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Wolfgang Hauck
dieKunstBauStelle e.V.
Those who take part in this project become master builders, designers, artists and craftsmen themselves. For one week, the Landsberg cultural association “dieKunstBauStelle e.V.” is working on its ARCHITECTUS LUCIS project with Landsberg residents aged between eight and 99 as well as international helpers and speakers under the motto “We follow the work of Dominikus Zimmermann” to create objects, costumes and rooms from cardboard boxes in the old IKG gymnasium and experience the light art of the famous architect for themselves. Next Saturday, October 22nd, the big project closing event will take place from 3:00 pm.
Creative process
The whole week was dedicated to creation and creativity. “At the beginning, nobody really knew what the end result would be,” says Wolfgang Hauck, project initiator and chairman of “dieKunstBauStelle e.V.”. It was a creative process, thoughts were taken up, new ideas emerged, we were open to everything,” emphasizes Hauck.
Around 140 participants, including pupils from the secondary school, the IKG and the Montessori and Waldorf schools, have already contributed to the project. “In the afternoon and evening, there was a lot of support from refugees, artists and architects or simply people from Landsberg who just dropped by,” says Hauck.
Bringing light spaces to life
Ideas were first collected together. “The art of architecture is to create a space and bring it to life and make it accessible for living,” explains Hauck. “That’s initially what we did with the cardboard boxes – created spaces. the art begins where you deal with the available light of day and don’t just use electric light. That’s why openings and artistic cut-outs are worked into the cardboard rooms. This creates the light spaces. You have to imagine this principle in large dimensions – we have produced large” light space cubes “that can be moved around and combined.”
These large boxes, for example, were created with pupils from year 12 at the IKG, who are currently focusing on architecture in their art lessons. They were on site every morning for four days and were able to work intensively on the topic – the results are really impressive.
“It’s a great project,” says 17-year-old Jana, a pupil at the IKG. “I really like building something together with other people. What’s exciting about it is that, for me, cardboard boxes used to be just cardboard boxes. I would never have thought what you could build out of them, especially in this size.”
Other, mainly younger, schoolchildren also explored the topic of light design, albeit in a slightly different form. They covered windows with transparent paper or built cardboard figures in baroque poses based on the outlines of their own bodies. And finally, there are moving sculptures, modern angels and “flying boxes” – all of these elements are ultimately brought to life in the light room.
Like school – only ten times better
Eleven-year-old Matthias, a pupil at Landsberg secondary school, is delighted: “It’s like school, only ten times better.” His teacher Aslihan Özcan is also delighted: “It’s great that the pupils can be creative and express themselves. When they see the result on Saturday, they will feel even happier – because they were allowed to be part of this major project.”
“Our project is deliberately not a reconstruction of Dominikus Zimmermann’s life and work,” says Hauck. “We are not recreating, but following his work. And are trying to engage with his spirit, to internalize and trace his inspired artistic work.”
“Whether artist, architect, craftsman, student or pensioner: everyone is there and has the opportunity to empathize,” explains Hauck. It is very interesting to see: How does the architect work, how does the artist work? It is very important that the space and design interlock, otherwise it won’t work. The pure artist who paints a picture is free from these guidelines and can simply paint away. Here, on the other hand, there is a direct dialog with the world.
Big final event: watch, join in – and destroy
Everyone is working together towards the one big day – the final event on Saturday, where all the works will be presented in various forms.
This will begin from 15:00 to 16:00 with a parade of moving sculptures through Landsberg’s town center. From 16:00, the cardboard exhibition, party or performance – whatever you want to call this mixture – will be open in the old gymnasium of the IKG. Not only can and should you touch everything, but you can also open light windows, views and insights with the cutters or rearrange over one meter fifty large building blocks. The event will be opened with introductory words by Landsberg’s third mayor Axel Flörke (town of Landsberg) and district councillor Ulla Kurz (district). International guests will also be present.
Things finally get exciting at 10 p.m. – the gymnasium is locked and children are only allowed to attend if accompanied by their parents or guardians. Everything that has been created is destroyed again in a large, expressionist action. “That’s part of the concept and part of the event,” says Stegink. “All that remains are photos, videos and fond memories. This is about the baroque theme of becoming and passing away, nothing lasts forever.”
ARCHITECTUS LUCIS is funded by the Kulturfonds Bayern, the European Bavarian State Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts, the town of Landsberg am Lech, the district of Landsberg and the district of Upper Bavaria. The cardboard is provided by the company Redl GmbH and the scaffolding by the company Ratzka.
THE RED THREAD – TURNING OLD INTO NEW
WORKSHOPS during the summer vacation
COSTUME AND FASHION WITH RENATE STOIBER
10 a.m. – 4 p.m. or to be arranged.
- Monday, August 8
- Tuesday, August 9
- Wednesday August 10
- Thursday August 11
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- Monday, September 5
- Tuesday, September 6
- Wednesday, September 7
- Thursday, September 8
We also take a trip to the textile museum in Augsburg.
THEATER WITH PETER PRUCHNIEWITZ
10 a.m. – 4 p.m. or to be arranged.
- Thursday, September 1 to Monday, September 5, 5 days
Participation is free of charge.
Info for participants
Registration
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YOUTH
Ages 13 to 18
PARTNER
dieKunstBauStelle e.V.
Mittelschule Landsberg am Lech
Die Stelzer – Theater auf Stelzen
PROMOTION
“The project The Red Thread is supported by the program Jugend ins Zentrum of the Bundesverband der soziokulturellen Zentren e.V. as part of the federal program Culture makes you strong. Alliances for education of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.”
… but don’t worry, nothing happened, nobody was injured, nobody was ill. There are other reasons why the KunstBauStelle has been in Landsberg hospital more often recently:
In our current project “Türkenmariandl morgen”, we would like to portray the area of medical and therapeutic services provided by citizens with a migration background. This is particularly interesting for the young people with a migration background or who have experienced flight. Because some of them would like to take up professions such as nurse, PTA or even doctor.
For this reason, numerous young people – participants in our project – have recently made their way to the hospital together with project manager Wolfgang Hauck and various speakers, equipped with headphones, microphones and recording equipment, to conduct interviews with the relevant employees. Interviews about their life stories, their past, but also with a view to the present and the future.
It was not at all easy to find suitable interview partners who also had the time to participate in our project. Fortunately, Landsberg Hospital was extremely cooperative: with the active help of the HR department and nursing management, we were able to interview several hospital employees with a migration background.
What came out of it was very exciting and also instructive for the young people and for us. For example, when the doctor from Hungary talked about his past, how he came to Germany and the difficulties he had to overcome. And that he had to accept some setbacks along the way. However, his message also resonated with the young people: “Sometimes you have to take three steps back to take a big step forward.” Ultimately, these setbacks were important for him to be exactly what he is now: a doctor who loves his profession more than anything.
Or the nurse from Croatia who only came to Germany three months ago, but has already settled in well and speaks German surprisingly well for such a short time. “What tips can you give us?” the young people wanted to know. “Be ambitious, never give up and always keep going, always work towards your goal, then it will work out,” she encouraged them.
Without exception, everyone, whether doctor, nurse or nurse practitioner, found their job particularly rewarding: the opportunity to help other people. “It makes sense and makes you happy, because you get a lot in return,” was the general consensus.
The young people listened with wide eyes. Perhaps one day they will be at the other end of the microphone giving interviews about their life story and telling how they managed to become who they are.
Last week, Wolfgang Hauck handed over urgently needed relief supplies – baby clothes and diapers – worth 2,200 euros to the logistics manager of the Nusaybin refugee camp on behalf of the Landsberg cultural association “dieKunstBauStelle e.V.”. The “Netzwerk Selbsthilfe e.V.” association donated this sum to dieKunstBauStelle for the refugee camp. Further donations were made by the “Netzwerk Selbsthilfe” and the “Rotary Sozialfonds Greifenberg-Schondorfe.V.” for the “Cultural Relief Program” of the “Die Stelzer” theater.
In Nusaybin in south-eastern Turkey, just five kilometers from the Syrian border, the “Die Stelzer” theater is running a cultural aid programme. Wolfgang Hauck developed the concept during his first visit in December 2014. It is based on a multiplier effect: Trainers are trained as multipliers under professional guidance, who in turn train other trainers and provide children with cultural activities.
“When I saw the scale of the” smallest “camp in Nusaybin a year ago, with 3,975 refugees, half of whom were children and young people, it was clear that we had to act on a different scale,” says the initiator, who was commissioned by the Goethe-Institut Istanbul as an expert for cultural projects and invited to implement a cultural aid program. “If you then look at the camps in Urfa and Jordan with 20,000 or 120,000 refugees, such a concept is unavoidable.”
The children and young people are also traumatized due to experiences of violence and flight. “We are now specifically in a refugee camp for Yezidis, who not only come from civil war-torn Syria but also from Iraq. These people are not only fleeing war and IS, but are also persecuted as a religious minority. Their everyday lives are not only full of hardship, but also without any prospects or prospects.”
The need is great
Basic supplies are provided in these camps, but that only means food, water and a place to pitch a tent. Everything else is a luxury. The young mothers with their newborn babies are hit the hardest. They lack the most basic hygiene products. To date, around 350 children have been born in the camp. This year alone, 92 newborns have been born.
“For this reason, I have tried to provide small but direct humanitarian aid in addition to cultural aid. I was able to collect donations for this and have now used 2,200 euros,” says Hauck. With the help of the NGO “Her Yerde Sanat Derneği”, they bought 270 first aid kits for newborns and 270 large packs of diapers.
Tense situation
The original plan was to combine the handover of the equipment with further training at the camp. Landsberg-based Leonhard Mandl, stilt trainer, and Anselm Kirsch, music and percussion teacher, were part of the team for this purpose. However, things turned out differently: an absolute curfew was imposed on the city of Nusaybin (approx. 140,000 inhabitants). Seven civilians were shot dead during this phase. “The situation is extremely tense and critical. There have been several civilian deaths,” reports the head of the project. “We only received permission from the governor to go into the camp on the last day before we left for Germany. We were only able to stay there for an hour to hand over the donation.”
“Even if it’s only small amounts of aid: We can see that it arrives and where it arrives,” says Hauck. “In addition, our small amount of aid also serves to build trust with the camp administration and the governor, which is immensely important for our further cultural and social work there.”
During the handover, there was at least a brief opportunity to meet the young people with whom we have often worked together. They were about to present a demonstration for the younger children. It was immediately clear that the concept of “training the trainers” works. The young people organize themselves, make their own costumes, think up productions, in short: they do something.
Support from four “circus heroes”
A further donation of 4,000 euros will therefore be used to support four youth trainers. The four circus heroes of the NGO “Art Anywhere Association” of a “Social Circus School” in Mardin are 14-year-old Ahmet, 12-year-old Hale, 14-year-old Eyad and 13-year-old Khalid. They have already been trained by Wolfgang Hauck and other trainers so that they can now teach other children. These funds will give them the opportunity to attend a regular school and continue their education. This is by no means the norm for these refugee children: they would otherwise have to work six days a week, ten hours a day, for four euros a day to support their families, who have no opportunity to work or earn money.
This important cultural aid, which is also significant from a trauma education perspective, is now being extended to Iraq. A trainer from the program is already active there and has founded a first group in the refugee camp in Khanke (20,000 refugees). He was provided with stilts, drums and equipment by the Goethe-Institut Istanbul. Young people are also being trained here. “However, our aim is also to use our cultural work to provide humanitarian aid – as far as this is possible within our framework,” emphasizes Hauck.
The experience gained from the projects is also used in Germany. A follow-up project is a cooperation with the school in Schloß Zinneberg, where unaccompanied refugee minors are taught German in an integrative way. Hauck has also given presentations on the situation in Iraq, Syria and Turkey as well as an overview of the possibilities for cultural activities.
The more you get to know the problems in the Arab world, the more difficult it is to answer questions about solutions. It is precisely this insight that politicians need in order to deal realistically with the refugee problem here and to plan. Unfortunately, there is still a lack of information and approaches are too short-term.
The need is still great, whether for relief supplies or for the continuation of cultural work: anyone wishing to donate directly can easily do so online:
Donation link: Humanitarian Aid Nusaybin
Donation link: Cultural Relief Program
Info about the program
www. CulturalRelief.org