a western town near Augsburg.
The almost blasphemous, in any case, strange and sometimes comical request of the people, with the help of plastic palm trees and roofs tropical habitats in the developed countries to build, African wildlife in the Lower Saxony Heide in fenced areas to let loose and in the lowlands Waterfalls them, has always a little sad, poor.
ON TO ONLINE blogs beaches of Goa: withdrawal from Paradise (23.12.2008) Hotel superlatives: Dubai celebrates the party of the decade (20.11.2008) tropical paradise in a duel: Bora Bora against Brandenburg (17.12.2008) But, it taught us Riedler photos, even the Chinese have this need, when he is in Shenzhen, an African village copies. And in Dubai, the Erzgebirge Schnitzfiguren Arabs in a market with half-timbered houses from cardboard buy.
Perhaps, then, is the need, alien worlds in domesticated form from the home to experience a human, all too human. But how ties Riedler picture of the space drivers in Bottrop-Kirchhellen in this photographic project?