sproutmovie

Finally we are able to post a link to Ricardo´s Sproutbau Movie. You can watch it here.

die kleingeldprinzessin im lagerhaus

Die Kleingeldprinzessin im Wehrschloss, Juli 2007
PHOTO CREDIT: DANIEL SCHNIER

Letztes Jahr hatten wir das große Glück, dass die Kleingeldprinzessin (Support Lenasingt und Ich und mein Tiger) großzügigerweise für den Sproutbau ein Soli-Konzert gegeben hat. Der Abend war ein voller Erfolg - und ohne diese finanzielle Starthilfe hätten wir es anfangs wesentlich schwerer gehabt.

Wir freuen uns daher, dass Dota jetzt wieder nach Bremen kommt! Für alle die sie gerne wiedersehen wollen und für alle die sie damals verpasst haben, die Kleingeldprinzessin tritt am Freitag, dem 18.4. um 20.00 Uhr im Lagerhaus auf.

movie screening at kurzschluss

Sproutbau Movie - a film by Ricardo Cedeño Montaña.

During the summer of 2007 the Sproutbau project brought life to an empty multi-storey building doomed for demolition. Artists, architects, visionaries and creative people of all kinds moved into the 110 apartment units to realize their ideas around alternative living, intentional communities and visual arts. When Ricardo Cedeño Montaña heard about the project he decided to follow the work and life of some of the participants with a film camera. This coming weekend the finished movie will be publicly screened for the first time.

Joined by the project team and some active members of the Sproutbau, Ricardo will be present to receive questions - and of course applause. A discussion about the movie, Sproutbau and upcoming projects will be made possible after the screening.

Where: Kurzschluss, Lahnstraße 16, Neustadt
Time: 12.4. um 20.00 Uhr

welcome to earth!

This cute earthling is Friedemann, aka Bärbel. He finally managed to emerge from the safe womb of his mother and is just as friendly as his name suggests. He was born on March 12th at 9.13 PM after a cesarian. Meike is doing well and looks, even after all the stress, just radiant. We congratulate the parents, the grandmothers and grandfathers and the grand grandfather, who came to hospital today to see what 1/8 part is of his.

Both, Meike and Friedemann, need to stay at the hospital for 4 to 6 days. You can go and visit if you like. They are at the Diako, in Gröpelingen.

rubble

ALL PHOTOS BY: PATRICIA LAMBERTUS

Over the weekend of February 16/17th Linda stopped by in Bremen to pick up her paintings. Together we went to see the remains of the Sproutbau. There was little left but a huge field of rubbles, which was especially sad for Linda, as she had hoped to get an idea of what the building looked like and where her paintings were installed.



We climbed over the many stones to the one room that fiercefully kept standing. To our surprise this was also the only room we never could get into while the Sproutbau was still alive and standing.



There were tables and chairs in the secret room. And someone had left a scarf. Now the only thing still unrevealed is whether there existed 7 hidden storage rooms in the basement that were full of collected items. Some rumors just have to live on...

sprout reunion

ALL PHOTOS BY: DANIEL SCHNIER

On Saturday 19th a group of Sproutfarmers gathered to take a look at the rubbles of Sproutbau. It was an eerie sight seing the building have standing, half in debris.



Despite the surrounding fence we could get in easily. The garden and garage were all gone, as well as house 46 and part of house 48.



The have ripped off the white asbesto pannels from the walls, they have etched out the floor tiles. All asbesto crab was collected in huge white plastic bags.



Still you could walk up all the floors. What you see on the photo above is the seventh floor, coming right out of the stairway. To the right is Mr. Dohm´s old apartment, while to the left you see this hole into what has formerly been the café.



A group of us then visited Mr. Dohms in his new apartment. He has settled in now, but believes to be fully ready with everything around Easter. He promised to hold an Easter party. By then all the remains of Sproutbau will have be gone.

last resident out

Sproutbau´s last resident has finally left the broken palace and moved into his new flat. The past month he had spent there without any comfort of hot water and radiation, but with almost nightly visitors roaming the building in search for useful materials. Buten & Binnen had a report on it last Tuesday. You can watch it here. Scroll all the way down!

Also here is a newspaper clip from the Bremer Anzeiger. My favorite part is this little snippet:

He gained new hope through an art project in September . Architects and artists turned his building into the "Sproutbau" so that life was returning. "Those were really great young people", says Dohms. "They should have established a students´hostel way earlier..."

Students´hostel... :) ... oh well... we love you Mr. Dohms! Keep up the spirit!