STUDIO URBANISTAN: “BALANCE”
An audio walk through the garden city

Based on the ideas of social reform at the beginning of the 20th century, the first German garden city was intended to harmoniously combine living and working, education and culture. A great idea. A social synthesis of the arts. Living and working in harmony.

What is left of it over 100 years later? Where does the myth live on? In the stories of the residents? In their way of life? In the architecture, the urban space? And what does a good life mean to us today? What about our work-life balance? Rhythmic balance? Balancing on the edge? Or free falling with every step? Guided by a voice, the audience - equipped with mp3 players and headphones - explores the winding paths and architectural testimonies of the neighborhood.

In search of their own BALANCE, the participants encounter the individual stories of the residents, talking garden fences and the sounds of the neighborhood that set the pace.

The mp3 players and headphones can be borrowed from the visitor center during the opening hours listed below.

About STUDIO URBANISTAN

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Photo: Anja Schneider

STUDIO URBANISTAN is a label for performative incidents in urban space and stands for the collaborative works of Clara Minckwitz and Julia Lehmann. At the interface of built realities and hidden themes, STUDIO URBANISTAN has been creating new spaces of experience and encounter between audio tour, site-specific performance and research theater in collaboration with changing artists, producers, performers and/or the local population since 2014. In 2020, STUDIO URBANISTAN was a fellow of the RELOAD program of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. In 2022, SU received a residency grant as part of the #TakeHeart program. In 2022/23 SU is in the Artist Development Program of LOFFT - DAS THEATER and part of the FREISCHWIMMEN platform.

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Cast & Credits

Artistic directionSTUDIO URBANISTAN (Julia Lehmann & Clara Minckwitz) 
Concept & ResearchJulia Lehmann, Clara Minckwitz, Sofia Dona & Nicolas Schneider
Sound Design & EditingNicolas Schneider, Clara Minckwitz
NarratorAnna-Katharina Muck
Voices from/about HellerauGizem Aksu, Robert Badura & Claudia Dietze, Sofia Dona, Jutta Dyrchs, Heike Flamm & Raimund Lekscha, Sabine Heimann, Anette Hellmuth, Kai Kaden, Kerstin Hartmann, Children of the 84th Primary School Dresden "In der Gartenstadt", Katrin Meinig, Ingrid Pritzkow, Maria Poyiadji-Fink, Tanja Prohl & Tobias Günther, Dirk Wand, Sophie Wolfrum
Architectural voicesJulia Lehmann, Clara Minckwitz, Nicolas Schneider
Thanks toBürgerzentrum Waldschänke Hellerau e.V., Deutsche Werkbund Sachsen e.V., Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau, Festspielhaus team HELLERAU, Verein Bürgerschaft Hellerau e.V.

BALANCE is a co-production of STUDIO URBANISTAN and HELLERAU - European Centre for the Arts. Funded by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. This programme is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon state parliament.