For 40 years, plans have been in place for the A49 motorway. The final section is now, according to the plans of the governing coalition in Hesse, formed by the Greens and the CDU, to be constructed through an intact water protection area and a valuable beech–oak mixed forest, the Dannenröder Forest.
All available scientific evidence speaks against the project; an alternative proposal is already on the table.
At a time of climate crisis, when far-reaching and fundamentally different decisions are urgently needed, political decision-makers must be challenged to reconsider this course. The resistance is growing.
What is needed is a lesson for politics and business.
We consider ourselves the educators and provide this “extra tuition”:
through our art intervention, through dialogue, through aid deliveries to the activists on site—and, above all, through our art.
Once again, I was taken into police custody.
Well, I suspect the police officers’ ears are still ringing today, because for four hours straight I spoke to them as:
“Prof. Dr. Dr. Friedrich Helge Kronenberg Hommes.”
We think that although there was no fee and the stage happened to be the interior of a police transport van—with a rather limited audience of five people, all wearing the same unflattering uniform and displaying a conspicuously high educational deficit—
the lesson seems to have made an impression.
