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| The Rhine-Main area is one of the wealthiest regions in Germany. Nevertheless, it seems that in recent years a growing number of undercover housing has sprouted and “Schreber” garden colonies have slowly mutated. One would expect this condition rather in the metropolis of Berlin, a place still cheaper to live in than most cities of the Rhine-Main area. Frankfurt is one clean place where almost all evidence of an inventive low-end survival is erased from the city. Only in the outskirts – rarely visited by travellers and tourists, different forms of life than the ones prescribed by the prevalent consumerist, pseudoeuropean social agenda can be observed. It is there, along highly travelled railway lines or graffiti-laden highway overpasses – in plain view – that we may encounter not all too clearly pronounced dreams of real freedom, defined by dilapidated shacks, awkward scarecrow (or should we say scareman?) figures, various poultry and mammals feeding on what looks like waste, or mysterious trespassers carrying plastic containers on their bicycles. If it was not for these spots of an “unspoiled depravity”, one might have already given up hope for the last bits of passive resistance in a living space ever so increasingly dominated by material values. |
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