In the animated film workshop with Mathide Scholz and Johanna Ickert at Boberhaus Letschin, young people develop their very own narrative of the past. For example, they investigate why there are ditches instead of swamps in the Oderbruch today and why this region has always attracted settlers from different regions. In the midst of these historical topics, the kids discover their own stories and create a film using stop-motion technology. And they think big: whole blocks of plasticine ice melt and form the landscape of the Oderbruch, a drawn chicken saves itself on a church tower during a flood, and so on and so forth. And the work is not only visual: in the audio station, the young people slip into different roles: an engineer who manages the dyke construction, a new settler who is deprived of his rights and lots of animals are also involved. "I think I'm really into voice acting!" echoes through the room on the second day.
At the end of the project week, a small premiere was celebrated in the Boberhaus.
The kids received the background information for these stories during a visit to the Letschin Heimatstube. As a cultural heritage site, it was on hand to answer questions about the content of the project, which was sponsored by the KAG Kulturerbe-Oderbruch.
