Coal - Steam - Light
Following the tracks of Industrial Culture. After industry: Nature & Culture.
From Opencast Mines to Lakes Seen and Excavators as Sources of Music.
Industrial culture as adventure: it’s brown coal that once dominated the area between Wittenberg and Bitterfeld and ruled it’s fate for almost a century. Where there was brown coal, there were masses of earth moved, villages destroyed, rivers transferred. Brown coal gave rise to industrialization, mining, power stations, chemical industry, and movie production. The world’s first fertilizer and the world’s first color movie – the region spawned both. The first half of the 20th century, the Bauhaus and the Junker works in Dessau testify to the dawning of the industrial modernism. In 1990 the region was considered as the former GDR’s ecologic disaster area; today, after intensive redevelopment work and the strong commitment of many, the area takes pride in hosting interesting exhibitions in former power stations and industrial plants. Opencast mines were turned into leisure areas with crystal-clear lakes. FERROPOLIS is the name of city made of iron where gigantic excavators, the dinosaurs of the industrial age, rest on a peninsula at the former Golpa-Nord mine to form an arena serving as location for all kinds of concerts from rock to classical. From industrial culture to culture industry – another way to describe the change.
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