Let’s think about the word village
Small cluster of houses surrounded by
Fields and forest in the middle
probably on a string
a church house stretches a church and
a restaurant
in the morning you can fresh eggs at the farmer
Unfortunately, the savings bank already get
closed and the youngsters wander
off to such things I would as
the very first thought because only the word
ebendorf already awakens in us pictures
the from the four from film and from the
know television and the in ours
collective memory held
to have
felix and me we do theater and before
We sat together for about a year
and asked us why we
Actually, what we do is always only
in big cities and never on the
villages where we grew up
This year we have the same
possibility to get art in the country
close
We are for four months in total
even moved to a community
lived and worked there
we were not in our own
villages but almost exactly like that
wonderful place long ago on the
Swabian alb the country theater
tübingen on whose stage we today
has us sent there to
Theater for the space once different
to think
when we arrived there have now
But first of all , we notice that we are
For the first time, think of a completely different area
and we have to do that today
three thoughts brought imagination
to live on land are clichés
shaped first of all by ours
we had to introduce our own
We’ve been ten years now
no longer lived in our villages
and as witten came there in scare
People always asked at the beginning
what is going on here with you?
the answer was then mostly
here with us in our village here
nothing disappears so we had to
start differently
We wanted to understand what the country is about
there on the swabian alb really
make up and look for us
we were trained
made at the carpenter
we baked bread in the backhaus we
were at the fool’s chapel and at the
firefighters in the school at
mayor and of course with people
at home from all the experiences we have
have made it then are small
work artistic emerged the
about a music video for a local
tied a figure theatrical performance the
on interviews with young people based
exactly or a time capsule in the us
things have collected from the
disappearing are threatened
at the presentations they work out
was always important for us that we were with
even more people from the place ins
talk and was exactly for us
actually the real thing
artistic project not this
work but the common knowledge
exchange over this place
doing this together with the time
that people when we talk about them like that
let their habitat tell
actually even cliché about
Land life recaptures what makes
your place, we have asked them na
the close community says that
The short way to school says that
parents
to say the freedoms and possibility
The pupils say the fresh air
all
and of course the älpler says to himself
the l plan to apologize
we were also more often than urban
vilified once said, for example
a teenager that is typical
that we are non-smokers for us
therefore would somehow with time
the question important this behind the
simplified ideas of life
to look at each other’s people
can
From our experience it is for that
actually quite easy with people
to call and to invite to the coffee
best with people you never otherwise
would meet
Then one of the men tells you yesterday
buried his best friend like
They rock together in the eighties
have organized music festival and
Although in her village with international
stars
or you sit in the mosque and
discusses the redesign of the
village square and why the children
have been forgotten or you are already
hours with a puppeteer
on the way until she almost casually
mentions that they regularly attend the
excavations of troja were involved
the more we talk about that
livelihood of the people in the place
in anxious learned the more unclear
For us the categories were city and
land in the imagination of most
people is the city a place of
Mixing the most diverse
Life designs of different
social groups during the
village population also for one
community is kept the same
Of course not all are
Clichés about country life
inaccurate so the mobile phone network in
fear is really not good and the
Business also makes the extensive
lunch breaks and if you go through in the evening
the place for running then you hear the
Practice brass band in the gym and
the one part place still has its own
old conflict with the other exactly
but people are not just sitting
just so in their village around the people in
for example frighten the commute to work until
to go to stuttgart and study
come back or they will set theirs
ceramic works in tokio from no joke
city and country are so close together
linked and that ‘s not all
economically but also culturally
socially or politically
even if in the imagination some
People are living in between
they have long been a common one
system
But where does this idea come from?
from country life as his kind of preform
our goal of our civilization one
superfluous form we believe
that it is because of that in the
narration of the progress of the
we have no room for the village
because there is always the city is the per
se as innovative heterogeneous and
Changeable is seen as the area
around it and therefore a model for
the future is the village then has only
still the role as a longing place
who are dropouts or
artists can withdraw
facing an increasingly complex world
hide
exactly the village appears then but as
something that somehow stands in time
has remained and exactly either
that’s why it’s attractive or that’s why
fails by the village but so
to speak any future one speaks it
at the same time also at all
to be able to develop
in the community of rimsting one becomes so
but not fair, of course, there too
the church towers characterize, so to speak, the church towers
skyline since hundreds of years though
all other buildings roads or
Land areas have themselves in the
radically changed in the last 100 years
So this village is exactly the cities
not static but in the process
and also the village shows up
heterogeneous innovative and changeable
this can be achieved by example
next to fear is one
Bundeswehr barracks were built after the
World War II was on the site
previously a munitions factory with
Forced labor a pulmonary hospital
refugee camp and of course celts
graves are everywhere on the
swabian alb
then, so to speak, moved
soldier families after anxious and with
They were the result of a whole new settlement
at the edge of the community exist today
jokingly the pregnancy hill
means the restaurants in the place
has flourished and of course the
Bundeswehr event
it stays ingo afternoons kilo
Dance evenings and all weddings took place
Of course the soldiers heimstatt
the presence of the Bundeswehr means
for the place so it was development
Roads expanded a new and
larger realschule emerged which had
even its own swimming pool and it
Of course, more were created
jobs around this barracks
around
at the same time, it became frightening
to the hotspot of the peace movement from the
The whole republic is active at that time
arrived because in the woods next to the barracks
the US forces are nuclear warheads
In summer 82 , 700 people were camped
After having been frightened for a week
blocked access to this warehouse and
This action is still regarded as a
milestone in german peace
story
movement history and that is in
frightening happens this little place
today there are fears clot
their entry in the police
just recently
have gone out
then with the end of the barracks pulled one
waldorf school in the place at the first
school still jogged soldiers to the
Astonished trailer in the alternative
pedagogy then but the apartment
were slowly empty on the
Pregnancy Hill and it settled
despite some resistance from the
village a new resident in
scary
You can see that the place again and
has changed again and always
Again in change, too
is
Villages are exactly like cities namely
in constant change and these
Changes then also shape that
living together and the local culture
the village is not a homogeneous community
but a network of people from all over
different milieus
there are people from families there
apparently always live and
There are evangelicals there
and forest is the people most comfortable
Feel like you are 24 hours a day
church tower can see and people there
actually only live because for them the
rent in stuttgart is way too high
just this example shows how tight
city and land really together
are networked because if in cities no
or not enough social housing
is funded rich people and before
all families on the land around it
out and thereby arise partly
but sleep villages where people
the center of their food lives entirely
Elsewhere, city and country overlap
So also for us women with the
time was not so much to locate where
because now the village starts and where the
city because you could the Swabian
alb also has a very different story to tell
already over a hundred years ago
their rural are solved than they are
namely fully industrialized
In addition, has been on the alb
due to lack of water it actually
never really right
agriculture somehow given
earnings brought close there
today as well as everywhere else in others
rural empty out huge halls
the floor warehouses or data centers
huge greenhouses such
Remember industrial big structures
the architecture critic niklas a maak
fallen skyscrapers in the
countryside villages and communes
are afraid to rely on them
because stop there
promotional tax with the most important
source of income is yes over which
Cities, on the other hand, could say that
she just went to rural ideals
to be redesigned
So my environmental wasteland for
Erben farming is only available on the
weekly market shopping or grooming
neighborhood relations with it
all know each other very well
the village under stylish that will
then, so to speak, to the sorry type of
inner cities the houses should be back
get smaller and narrow the road
and slowdown is the goal of
some current city map courtyards
projects
we see that is a question of
categories depending on how we look
may be in rural as well
something urban visible and in the
urban also something we for
keep rural
that is a question of perspective
The view of Hongkong seems
probably a city like tübingen
Not necessarily like a city
a village is also very strong
Politically designed so very well and
as detailed as the mayor
Engstingen can become these shallow
the municipal policy unfortunately not
but tell the quintessence of it
is that the design of the
village very much of farmers
environmental protection depends because
namely the development of urban
centers and stetten and
he prevents the growth of villages
The village is not so village
so that she could find a wife again
We had to spend some time there
and we had to show the people who
we are and what we want from them
before they even look at us
have admitted
to end our time in anxious
the very last day a week ago
we were invited to the dorffest
and we have the work we do there
have shown under again
Just like that time capsule
We mentioned at the beginning
We have that for the whole month
in which we always objects
and things collected by the people around
Then you end up in a box
and for 25 years on the steeple too
and more precisely than we did then
next day the things for everyone
but we did not have packed
sure if that’s me now
really what has brought and whether
someone besides us then also in 5
But it will remember for 20 years
We have the diacon of the mayor
and the chapel of the jester club
to the village surprised you have one
own ceremony devised like this
Chest Now in the church tower comes up so
kept talking and farewell songs
played both down in front of the church as
also up in the tower and exactly for us
That was perfect because we were
have noticed that we are together now
with the people from the place just one
We all have an appointment
pay attention that in 25 years this box on
every case will not be forgotten
so that something can happen so that
you enter into a contract together
Of course you have to take a time for that
be there
Some people we met
They would live there for 50 years
himself not yet as engstinger
denote and that’s why we know that
Of course, after only four months, only the
surface but know this beautiful
and also very confusing and on everyone
case a second or third look
Worth are still behind our entire
work in fearful stood for us
Always ask how can we get ourselves
encounter differently and they can know that
that arises during these encounters
then be passed on
We would like to conclude the project
today with you a little conspiracy
start
We have you in the break and on the
input phone numbers given and it
Of course, phone numbers are off
Engage for each of you one
Random number the people
behind these numbers do not know yet
that ye will call
[Applause]
and we invite you purely
and we invite you now there
to be charming and to call
try to coffee and pretzel
to be invited
and if you manage to do that then tell
in any case afterwards
enjoy this stay and this
moment the people give you then
and make your own picture of yourself
this community
Many Thanks
[Applause]
[Music]
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