Art meets church
With the project "Strengthening digital storytelling - art meets church", we are taking the annual theme 2024 Church in the Oderbruch as an opportunity to build up a digitally available collection of meaningful objects and data on the ten churches in the Oderbruch that are part of the Oderbruch Cultural Heritage Network as cultural heritage sites and to strengthen the skills for digital storytelling and production together with stakeholders from our networks on the basis of this digitally available pool of material. On this page we present some of the project results.
The experience gained from this and other projects in the area of our digital museum work will be incorporated into a digital strategy for the Oderbruchmuseum, which we are developing as part of the "Strengthening digital storytelling - art meets church" project.
The sound of bells in the churches of the Oderbruch Cultural Heritage Network
The ringing of the church bells is an acoustic signature of the Oderbruch landscape and each bell has a story attached to it. We have recorded these traces and, thanks to the work of LandLab, have created a recording, a picture and a short text for each bell of the heritage churches. In the digital archive of the Oderbruch Museum, the Oderbruchpavillon, these files are organized according to the churches under https://archiv.oderbruchmuseum.de/kirchen/ callable.
Photos and texts of selected objectsthat tell something about the special history of the churches can also be found on these pages. The pictures by Alex Schirmer and the texts by Lars Fischer were created in collaboration with people who are committed to these churches. They are linked to the museum.digital platform and supplement the collection of objects on the Oderbruch available there.
In three workshops we have tried to strengthen forms of digital storytelling in the Oderbruch region. In the villages of Neutornow and Sietzing, two short films were created together with the parishes, accompanied by filmmaker Johanna Ickert, which provide an insight into parish life. In Neutornow, an audio tour has also been created to give all visitors an understanding of the village church. The films and the tour can be found on the church websites.
The third workshop at St. Mary's Church in Wriezen was experimental. Together with young people and Nora Scholz from the Oderbruch Museum's education team, media specialists Stefan List, Jakob Rüdrich and Johanna Ickert created four special digital game ideas. They invited various partners to bring along objects and stories about the heritage churches. The result is a digital carpet that only reveals its stories when people walk on it and make contact, a drawing table on which people can search for stories by drawing, a keyboard game about the history of the organ in the church in Wriezen and a magic cube that, depending on which side it is turned, calls up 3D simulations of objects and the corresponding story.
These digital game ideas were presented on August 3 in Wriezen as the start of a bicycle tour to churches in the Oderbruch and can be seen and experienced again on October 5 in the Oderbruch Museum.
The project "Strengthening digital storytelling - art meets church" was funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg.
