EISENBAHNSTRASZE 2019 (2019)

The legendary Eisenbahnstraße in the east of Leipzig thwarts a social hotspot, which is said to suffer from strong structural and social neglect.

At the same time, however, a multitude of socio-cultural projects and spaces have emerged, such as Give-Away-Shops, community gardens, adventure playgrounds and project spaces, which, with their vegetable patches, jam sessions, workshops and VoKus, try out other forms of coexistence and invite others to take part in this form of social life and to participate in this subculture.

The project Eisenbahnstraße 2019, together with such local initiatives and the participating children and adolescents, creates an audioguide for the Eisenbahnstraße, which will acoustically explore the centers of this other life, which is not always directly accessible to the public.

The Eisenbahnstraße and it's and subcultural places of life are beeing explored from the perspective of adolescents in order to undermine conventional listening habits and to train awareness and perceptiveness. This is how we collect sounds and stories and develop an audio tour that also has a positive effect on the diversity and heterogeneity of the living hood Eisenbahnstraße..