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What They in Weimar can learn from We in Rotterdam

‘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… 

Theaterplatz Weimar with Günther Ücker's Steinmal, where the AfD holds fascist rallies on Mondays.

Journal Kunstfest Weimar #3: When remembering becomes a problem.

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... 

de ingepakte meubels van Nietzsche. foto: auteur

Dagboek Weimar (2): wat zou Nietzsche ervan gevonden hebben (of zijn zus)?

Ik had – in een vorig huis – een buurman die elke dag een jong boompje voor ons appartementencomplex een emmer water gaf. Hij had wat met bomen, want hij had van een reis naar de VS, vroeger, een paar Sequoiazaadjes meegebracht. Die had hij op diverse plekken in de grond gestopt. Eén vlakbij huis, en die werd, vanwege mogelijke… 

Theaterplatz, Weimar. citizens of the city of Weimar read out all the names d=of the victims of Buchenwald, while Günther Uecker's cairns are being built (Photo: author)

Journal Kunstfest Weimar (1): elderly and fragile.

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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