"Histories and Stories"

The result is a mul­ti­me­dia expe­ri­ence of the most lov­ing kind: In the list­ed Haus Uck­er­mark, metic­u­lous­ly restored, the small rooms are expand­ed and filled with atmos­phere by Andrée Volk­man­n’s expan­sive murals. The giants are larg­er than life, and the pools with shiv­er­ing fig­ures per­form­ing ​“Hei­dendöp­pen” (hea­then snuff) are seen up close – run­ning through every­thing is the recur­ring inter­est in Ehm Welk’s tra­di­tion­al myths and the asso­ci­at­ed knowl­edge of the ear­ly ​“pagan” his­to­ry of the Uck­er­mark and its inhab­i­tants. The many valu­able aurat­ic exhibits, finds from the region, blend into the images and com­ple­ment the artis­tic inter­pre­ta­tion with the real lev­el of the objec­tive. But noth­ing is more impres­sive and beau­ti­ful than hear­ing texts, and so lis­ten­ing takes cen­ter stage in the exhi­bi­tion. Vis­i­tors are invit­ed to make them­selves com­fort­able in the spe­cial­ly designed lis­ten­ing nich­es and explore and dis­cov­er the world of Mar­tin Gram­bauer. Carsten Gol­beck dra­ma­tized Ehm Welk’s texts espe­cial­ly for this exhi­bi­tion and trans­formed them into vibrant sound­scapes and stim­u­lat­ing audio record­ings. Entire worlds now merge in a mul­ti-sen­so­ry way through the images, exhibits, and the audio expe­ri­ence, all with­in a space of just 225 square meters.

The revi­tal­iza­tion of what was once the city’s best address has not only cre­at­ed a new urban meet­ing place with a library, tourist infor­ma­tion, pub­lic gar­den, and event spaces, but also a live­ly and par­tic­i­pa­to­ry muse­um that bridges the gap between the his­to­ry of the city of Anger­münde and its sur­round­ings, archae­o­log­i­cal finds, and the lit­er­ary oeu­vre of Ehm Welk.