Philipp Goll
Philipp Goll is trained in media studies, slavic studies and european ethnology in Siegen, Wrocław/Poland, Berlin and Frankfurt/Oder. He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and works as a freelance author and cultural researcher moved by artistic methods of knowledge production in literature, film and dance. Since the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, he has increasingly devoted himself to the history of the German-Russian gas trade, petro aggression and activism against extractivism in organisation of public events, lectures, articles and translations. Recent publications: Philipp Goll, Oleksiy Radynski, Hito Steyerl: Leak. The Other Side of the Pipeline. Edited by Philipp Goll. Hamburg: adocs 2025 (forthcoming). Philipp Goll & Anne Röhl: Harun Farockis Didaktik. Leipzig: Spector 2025 (forthcoming).
TIMELINE: THE END OF A PIPELINE
2024
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Research and text: Philipp Goll
Advice: Oleksiy Radynski, Elske Rosenfeld, Hito Steyerl, Anna Zett
Layout: Manuel Reinartz (Polish version Martyna Wyrzykowska)
Presenting the chronology of German-Russian gas contracts, Philipp Goll's timeline charts the long entanglement of European energy dependency and authoritarian politics. From Soviet gas exports to Nord Stream's destruction, the research outlines how pipelines have functioned as tools of oppression for centuries. Critical in this chronology is the 1960s discovery of the Urengoy gas field in the northern West Siberia Basin. Goll brings forward a broader view of Russia's geopolitical strategy, contextualizing the war in Ukraine in relation to decades of economic and infrastructural affiliation. The timeline reveals energy as a political weapon, one that continues to shape our future.