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. it's good that 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 or 2 in this church right on the once imposing structure has now fallen into ruin. ah, ah my and good heavens. it looks terrible. he does owe us we'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 the money, all of us. what i like last is not adding something new, breathing new life and so old structures. this is good things that it's healthy for the whole lot. if you preserve and maintain something from the past it, oh add something interesting to it. it's an all new functions is almost endless. i just know. mindful soon so filled the 2 artists and a few fellow enthusiasts meet

a pastor luther les kosky house to form an association with the aim of restoring the church when one should. we start with the fundamental question of the church. as legal status, eve could leave his own good, let him west your faces, 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 kaski is more than happy to pitch in and get down to the business of clearing trees and undergrowth. ah yes. so yesterday i was in saint nicholas church in like conducting evening service

. and today i'm filling trees 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 fight. others would like to make it a kind of community house for the region for 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 a lot more. it's good say it's 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 and consist of, 1st of all, it's

a way of approaching an object. you get closer as you work or 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 them on. 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 end their world tor. the let's the alice de la once more con tallie. i'm the senior. we plan to stage the final exhibition of our grand tour here next year, and i wanted to be held in this space this year. i want to leave the building open to the sky and cover the walls with something forming a white keep. and we can construct a floor here with sand or wooden panels that 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. 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 all. this is the obstacle 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 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 declined into depravity. he

called it kaiser's ashan, and uncomfortable. it was after his heel 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 ashen 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 nicely ink of your guys off us on a po, them will engraved, kaiser's ashen on it. and every one we want to thank, we'll get one inch new template. offered with both of them to be here with you. yeah. think of 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 when somebody makes a start,

but then everybody's glad to pitch in that that's what we hear forth with. with a clear majority, the pastor is elected chairperson of the kaisers asher. an 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. mr. 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 disagreement so quickly. oh, absolutely, come in for coffee. ah. oh, the mood is relaxed and everyone gets along. suffering. we are both father.

and this is also your real native of poplar law and populace. born here, right warn you. think of all cool and 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 child bolden, 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 public. 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, steve, 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 hello ms.

sits, this is kirsten to fill a home office. when i get the nave is open to the sky and all this left of the roof is what we can see on old photo shuttle that presents a challenge. and what to do with the historical monuments in this condition go to we tried to restore it as much as possible, i think with which we talked about of the 1st meeting. what, what do we say that's on the old israel preserve had to last us, but that's something functional. bring all of us 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 need 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 eunice marbled kaiser violinist michael eyes and clarinetist, man friend, prize, have chosen to perform handles trias 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 good. and rigor gabler also come from. 2 ready ah,

ah ah 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 sir. and rudy gabler have returned from their world tour, bringing their artworks with them. but fortune, yet those who admit ojibway, do you work together? well, because you're so different said as it m text in a statement of yours greedy god, i read. good sir, is hard working. he blew rather lazy flies. is you bloody of how the 2 artists have known each other since they were boys collaborated on many projects together and dreamed of international success ordinance. hobbies involve minor guns and $400.00 of it. uncles knocked. i called my friends all over the world. the plot i said i was planning a will talk and asked if they would help vittie or licked within a week. not on while the others were still working on the invitation or students. i had organized a tour with 34 locations. i wouldn't, i didn't really think about what it would involve retorted originally what we planned to travel for. yes, it turned into several even gotten mom alo,

conduct classical grand to 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 couldn't 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, their travels took the to 5 continents. one of their exhibitions was in new zealand . ah, they ventured as far afield as 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 homeless and the small, but one significant church to and their grand tour with a large exhibition. hello. just and most complex exhibition with the most pitfalls, difficulties is the one here in publish. oh, many local people came to the opening, but there were also visitors from berlin, like fish and air fort. people curious about the church and excited to see a special exhibition in an unusual setting for the guests included v i p. 's from the region and the deputy minister for culture in the state of saxony on hot huh. the catalog documents the artists world tour with a whole demise in general thought the deputy minister receives an explanation of the plans for the rest of the project. to so low cost was king approval then

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 ah, and the event itself will be opened by a pastor and association chairperson luther less kosky leave us. why do you and, 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 of i just, i think he took a field in his slim volume human all to human. he writes his idea ruins as decoration as look though her defeat guys think about people who go through many spiritual changes,

retain some views and habits from earlier stages that he actually just out into their new thinking and acting like a bit of inexplicable antiquity and grey stone right often ornamented the whole region. this is an immaculately, it's an odd connection. many will still remember this place, how it looked 2 years ago. this was the condition, the ruins completely overgrown. you know, it's spoke of desolation, destruction decay so soon of high irrelevant, irrelevant tooth and loss of memory. jagged it faced an empty sky nature. the amateur 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. yet he raised people above their lowly naturalness. if they are 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 rote. the fires that 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. the irrepressible power of art with which rudy got gabler and morgan's good circle, turned the fictional town of kaiser sashon into a real place i the bay allen. fulfill 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 colors? yes. when the ball wash it, that's what's happening here in the church. she's wonderful. amazing. i would never have thought you could pull off a project like this in a ruin like this. and the ruins are still tangible in this pile of rock all over grown and wild with barks the use of it and behind it, the artist. it's really wonderful. this is drugs turn 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 either church ruins or a kind of frame for the yacht, but the ruins are also exams. construction and artistic synthesis because of the objects exhibited here. a world taught what and it culminates here and it'll also let you move. it's good to show 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 me is that i grew up in this area, it up what is in that didn't of collect built. it was really fortunate guy. you have to remember he's one of the few contemporary artists who take some historical

themes and reinterpret them for the 21st century to snow and lot and for contour with marvelous and lovers walt, for i can't think of another word for it. and so lam of is more of it, i've known more, it's in his big ambitious projects over the years, but this takes the cake to getting a tomorrow over marvelous lahoma. so i know, i hope you don't 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 in i knew a legal oh and we have some new ideas, glow from harvey influenced by our experience and staging the 1st exhibition and the feeling space evokes weakling, off of who it takes time to get a feeling for a space in the blister put all via or, and,

or 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 oval, even at a storm astellas. oh is it i told him of stilton come with the association is already meeting with pastor les gorski 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 at strong, creating a large space with lots of light, but also protection from the sun. the members of the association are one over upon so and, and why it's in the, in the recent exhibition with march, we saw that having that light from above was quite lovely in this ultimate diminished for little. so the idea of glass roof is back on the table last i called to muffin. beetles is all of them to the one on this tower window here. and right now its brick top is and since 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 that, and we have these 2 long rolls, but still have light coming in here with the angle. we won't put class in the to entrance doors. oh, so that lie can also enter from that list going and they'll match the glass roof cancelled soon. deposit that. so get some of this. also an open space plan which to

be has came up with. that's the original wasn't sources. unders will spring measure it up. it's not mine. i've made a new one because we agreed we should have a bit more green space ballade. so we're cutting down on the paved area as often as a plug to stick the fastest. replace 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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