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Die RuhrgebietsSpatzen

©Daniel Sadrowski

The RuhrgebietsSpatzen are Pani Kostka & Mercedes Tuccini. The glamorous entertainment duo from the Ruhr area. Their hearts beat for Schlager!
As Jonas Leifert, Mercedes Tuccini initiates and curates artistic projects that historically address current social issues from the perspective of the Ruhr region. In addition to the entertainment culture of the Ruhr coal district around 1900, he is currently particularly interested in air pollution with environmental and health movements in the 1970s.
Pani Kostka, also known as Julia Nitschke, works as a performance artist, curator and writer, focusing on political memory in queer-feminist and familial post-eastern contexts. She works with Grupa Mauczka on artistic projects on Poland's migration history and questions German memory politics with absurd performances.

Dorsten

The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour. Chroncler in Dorsten is Anna Haifisch.

Dorsten von Anna Haifisch

Illustration by Anna Haifisch: Dorsten street scene featuring the "Dorsten City Markt" sign, a Tipico store, and a handcart of Clubheim Angel u. Sportverein Dorsten e.V. in stylized colors.

© Anna Haifisch

© Anna Haifisch

„Vorbei am Baumarkt und dem geschlossenen Wettbüro, nach zwei schaurigen Eisenbahnbrücken, stand da plötzlich dieser kleine Kohlenwagen mit dem Namen des Angelsportvereins als liebevolle Erinnerung an alte Zeiten. Statt Erz und Kohle lugten ein paar erfrorene Blümchen hervor. Mit dem kleinen Wägelchen wäre ich gern durch Dorsten gerollt, musste aber leider meine kalten Füße benutzen.“ - Anna Haifisch

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Portrait of artist Anna Haifisch, known for her comics and illustrations, wearing a pink beanie and a smiley sweater in front of a blue wall.

© Matthew James Wilson

Anna Haifisch

Anna Haifisch writes and draws comics, works as an illustrator for national and international media and designs print series, posters and design products.

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