ENDLAND TEIL II

ENDLAND is an interdisciplinary, decentralized, com- municative and participatory series of two scenic in- terventions and three site-specific visual art projects at a total of five locations in the Thuringian region. Three parts of this round dance are curated by the ACC Galerie Weimar and can be found in this catalog under the art section, the other two scenic interven- ing projects by Thuringian authors are contributed by the Kunstfest Weimar and are presented on this page. Until mid-July, an open call will be launched, inviting all citizens to nominate abandoned places throughout Thuringia. The participating artists will choose one of these places and develop artistic visions for the future, either alone or in collaboration with citizens. More information on the project will be available online from mid-August and in the Kunstfest's supporting program flyer, which will be published for the festival. It will not be possible to visit the sites independently, but only as part of the bus tours already announced here.

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Short biographies of the participating artists

Antje Horn

A place that is left to itself does not die. It transforms and develops a life of its own. Narratives also have such a life of their own. However, they do not stay in one place, they are always on the move, cross national borders and oceans, and sound different everywhere. The storyteller Antje Horn tells long-forgotten stories in abandoned places in Thuringia. She travels with her audience from the past to the present and offers glimpses of a possible future. She turns the familiar upside down, lets the soft defeat the hard and the impossible become reality. Antje Horn lives in Jena. She tells stories freely, with hands, feet, heart and mind, on big stages, in small cafés, in schools, at hospital bedsides, on the street, in castles, in the forest, in cemeteries ... everywhere where good stories are needed. Her stories are beautiful, whimsical, evocative, connecting and sometimes true.

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Martin Knuth

The freelance writer from Jena takes us to rural areas at the intersection of nature and culture. Decommis- sioned military training grounds, abandoned quarries, and gleaming solar fields become settings for unexpected encounters. Martin Knuth studied philosophy in Jena and Krakow, was a prize winner of the Young Literature Forum Hesse-Thuringia and the "poet/bewegt" competition. In 2019 he won the scholarship "Raniser Debüt", through which he published the short story collection »Zwischenhalt Erde« in 2020. In 2021 he received a special scholarship from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Thuringia, and in 2022 the Thuringian Literature Scholarship "Harald Gerlach". He is a fellow of the Bavarian Academy of Writing in the year 2022/2023.