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Datscha Radio

2019,

2012

Initiative

datscharadio.de

Nachtgärtnern II: Fragrances & Frequencies, 2019, Foto: Helen Thein

Gabi Schaffner, On Air. Die Datscha und das Radio, 2018, Foto: Gabi Schaffner

Art is what brought me and many thousands to the city of Berlin. Berlin, and all its changes, is art.Marktorientierung spielt für mich keine Rolle, mich interessiert entweder ein spezielles Thema und dazu lade ich Künstler*innen ein oder ich erarbeite mit Künstler*innen und anderen Gruppen spartenübergreifende neue Konzepte.For many decades Berlin has developed a lively, diverse, and independent way of producing culture and counteracting government decisions, based on, local, generous, and enthusiastic, but also worried, social communities that exchanged resources and ideas within a larger political debate. The city became a “natural” shelter and fertile environment for dissidents, artists, political refugees, and immigrants with any background also due to the need to overcome a traumatic past full of human generated atrocities that are still present in people memories and behaviour.