{"id":5303,"date":"2025-01-16T11:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T10:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/?p=5303"},"modified":"2025-02-12T09:48:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T08:48:19","slug":"lost-places-rails-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/lost-places-rails-tell","title":{"rendered":"Lost Places: Rails tell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A bright birch grove and a disused railway site somewhere in Chemnitz \u2013 in <a href=\"https:\/\/entangelments.de\/en\/zusammen-entlang-der-roten-spur-together-along-the-read-trace\">2021<\/a> , this was the place where we from Fraktalwerk took the risk of doing our own thing and working together in four performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three-and-a-half years later, a new project has emerged. &#8220;Schienen erz\u00e4hlen&#8221; (Rails telling stories) is a new contibution to the long-running project &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/lost-places-i-hallo\">Lost Places<\/a>.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Schienen erz\u00e4hlen I Lost Places\" width=\"747\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OdgO20ga764?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sup>\u00a9 Fraktalwerk<\/sup> <sup>(Sorry, German language only, Translation of the reading below)<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sitting on the disused railway tracks, the narrator, Marlen Wagner, listens to the stories they are telling. Suddenly, a phone rings and a voice invites her to tell the rails a story &#8211; the story of the Tremayne family&#8217;s gardens in Cornwall. Lost, resurrected and reawakened as the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x_jswXk7cl8\">Lost Gardens of Heligan<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0A shifting story that the rails now carry out and those who know how to listen can hear &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation of the reading<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&nbsp;just got a phone call and there was a voice telling me to tell a story that is&nbsp;carried on by these disused tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;England, in the far south-west, in Cornwall, there lies a garden. This garden&nbsp;was owned for centuries by the Tremayne family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;1914 everything changed. In 1914, all 22 gardeners went off together to fight&nbsp;in the First World War for whatever, and none came back.&nbsp;The family lost because&nbsp;of what happened a lot of money. They kept their property, but could no longer&nbsp;&#8211; cultivate the garden. There were&nbsp;no more gardeners either. It was not only&nbsp;these gardeners who did not return. So the garden decayed, wild rhododendrons&nbsp;grew into the sky&nbsp;&#8211; and it became a jungle. The garden was abandoned, the house&nbsp;sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many&nbsp;many years later, in the 1980s, a descendant of the family came back and&nbsp;thought the garden deserved a second chance. He didn&#8217;t&nbsp;talk about the house. He&nbsp;came with a friend, a musician, and together they both looked for &#8211; garden&nbsp;architects with whom they could &#8211; redo&nbsp;the garden, which consisted of manymany&nbsp;smaller gardens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And&nbsp;indeed, ten years later, these gardens were reopened &#8211; and they were given the&nbsp;name &#8220;The Lost Gardens of Heligan&#8221;. &#8211; At the moment&nbsp;of their revival&nbsp;or their reopening, they were called the lost ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These&nbsp;gardens, by their name, are a constant reminder &#8211; of what was, of what was&nbsp;lost, of what could be resurrected, and of what will&nbsp;remain. At least that is&nbsp;what everyone thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;2020, during the first lockdown, all gardeners were dismissed, the gardens&nbsp;gates closed and again nature made its space and overgrew&nbsp;beds, trees even the&nbsp;rhododendron grew up again very quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And&nbsp;again the gardeners went to war, only this time against bureaucracy, ignorance,&nbsp;laws. And they won. Three months later, they were back&nbsp;in their gardens. As&nbsp;volunteers of a project that primarily restored the vegetable beds and&nbsp;distributed the harvested vegetables to needy&nbsp;families in the area. Of course,&nbsp;they also took care of the entire garden.&nbsp;Gardeners are&nbsp;just like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;2021, in the second lockdown, there was only three months of closure. And then&nbsp;everything was reopened. And since then the gardens&nbsp;have been running. And&nbsp;visitors come and enjoy them and we all hope that it will be forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because&nbsp;lost places carry something in them that brings them back to life again and&nbsp;again. It is not necessarily the same as it was before,&nbsp;but it is always the&nbsp;chance of something new. So the Lost Gardens of Heligan always remind us of what&nbsp;has been, what was lost, what will&nbsp;be, and what is right now. For it is in this&nbsp;moment that we live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even at a time when talking about\u00a0trees is almost a crime because it involves keeping silent about so many\u00a0misdeeds. But it is our time, our\u00a0moment. And we are living in this very\u00a0moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marlen Wagner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bright birch grove and a disused railway site somewhere in Chemnitz, a story, a dance \u2013 a new project in the long-term project &#8220;Lost Places&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landart-en","category-lost-places-en-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraktalwerk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}