{"id":66543,"date":"2023-07-19T12:26:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T12:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kulturaktiv.org\/?p=66543"},"modified":"2023-09-11T16:43:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:43:03","slug":"visit-to-neues-volkshaus-cotta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulturaktiv.org\/en\/visit-to-neues-volkshaus-cotta\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to Neues Volkshaus Cotta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Text: Rosa Hauch<\/em> \u00b7 Photos: Yvonn Spauschus<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026and another Cuba Libre for choirmaster Nico\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is that Metallica? A cool interpretation. Let’s sing sees itself as a modern concert choir. Impressive, and the tour schedule until 2024 is already on the website. Black choir clothes, about 25 golden scarves, new technology and the invitation to all guests of the public choir rehearsal to collect a lot of plus points. Five plus points – direct admission, promises Nico M\u00fcller. Five minus points – see headline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The health of the humorous and committed choir director of the ensemble Let’s sing is very important to me. That’s why I keep looking around. The New People’s House on Hebbelstra\u00dfe has a history of around 100 years to tell. Changing owners, changing systems. But the idea always remained similar – come and talk to neighbours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former Richard G\u00e4rtner House, built in 1929, had been empty since 2016. A pity about so much space for creativity, meeting and relaxation. The city of Dresden also saw it that way and advertised a ground lease for 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hello, dear ones<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Konglomerat e.V. has been awarded the contract with its concept. Now a pilot phase is running for three years, I learn from Anna. 30 years is a long time if you want to design a concept for it, 30 years is the minimum to experience whether a district concept is sustainable, is accepted and is filled with life by the residents out of themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The trained geographer from G\u00f6ttingen took care of the community, communication and togetherness during the start-up phase. “My favourite thing is to organise entertaining events for the neighbours,” she says. Bingo evenings, getting into conversation with each other – that’s what neighbourliness is all about. Fishheads don’t talk, my ass. Before Anna moves to Bremen to live with her parents, it’s time to put this prejudice to rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex, the caretaker, is responsible for clearing out, putting away and tidying up. And he has a lot to do. All the rooms of the co-working space are habitable. The use is carefully separated into public, private and commercial. Private parties are facilitated by Gerd Weber’s Feiermanufaktur, ceramics workshop, yoga, choir rehearsals, exhibitions and other activities through Konglomerat e.V.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyone can paint<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Tiesler has proven it and only started relatively late in life. He has only been drawing and painting since he retired. Although the studied labour scientist has a family background in art and always had his grade 1 in drawing, there was never time for creativity in his busy working life as a company director and educator. Since 2007, he has been making up for all that and has already painted around 500 pictures. The tulip painting is his first picture. But it was followed by many, many landscapes. “These are impressions from my holidays and hikes in France, Switzerland, Austria and of course here from the surrounding area. I take photos, rasterise them and start painting the landscapes.” At the Volkshaus, there is a “Seniors for Cotta” project. They read and paint together and anyone who wants to start should start with very simple motifs, such as vases or cups, advises Peter Tiesler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And this is what the people of Cotta expect from Volkshaus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jessica Hofmann is evaluating wishes and expectations for the new district centre for her doctoral thesis on the transformation of municipal processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Well, first of all I would like us to find good and suitable tenants who fit in well with the Volkshaus in human terms and also in general.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“And, of course, if everyone participates and helps to take care of the whole thing.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“And it gets around here that this is a nice, open and warm place where everyone is welcome.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What to add to that? Nothing else matters! (metallica, 1992)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More information<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neues Volkshaus Cotta<\/strong><\/a>
Hebbelstra\u00dfe 35b \u00b7 01157 Dresden
Mail: mitmachen@neuesvolkshaus.de<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dresdner Nachbarschaften – sichtbar, vernetzt, engagiert!<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Neighbourhoods are everywhere – we are right in the middle of it. With district walks, conversations in the green, creative workshops, exhibitions and much more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Period<\/strong>
05-12.2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project coordination<\/strong>
Yvonn Spauschus<\/a> (project management)
Yulia Vishnichenko \u00b7 Moussa Mbarek<\/a> \u00b7<\/strong> Nadine W\u00f6lk<\/a> \u00b7<\/strong> Nazanin Zandi<\/a> (workshop leader)
Rosa Brockelt<\/a> \u00b7<\/strong> Rosa Hauch<\/a> \u00b7<\/strong> Falk Goernert<\/a> (moderation and documentation)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cooperation partners<\/strong>
Club Passage \/ JugendKunstschule Dresden<\/a> \u00b7<\/strong> Omse e.V.<\/a> \u00b7<\/strong> Chinesisch Deutsches Zentrum e.V.<\/a> \u00b7<\/strong> Treffpunkt Prohlis \/ Malteser Hilfsdienst e.V.<\/a> \u00b7<\/strong> Stadtteilverein Johannstadt e.V.<\/a> \u00b7<\/strong> Neues Volkshaus Cotta \/ Konglomerat e.V.<\/a> \u00b7<\/strong> Montagscaf\u00e9 \/ Staatsschauspiel Dresden<\/a> \u00b7<\/strong> Freizeitclub \/ Lebenshilfe Dresden e.V.<\/a> \u00b7<\/strong> Quartiersmanagement Prohlis<\/a>, Johannstadt<\/a> und Gorbitz<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Supported by<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The project is funded by the State Ministry for Social Affairs and Social Cohesion. This measure is co-financed with tax funds on the basis of the budget passed by the Saxon state parliament within the framework of the state programme Integrative Ma\u00dfnahmen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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It’s Saturday morning, half of Dresden is closed because another World War II bomb has to be defused. It has been drizzling lightly for 48 hours. But in the rooms of the old, New People’s House in Cotta, the good-humour sun shines through the Dresden neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[988],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-neighbourhood-reports"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturaktiv.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturaktiv.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturaktiv.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturaktiv.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturaktiv.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kulturaktiv.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68929,"href":"https:\/\/kulturaktiv.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66543\/revisions\/68929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturaktiv.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturaktiv.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturaktiv.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturaktiv.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}