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I’m Rachel, I come from Lyon (France) and I’m a young editor who wants to discover another countries, another cultures. I find inspiration in my work through travels and experiences, but first and foremost, through human bonding.

I rely on art and share several projects with different associations. As I feel very much concerned about social inequalities, I choose to fight it by the intermediate of Cinema; but also any other form of arts.

And then I decided to join dieKunstBauStelle for 3 weeks.

I was in charge of a video workshop with refugees and german students. I Teached them the basics of editing and post-production and some rules of cinema analysis . We create short videos thogether and also shot once.

I felt like a fish in water!

Wolfgang Hauck trust me and so we suceed to create a great workshop, create a beautiful and original video.

I’ve really loved to participate to a such project, I was not only a technican; I was really involved in the whole organization.

We’ve think, we’ve created, we’changed our plans, we’ve build new ones, we didn’t give up.

Anyway, there’s just nothing you cannot do with Wolfgang and dieKunstBauStelle.

It’s an amazing structure I discovered and which I’d love to work again.

Rachel

I am Christine from Northern Ireland. I have lived in Edinburgh for the last 14 years, a city known for arts and culture as a result of the Fringe Festival which brings artists and performers from every corner of the globe.

In these changing times of Brexit and talk of borders and walls on the world stage I decided that there was no better moment to travel the length and breadth of Europe… in a campervan, with my dog!

My plan is to visit 12 counties in 12 months and raise money for SOS Children’s Villages, a charity which supports the most vulnerable, and campaigns for children’s rights globally.

Workaway enables me to discover places and work with people I would otherwise never cross paths with, giving an insight into lifestyles never considered before.

Having just finished a project in Austria working on a dairy farm I was lucky enough to be accepted at dieKunstBauStelle.

The current project was a video workshop bringing together refugees and students from the local college.

I was able to learn and socialise with the group and another volunteer, Rachel, from France – “das was wunderbar”.

Translating descriptions into English for the organisations website was the role I was tasked with.
Having no former experience in this field, progress was slow to begin with.

Through the process of learning about each former and ongoing project I was able to understand the broad reach and impact this work can have. I am inspired!

Theodore Roosevelt once said, “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are”.

I now realise the scope and medium of doing good can be as varied as one’s imagination.
I thank you Wolfgang Hauck and Karla Schönebeck.

Christine

“There are so many people, of whom many foreign people show their love without thinking of profit
People serve people in crises and many moments
People turn to people when they are cold
People donate to people, people educate people. “

This is the first sentence of the song «Menschen» by the German Rapper UMSE. As the title says, this is devoted to the human being: there are good, evil, and those in between, there are big, small, old, young, very different characters with different character traits.

What is clear, however, is that more people want a very specific variety: “Positive people, I mean these people, who are never aggressive and restrict themselves to harmony.”

New, own video for the song

Because the song is so important from the very moment of his message and fits perfectly into our time, we decided to use it for our project. After all, it is about humanity, tolerance and integration. On the one hand, we will produce a new video of the song with the refugees as well as the pupils of the IKG. On the other hand, we would like to re-record it and let it be re-recorded by the project participants. The idea was for Tobias Dengler, grammar school teacher for German and history at the IKG, currently “seconded” as the class leader of the refugee classes at the Berufsschule.

Language challenge

However, in order to produce moving pictures to the song, it is important for us to get involved in the language and to understand the text, which is of course not self-evident to our young refugees. That is why we went through it in groupwork – in each case with the students of the IKG as mentors – have read it, discussed it and then finally gather ideas for the individual sequences to the video. For only those who understand the partly quite profound lines is able to realize a pictorial realization.

“The song fits very well with our theme,” says 16-year-old Sophia, who accompanies the refugees as an IKG student. “We explain to the refugees what they are doing and how the lines are to be understood.” The song shows that there are other sides and opportunities for people to get a better deal with each other. “

“I think it’s good that we’re doing something with music,” says 18-year-old Saimon from Eritrea. “It’s fun to make a new video for the song, I like the song because it’s about it “I can already understand the text, but sometimes it is hard for me to express myself.” Speaking and learning the German language is – apart from that From co-operation with German youngsters – an additional important reason for participating in the project. “Speak German and have fun – that’s why I come,” Saimon emphasizes.

Moving pictures

We have already begun with the visual implementation. That can be a lot of fun. But also a lot of patience had to be applied. “One is not the first, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, who has to make the decision, so do it or throw a coin,” raps Umse. The fact that it is not easy to show the thrown coin as a video sequence, our project participants have been able to convince themselves. It takes a few attempts until everyone is completely satisfied. Finally everything has to be right: light, shadow, position, litter of the coin, etc.

The 17-year-old Max, a student of the IKG, who is almost from the beginning, finds this project phase the most exciting. “It ‘s great to have the big picture now, to create a new music video, which makes sense and motivates, because music is added as a new component to the project, and it’ s even more interesting Is so multi-dimensional.”

Everyone can, of course, bring their own ideas and suggestions – everything is taken into account and tried to realize. Zeya, a 20-year-old from Iraq, is particularly pleased with the project: “Everyone has an idea, that is important. We eat and play and work together, that makes me great fun.”

But there is still much to be done. In the next step, we will cut past video material – matching the lyrics. And we are all very excited about what will come out in the end.

Landsberg am Lech, April 27, 2017
By Andrea Schmelzle, Photo Wolfgang Hauck

Since January 2017 Anne Tysiak and Peter Pruchniewitz, two speakers of the theatre “The Stelzer”, together with the young people from Mittelschule Landsberg, have attended four shows of theater plays in Augsburg, Memmingen and Munich and also cast a glance behind the scenes.

Theater in its different facets

In addition to the joint theater visits, the project participants also took part in guided tours behind the scenes. During the holidays and weekends, workshops were held for theatrical playing, writing and dramatizing, in order to get into the subject itself practically. In this way, the young people have become acquainted with theaters from very different perspectives – in order to develop ideas for their own scenes.

On Saturday, April 26th, they showed in a workshop in the well-attended Aula of the Landsberger Schlossbergschule, which has come out.

The Werkschau is a “public rehearsal” and not a finished play, Peter Pruchniewitz pointed out in the opening speech, which he shared with Anne Tysiak.

His thanks went to the federal program “Ways to the Theater” of the ASSITEJ Germany within the framework of the Federal Culture program. The “Die Stelzer” theatre and the Mittelschule Landsberg, especially their dedicated headmaster Christian Karlstetter.

The young actors and actresses were very pleased that so many spectators came and showed their play. Even though it was still called “I would like to rehearse for two more weeks” before the start, it was played convincingly and intensively on the stage.

When there was a copywriter on the stage, one noticed immediately, as some parents had protested with their children, because there was suddenly the keyword as a small help for the first stage performance of their lives.

Values ​​and current topics

In the scenes, the young people have implemented various techniques and formats: dream scenes, video recordings, sound recordings of surveys, and classical drama work with dialogues. The question was: To what would I fight? To topical issues that concern everyone.

Whether family conflicts, bullying, seemingly absurd career desires, beauty ideals versus overweight – in funny and original ways represented by food consultants and personal trainers on the one hand, and the food industry and laziness on the other – nothing was left out. In addition, an audio reportage on the subject of “bullying”, combined with footage on a screen as well as “looking away” actors on the stage, was a reflection.

As a final conclusion, all the performers have shown at the end a kind of Bollywood dance-show, in which it became comprehensible for all, how well they have teamed up in and with the work together.
Voices from the audience

Afterwards, as in the theater, there was a small “premiere”.
This was a great opportunity to capture the audience’s impressions:

“I thought it was very good, and I am still quite flattered,” said Barbara from Landsberg. “The piece was a round thing, the theme beautiful, and I found it fascinating that it was all worked out.”

Eva vom Ammersee was also enthusiastic: “It was very versatile, everyone could contribute. The motivation of the young people I found incredibly great – so long to hold out and so to bring in!”

“It was super beautiful, the topics were up-to-date and interesting, and the young people have implemented the topic super,” says Birgit from Bürgen. “It was noticed that they were with a lot of fun and joy.”

And it really was a lot of fun for the students. “I liked the project very much,” says 15-year-old Moritz. “I’ve never played before and it was great to work out and play all these different scenes.”

The 17-year-old Sarah also liked the project. “It was a nice community work and very funny.” Katharina, who also helped behind the stage and could only be seen for a short time on the stage, enjoyed it very much. “Just backing up and helping was nice, it was real Teamwork!”

«We have bundled the experience of many years and many poeple to realize innovative cultural projects.»
Wolfgang Hauck

This is a special achievement for the short time of the existence of the cultural association, especially since some projects have a special model character or are internationally settled.

The association “dieKunstBauStelle” was founded in 2014 and has been able to initiate or initiate more than 17 projects or programs over the last three years.

Various topics from the arts and cultural sector were implemented.

This overview presents the activities with the basic data.
Almost every project is presented with its own website or in exhibitions or video documentation.
The yearbook is available as a PDF document and will be published as a printed version in July 2017.

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Yearbook dieKunstBauStelle Projects and Programs 2014-2018

The Rotary Club Ammersee-Römerstraße supports the cultural education programs of the Landsberger Kulturverein «dieKunstBauStelle e.V.» with investments in media technology.

A new camera with accessories and sound technology for photo and film worth 2,000 euros could be purchased. The handover takes place during a workshop in Landsberg am Lech.

“We are very impressed by the association “dieKunstBauStelle e.V.” and is convinced by its work, quality and the sense behind the whole,” says President Nicole Truckenbrodt. “We always see that we are acting locally and globally with our measures,” continued Truckenbrodt. “Germans, together with refugees across the world, are creating something new, which we all do not know yet what it will become – and that is great. The project really opens up prospects for both sides and arouses hope for all of us. “

Wolfgang Hauck, board member of the association is very pleased with the donation: «Investments are not possible in our funding programs. With the donation of the Rotary Club Ammersee-Römerstraße, we are now able to use media technology for three teams. »

The participants are also looking forward to the current projects. Two media projects are currently running, in which the new equipment is being used intensively. The media workshop «TAMAM» is conducted as mentors with around 20 refugees between the ages of 18 and 26, with the support of IKG students. A further project with young people from the Mittelschule continues the workshop series “Türkenmariandl”. The focus is on video and film – from the creation of a storyboard to the realization of videos.

Photo by Conny Kurz
v.l.n.r. Backwards: Nicole Truckenbrodt, Sumia, Natali, Max, Abdulah, Adnan, Mohamed, Aweit, Andrea Schmlezle
In front: Javad, Berke, Simon, Wolfgang Hauck, Abas

Does the future look like this?

The piece “Between things we are safe”, we have on Saturday, January 14, In the Landestheater Schwaben in Memmingen.

It plays in a very own world, disturbing, strange, but not impossible – unfortunately? Or not? Or other?

We work on statues of «visions of the future» and try out our «visions» and discover, it is also different, but not by itself.

PHOTOAUSSTELLUNG
GIRLS FROM MMCC + CULTURAL RELIEF PROGRAM

15.-21. Februar 2017
Foyer historisches Rathaus Landsberg am Lech