No space, no social system and no individual is without an environment - there is always a counterpart and neighbors who limit and structure one's own scope for action. Whether this gives rise to productive or destructive impulses is a matter of shaping relationships. This circumstance becomes tangible in rural areas - and especially in the Oderbruch - in various ways. This allows perspectives on several levels:
First of all, there is the simple neighborhood in the villages, which ranges from neighborly help to neighborly conflict. This perspective expands from the bilateral relationship at the garden fence to the entire village community. The fate of the villages, which once formed socio-economic systems and today, at best, live as open and friendly neighborhoods, is thus touched upon.
In the course of the regionalization of the rupture, which requires a strengthening of the spatial horizon, intercommunal relationships come into focus. Does a good communal family emerge through neighborly interactions and do old boundaries dissolve in the process? How vital are the new entities and who still tends to think in terms of the boundaries of the old neighborhoods, such as the northern and southern Oderbruch?
Brandenburg's special relationship with Berlin gives rise to a complex form of neighborhood. On the one hand, this refers to the relationship between the neighboring federal states as well as a genuinely rural and a metropolitan area. On the other hand, the view from here also goes back to the direct relationships between "old-established" and "newcomers" or "newcomers".
A particularly important dimension of the neighborhood arises from the border location with neighboring Poland. New relationships have grown here, but there are also still neighborly differences and linguistic and political barriers. How will this neighborhood develop and what synergies and dynamics are emerging here?
We would like to explore these and other facets of the neighborhood theme as an annual topic in 2025.
Preparations will begin with a think tank on May 15 from 5 p.m. at the Golzow Film Museum. Project proposals including a financing plan can be sent by post or email by September 13, 2024 to
Municipal Working Group Cultural Heritage Oderbruch
Coordination Office
c/o Museum Society Altranft e.V.
Schneiderstr. 18
16259 Bad Freienwalde OT Altranft
info@kulturerbe-oderbruch.de
If you have any questions about the tender, please contact:
Lars Fischer
03344 1553900
l.fischer@oderbruchmuseum.de
Here you will find the application form in three file formats:
You are not bound by these templates.
Here you will find the results of the think tank, the call for partner projects on the annual theme 2025 SUSTAINABILITY and the current funding principles.
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The partner projects are made possible by the cultural fund of the Kommunale Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kulturerbe Oderbruch.
