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The Marktkirche in Hannover may have a stained glass window installed as a gift from former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. The Hannover Regional Court dismissed an action against him. The heir to the architect Dieter Oesterlen, responsible for the reconstruction of the Marktkirche after World War II, had resisted the installation of the work designed by Markus Lüpertz.
Georg Bissen saw the copyright of his stepfather, who died in 1994, violated it and sued the market church community. The plaintiff is convinced that the projected glass window contradicts the Gothic interior of the market church because it does not have any of the style elements there. An argument that the court did not follow.
The window designed by Lüpertz is 13 meters high. Among other things, it shows a barefoot figure in a white robe, presumably the reformer Martin Luther, and five black flies, which could symbolize evil and impermanence. Despite pending paperwork, the parish had already placed the production order at a glass factory in April.
The Marktkirche was destroyed during World War II and rebuilt between 1946 and 1952.
