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How to pronounce brass band in German?

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[music]
let's think of the word village a
small heap of houses surrounded by
fields and forest in the middle
probably
lined up on a string a town hall a church and
a restaurant
in the morning you can get fresh eggs from the farmer
the savings
bank is unfortunately already closed and the young people
i would think of things like this
first of all, because the word
ebendorf alone evokes images in us
that the four of us know from films and
television and that have found their way into our
collective memory
felix and i we do theater and
about a year ago year we sat together
and asked ourselves why we
actually only do what we
do in big cities and never in the
villages where we grew up
this year we just got the
opportunity to make art in the country
we are for four months all in all even
moved to a community
lived and worked there
we weren't in ours our own
villages but a place that is almost as wonderful as things
on the
swabian alb the tübingen state
theater on whose stage we are
today sent us there
to think of theater for the area differently
than when we arrived there,
but everyone noticed that first we
first have to think about the area completely differently
and that’s exactly why we
brought three thoughts with us today conception of
the country life is
shaped by clichés first of all by our
own we had to introduce
we have
n’t lived in our villages for ten years now and
when witten came
in anxious people always asked at the beginning what was
disappearing because here so with you
that was the answer then mostly
here in our village here
nothing disappears so we had to
start differently
we wanted to understand what the country is living
there on the swabian alb really
makes a difference and we went on a
search we did an
internship with a carpenter
we baked bread in the bakery we
were in the fools' band and the
fire brigade in the school with the
mayor and of course with people
at home from all the experiences
we had there small
artistic works were created that
such as a music video for a local band,
a character theater performance based on
interviews with young people,
or a time capsule in which we
collected things
that are in danger of disappearing.
at the presentations, it
was always important for us to work with
even more people from the area get into
conversation and for us
the actual artistic
project wasn't actually this work, but
exchanging common knowledge about
this
place together with time shows
that when we let them talk about
their living space in this way, the people themselves
actually came up with clichés about country life
back riffen what makes your
place special we asked you well the
close community says the
newcomer the short distances to school say the parents say the freedom and opportunity the schoolgirls
say the fresh air everyone
says and of course the alpler himself says
the l plan apologetically
we were also more often denigrated than city dwellers
, for example,
a young person said it is typical
that we are non-smokers for us, over
time, the question would somehow be
important, can they look behind the simplified
ideas of the lives of the
other people
from our experience, it is
actually right for that just call people
and invite them to coffee
preferably with people you would never meet otherwise
then the man who
buried his best friend yesterday tells you how
they organized a rock music festival together in the eighties
, in their village with international ones
stars
or you sit in the m oschee and
discusses the redesign of the
village square and why the children have been
forgotten in the process or you've been out and about for
hours with a puppeteer
until she almost casually mentions
that you were regularly involved in the excavations
of
troy the more we learn about the realities of
life of the people there place
in anxious experienced
the categories of town and country became all the more unclear for us
in most
people’s imagination the town is a place where
the most diverse
life plans of the different
social groups mix, while the
villagers are also held to be a
community of equals of
course not everyone is now
clichés about
country life inaccurate so the cell phone network in
fear is really not good and the
shops also make
long lunch breaks and if you walk through the village in the evening
you can hear the
brass band practicing in the gym
and one part of the village still has its
a old conflict with the other exactly
but the people don't just sit
around in their village the people in
fear e.g. the commute to work
to stuttgart study and
return or they exhibit their
ceramic works in tokyo no kidding
city and country are therefore closely
linked and that is not only
economically but also culturally,
socially or politically
even if in the imagination of some
people there are worlds in between
they actually form a common system for a long time
but where does this
idea of country life come from as its kind precursor our g
al of our civilisation a
form that has become superfluous we believe
that it is because in the
narrative of progress
we have no place for the village
because it is always the city that is seen per se
as more innovative, heterogeneous and
changeable than the area around it
and therefore a model for
the future is the village then only
has the r olle as a place of longing
where dropouts or artists can
retreat to hide from an
increasingly complex world
, but the village then appears as
something that has somehow stood still in
time and is either
attractive for that very reason or
fails because of that but
no future is promised, at the
same time he is denied being able to
develop at all
in the municipality of rimsting, of course, that
does not do justice to it, of course
, the church towers have shaped the skyline, so to speak,
and have been for centuries, but
all other buildings, streets or
land areas have made their mark on their own
radically changed in the last 100 years
this village is precisely the
cities not static but in process
and the village also shows itself to be
heterogeneous innovative and
changeable one can achieve an example
next to fears is a federal army barracks
were built on the site after the second
world war was before s already a
munitions factory with forced labor a
lung sanatorium a refugee camp
and of course celt graves there are
all over the swabian alb
then the families of soldiers moved, so to speak,
to fear and with
them a whole new settlement
on the outskirts of the community exist today
jokingly the pregnancy hill
is called the restaurants in the village flourished
and of course the army
organized events it remains
ingo afternoon kilo dance evenings and
all
weddings naturally took place in
the soldiers' home the presence of the army
means development for the place
roads were expanded a new and larger
secondary school was built that even had
its own swimming pool and of
course more
jobs were created around these barracks
at the same time, anxious became a
hotspot of the peace movement
activists from all over the republic traveled there at the time
because the us armed forces were in the woods next to the barracks
ft. nuclear warheads
were stored in the summer of 82. 700 people came
after frightened
blocked access to this camp for a week and
this action is still considered a
milestone in the history of german peace
movement and that happened in
frightened this small place
still exists today fears coagulate whose entry in the police certificate of good conduct has
only recently
disappeared when the barracks ended, a
waldorf school moved to the village at the first school
festival, soldiers still jogged past the
astonished supporters of alternative
pedagogy, but then the
apartments slowly became empty on the
pregnancy hill and
despite some resistance from the
village a new population settled in
anxious
one can see that the place has changed again and
again and is
always in the process of change
villages are just like cities namely in
constant change and these
changes shape d ann also
the coexistence and the local culture
the village is not a homogeneous community
but a network of people from very
different milieus
there are people from families who
seem to have always lived there and
there are people who have moved there are evangelical catholics
and wald is people who feel most comfortable
when you can see the church tower 24 hours a day
and people who
actually only live there because the
rent in stuttgart is much too
high for them this example shows how closely the
city and the countryside are really connected with each other
when there is no
or not enough social housing in cities
Funding is given to people and above
all to families in the surrounding
countryside, and this sometimes results in
dormant villages in which people live
whose main
focus of life is somewhere else. City and country also overlap,
so for us women, over time it was no
longer so easy to locate where
does the village begin now and where does the city for
you could sc hwabian alb also
tell a completely different story it broke away
from its rural life more than a hundred years ago
when it was extensively
industrialized and
due to the lack of water there
has never really been any real
agriculture on the
alb that has somehow brought any income there close today
just like everywhere in other
rural areas huge halls from the
floor goods warehouses data centers or
huge greenhouses such
large industrial structures remind
the architecture critic niklas maak of a
fallen skyscrapers in the
countryside scary villages and municipalities
are dependent on them because advertising taxes are one of
the most important sources of income there
yes, which cities,
on the other hand, could one say that they should be
redesigned according to rural ideals
,
so my environment is fallow land for heirs
farming only shop at the
weekly market or maintain
neighborly relationships with it
everyone knows each other very well
the rural under the stylish that will
then become, so to speak, a type of suffering in
inner cities the houses should get
smaller again and the streets narrower
and slowing down is the goal of
some current city map courtyard
projects
we see it’s a question of
categories depending on how we're looking at
maybe something urban will be visible in rural areas and also something
in urban areas
that we consider rural
it's a question of perspective from
the point of view of
hong kong a city like tübingen probably
doesn't necessarily seem like a city either what
makes a village very special strongly
politically designed so very well and in
detail as the mayor from
engstingen can
unfortunately not tell these shallows of local politics
but the quintessence of this is
practically that the design of the village depends
very much on farmers'
environmental protection regulations because they
namely the development of urban
centers and d prefer
von stetten and prevent the growth of villages
the village is not just like that village
so we could find a woman out
again we had to spend some time there
and we had to show people who
we are and what we want from them
before they even showed up let us
in at
the end of our time in anxious
on the very last day a week
ago we were invited to the village festival
and there we showed the work we had
done again,
including the time capsule that
we mentioned at the beginning
over the whole months
in which we kept collecting objects
and things from people to
then put them in a box
and put them on the church tower for 25 years
and more precisely when we
packed all the things for it the next day
but we're not
sure if that somehow
really brought me something and if
anyone but us then a We
will also remember it in 5 20 years, but then
the deacon, the mayor
and the band from the village fools’ association
surprised us. They came up with
their own ceremony, such as this
chest coming up in the church tower
church as
well as up in the tower and that was exactly
what was perfect for us because we
noticed that we now have an appointment with the people from the place
that we all make
sure that in 25 years this box will
definitely not be forgotten
so that something like that can happen, that
you enter into a contract
together, of course, you have to be there for a while,
some people we met who have been living there
for 50 years, they
wouldn’t call themselves
Engstinger and that’s why we know that
after four months of course only
know the surface but this beautiful and
also very confusing and definitely fa ll
still be worth a second or third look behind our entire work
in anxious for us there was always the
question of how can we meet each other differently
and can the knowledge that arises from these
encounters then be passed on
at
the end of the project we would like to have a
with you today start a little conspiracy
we gave you phone numbers during the break and at the
entrance and of course there
are phone numbers from
engstingen for each of you a
randomly selected number the people
behind these numbers don't know yet
that you will call them
[applause]
and we invite you come in
and we invite you to call there now
to be charming and to
try to be invited to coffee and pretzels
and if you manage to do that then tell
us about it afterwards definitely
enjoy this stay and this
moment that the people then give
and make to you your own picture of
this community
thank you very much
[applause]
[Music]