‘Plattenbau’, zegt de chauffeur met enig afgrijzen als we langs wat dichtgespijkerde betonnen portiekflats komen. De door de DDR uit de grond gestampte flatwoningen liggen in Alt Schöndorf, twee kilometer buiten het historische centrum van Weimar. Al jaren dichtgespijkerd, en ook krakers keken er niet naar om. Een gehate erfenis, maar meer door het westen dan door het oosten. De…
Water is very good at covering things up. Sixty kilometres south of Weimar is a huge reservoir, about which the locals know little more than that the hydroelectric plant supplies power to houses and the steelworks, a few kilometres away. At least one village has also disappeared, and artist cum experimental radio maker Sandra Rücker found out that her...
I had - in a previous house - a neighbour who gave a young tree in front of our apartment complex a bucket of water every day. He had a thing for trees, as he had brought back some Sequoia seeds from a trip to the US, back in the day. He had put these in the ground in various places. One near the house, and that one, because of possible...
A lone madman? An unsuspecting visitor would think so, and when I arrived at the Theaterplatz in Weimar yesterday afternoon, I was that unsuspecting visitor. During the opening speeches of Kunstfest Weimar, a man shouted insulting texts at Bodo Ramelow, the prime minister of 'Free State of Thuringia'. The man dressed in a yellow vest was taken away by the police. Later, during a very bedraggled...
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