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it's good. and rudy gabler have made a surprising discovery in the old cemetery and published a tombstone marking the grave of pastor david and studer. grandfather of the german philosopher friedrich nietzsche. ah, nieto was born in a village, only a short distance from populace in 1844. and he often came here as a child he had a close relationship with his grandfather. and it's likely that he heard his grandfather preach a sermon. their tale in this church, on the once imposing structure has now fallen into ruin. ah, ah my in good heavens. it looks terrible. he does all they'll have to

clear all the vegetation away before they can see if anything can be rescued. architect garrett of esther mon examines the weather, beaten walls and makes an assessment about whether reconstruction is even an option . after his 1st inspection, he's optimistic was mitchum of hoyt us them and miss young of us. what i like last is not adding something new, breathing new life as world structures. this is christina, that it's healthy for the whole lot. if you preserve and maintain something from the pass it, oh add something interesting to addict and all new functions is almost endless. i does not know infant so and so filled. the 2 artists and

a few fellow enthusiasts meet at pastor luther les kosky house to form an association with the aim of restoring the church. when man, should we start with the fundamental question of the church as legal status eved could legally own good, let him west your 1st us, but they decide to 1st draft the associations charter. so the members have plenty of ideas and different visions for the churches future. it will take a lot of discussion to reach an agreement that 1st they have to see to securing the site. because what remains of the building looks ready to collapse faster unless gorski is more than happy to pitch in and get down to the business of clearing trees and undergrowth. ah

yes, but yesterday i was in saint nicholas church in like conducting evening service. and today i'm filling threes and problem with a chain. so in porpoise ah, life is 35 kilometers away and can be easily reached by car stains. i did the dean quince, tyler to bowen. some of the members would like to turn the church into an art gallery of national importance and find others would like to make it a kind of community house for the region myself. that 2nd idea could succeed if the people in the village like it and hold their family celebrations here. and there are pentecost services and the fire brigade has a summer party or whatever was more, it's good say is a well known artist from eastern germany. he plans to stage a major exhibition here with a friend the painter roodick or gabler everson. after i knew we knew, as i've often started with ruin principles to the 1st of all, it's

a way of approaching an object. you get closer as you work the way hacking everything away and they spend time with it, thinking about, you know, it's basically it's a kind of land acquisition. it we take possession of the place. wouldn't stay or so on. some of the mom. so i no longer believe this is a vision. it's a plan of this yolanda susan clearness. it's now clear where the 2 painters want to and they're, well tor, the, let's the alice de la will talk on towards the armless yard. yeah, we plan to stage the final exhibition of our grand tor here. next year. i wanted to be held in this space as we are. i want to leave the building open to the sky and cover the walls with something forming a white cube end. we can construct a floor here with sand or wooden panels. none could leave the tree standing by impulse, we'll have a canopy of leaves over the exhibition that the implants heaped and creates a temporary exhibition space or. and when the exhibition is over,

i will take everything out again. and then ideally the project will continue that comes on the roof will be built, get us off and leave wide are, this is the half stock and it's going to take a lot of hard work. but the pastor has good ideas and some practical skills that are proving very useful except knocked a vendor with now about after german reunification. i was allowed to take the university entrance exams. elizabeth in communist east germany. i'd been rejected out of hand for political reasons. but re unification came at exactly the right time for me. but then i didn't feel like going to university. it fell to abstract laptops that so i trained to become a stonemason from this is an enormous project, but i think we can handle it. coming from the german novelist and nobel laureate thomas man, invented a setting for his novel doctor faust, us an imaginary town in central germany and

a witness to german history. it's high culture and it's decline into depravity. he called it kaiser's ashan and uncomfortable. it was after his heal more, it's came to me instead, it's here. it hadn't occurred to me, so let's just do it and it will work out. he said that so we imagined kaiser's ocean here, and that's what we called the association wagon. and most of the members only have spare time at the weekend, and it takes many months to clear away the rubble of decades. but eventually, the old church floor will see the light of day again. the original stones are sorted and carefully stored with under the vegetation. the crypt lies waiting to be discovered

with the artist plan to make boards out of the old beams. a small gifts for donors and fun of cuz if i wasn't who didn't known this is oak from the 15th century, we'll saw a top and plain it nicely. ink of your guys of us on a po, them will engraved, kaiser's ashen on it, and every one we want to thank, we'll get one and she chin put up with both of any 3 of us you you think of the thick when i see want 5 or 6 people have achieved in 3 days. i wonder how is this possible with

a few hours more on somebody makes a start than everybody's glad to pitch in that that's what we hear. 4 years old of with a clear majority. the pastor is elected chairperson of the kaiser's ashburn. association. blue smoke rises near the old church building a fitting symbol, perhaps a sign that a place of new inspiration is emerging. the local community is already involved in the project. mister miller, who sometimes provides electricity for the equipment, has made coffee to day. oh, hello. hello. hello. hello, mr. miller. it's great. we've resolved our little disagreements so quickly. i was able absolutely come in for coffee. ah. oh, the mood is relaxed and everyone gets along. suffer we are both father

and z, and i was also your real native of popular law and populous born here, right? warm, you think of all cool strangers descending on their village to rescue the old church came as something of a shock to the residence of hopeless. but they soon realised that the project would bring new life into the village and spark interest in its history. according to the apostle love is no problem, though she will not listen to them shows was pencil bogus. the 1st public event held in front of the ruined church juror, a big audience, including the mayor of published the performance featured some experimental electronic music, filmed by a member of the audience on a smartphone. ah

ah ah ah, the 1st church to be built on this site went up in the 10th century. but the building that lives here in bruins, these back to the 15th century and was refurbished in the 18th century, neglected during the communist era. the building continued to decay even after german reunification in 1990 the volunteers want to use the original stones as much as possible the architect supervised as much of the restoration work. and before it got under

way, he made an initial assessment of the buildings condition ever sets us as kirsten to fill a home often when as get the nave is open to the sky on the left of the roof is what we can see on old photo subtle that presents a challenge and a more to do with a historical monument in this condition, you know, to, we try to restore it as much as possible at a glove which we talked about of the 1st meeting. what, what do we say? let's honor the out, she'll preserve it the last but add something functional would bring alan fontanello that so securing the masonry was a prerequisite for holding a public event inside the ruined church. with 3 members of the berlin philharmonic orchestra are giving a benefit concert in aid of the project. most of the audience are seeing the church for the 1st time for the musicians to the difficult conditions are 1st,

but they don't let wind or weather stop them. ah, pianist, marbled kaiser violinist michael eyes and clarinetist mon friend. pies have chosen to perform handles trio sonata. it's a somewhat tongue in cheek choice because honda was born in the east german city of holla, where the artists more it's goodson and rigor. gabler also come from. 2 ah,

ah ah, for an hour the audience has been treated to works by composers from the time of reject me check. the inspiring music has put them in a generous mood. with

more it's good say, and rudy go key blair, have returned from their world tour, bringing their artworks with them with food senators who would urge glad you worked together well because you're so different shirt as it takes to in a statement of yours, greedy god. i read good sir, is hard working. he bla rather lazy flies issue. you blow your follow. the 2 artists have known each other since they were boys collaborated on many projects together and dreamed of international success on hobbies, info, minor guns, and point of it uncles knocked. i called my friends all over the world. the plot i said i was planning will talk and asked if i would help video link to within a week, not on while the others were still working on the invitation listed. and i had organized a tour with 34 locations wouldn't. i didn't really think about what it would involve retorted originally what we plan to travel for. yes,

it turned into several, even colton. mom alo, conduct classical grand too, had a carriage and a draftsman to handle the menial things. but what we lugged around went way beyond that. we went trying to make ourselves happy, but make others happy. gluten, i says whatsoever, looking good the by the 2 artists are ambassadors for their birthplace. the historical center of german culture where the protestant reformation has its roots, luther country, ah, their travels took them to 5 continents. one of their exhibitions was in new zealand. ah, they ventured as far afield, a southern india and showed their works in offices of the girl to institute and in german embassies around the world. including in london where they won new friends and fans as they did in brussels, in italy and australia. and then they returned

to their starting point, published and this small but one significant church to end their grand tour with a large exhibition. hello, just and most complex exhibition with the most pitfalls of difficulties is the one here in publish. oh, many local people came to the opening, but there were also visitors from berlin, leipzig, and airport. people curious about the church and excited to see a special exhibition in an unusual setting. oh, the guests included v i p. 's from the region and the deputy minister for culture and the state of saxony on hot ha. the catalog documents the artists world tour with home demise. he general thought the deputy minister receives an explanation of the plans for the rest of the project. this

hello is king of involved in terms of a long while. the marquee slowly fills up, and other visitors are still chatting at the buffet. the 2 artists make final preparations and arrangements and the event itself will be opened by a pastor and association, chairperson looter, less kosky fighting and find a dear friends were about to enter a decorative ruin. and the combination of those 2 words leads me to a quotation from frederick nature. i just, i think that the teacher confused in his slim volume human old to human, he rides his height in ruins, as decoration as walk zisha defeat guys. think about people who go through

many spiritual changes, retain some views and habits from earlier stages. this then just out into their new thinking and acting like a bit of inexplicable antiquity and greystone rather often ornamented the whole region. you know that this is an immaculate, it's an odd connection. many will still remember this place. how it looked 2 years ago. the condition, the ruins completely overgrown? you know, it's spoke of desolation, destruction decay, so so long for pilot irrelevant. irrelevant tooth and loss of memory. jagged it faced an empty sky nature. the anita who walked along here is a little boy where we're sitting now chose the word decoration. look, dear, shook the other decorations in hans. yeah, he raised people above their lowly naturalness if they're made of precious

materials or assume fine forms for they enhance the beauty of youth and conceal old age will focus this article or by drop the fire. so you may very well ask the question and some people will certainly do. so why here in publish, how in publish of all places can we succeed in returning home to kaiser sashon? i believe the answer to this question is, art is the irrepressible power of art. with which rudy got gabler and morgan. it's good circle turned the fictional town of kaiser sasha into a real place also. i the bay allen fulfilled. 3 days after the guests have explored the grounds and contemplated the resurrected legend. all that remains as for the final stage of the artist's world tore to commence in here,

this way. with all the coaches when the ball wash it. that's what's happening here in the church. he's wonderful. amazing. i would never have thought you could cool off a project like this in a ruined like this. and the ruins of steel, tangible in his pile of rock, all overgrown and wild with parts of it. and behind it, the artist,

it's really wonderful. there's a struggle. after being shown in more than 30 locations, the enamel and oil paintings are back home in germany. it's just we know it's on the church. ruins are a kind of frame for the art, but the ruins are also kazama cruz 12 through an artistic synthesis because of the objects exhibited here. a world taught what it culminates here. oh, and it's a lot of let you move. it's good. so inside fiancee and young can, we don't know what's good for many, many years as an amazing, outstanding artist and the connection that really thrilled now is that i grew up in this area. it up. what is it that didn't get off? go back to the bill. it was a fortunate guy. you have to remember he's one of the few contemporary artists who

take some historical themes and re interprets them for the 21st century to snow and lot and for contour with marvelous under was what fell. i can't think of another word for it and so lam of is more of it. i've no more. it's in his big ambitious projects over the years, but this takes the cake to getting a to mom of marvelous lahoma. so i know applaud and have contours exhibiting art in this unusual setting, drew the attention of the media and a large audience. but for the architect and the members of the association, it's time to look to the future. the know i knew a legal oh and we have some new ideas, glove poly, influenced by our experience and staging. the 1st exhibition good and the feeling space evokes weakling. off of it takes time to get a feeling for a space in the ballistic. put all via or,

and our thought is to have light coming in from above and to make the entire night a single space which can be used for various functions, meaningful, so on and to rebuild the staircase and the tower tall. so the upper level can be used as a viewing platform on the all the, even at a storm astellas or is it petroleum? what's the income? ah, the association is already meeting with pastor less cowski to discuss plans for the church. they have a number of ideas, but germany has strict building regulations, which conservationists have an important oh, by the most recent design featuring a flat roof was reject it. now they're working on an ambitious new design. this is, this is an original photo. with

the new plan calls for a glass roof based on the original one, it will be delicate looking, but strong, creating a large space with lots of light, but also protection from the sun with the members of the association are one over by phone. so are done by its own dog. in the recent exhibition with marriage, we saw that having that light from above was quite lovely in this ultimate diminished for all. so the idea of glass roof is back on the table last are called to muffin. be docile to song, asked, vamped warden on this tower window here in right now it's brick top business. if we want to open the top and make a large window out of it, and we have these 2 windows over here, and another way was wasn't, then we have these 2 long roll, but still have light coming in here with the angle we once per class in the to entrance doors. oh so that light can also enter from that list going and they'll match the glass roof. cancel soon. deposit that gets sudden off. there's also an

open space plan which to be us came up with that's the original wasn't sources under. we'll split it up. it's not mine. i've made a new one because we agreed we should have a bit more green space for louden so we're cutting down on the paved area. lawson isaac clock to steve the fence. destiny plays nice thing with the help of private donations and public funds. one day the old church will resume its place at the heart of the village. ah, ah, ah, with

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