Poets, journalists and protest speakers have been moving to Wendland in Lower Saxony since the 1970s. Jan Peter Bremer talks about their milieu from the perspective of the artist child he was.
At the beginning of the 1970s, a group of young artists moved from the island of West Berlin to the remote Wendland, that then still unknown province on the border with the GDR, with the Elbe as a river that protected the other side from lifting with barbed wire and shooting ranges. One of the first to move to this area was Uwe Bremer, a highly regarded painter at the time, someone who was able to make a comfortable living from his art and who probably also illustrated this exceptional economic status with an upscale lifestyle. In addition to an Amish sleigh, this included a former robber baron’s estate, Gümse Castle near the district town of Dannenberg.