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Aino Stratemann (*1965) is a freelance artist, part of the artists’ network Interarte and the studio community creative cooperative at Schokoladen Berlin. She lives in Buckow, in Märkische Schweiz.

She works both craft-supporting and freelance for performing and visual arts, for film, theatre and interventions in public space. She trained as a carpenter with further training in theatre painting at the Opera National in Bordeaux.

She performed and built with Teatro de los Sentidos in Berlin, Naples, Amsterdam and Munich (1999 to 2005), “Give a Way”, Deutsche Oper, Berlin (2015), worked for several film productions in set design, including “Poll” (2009) in Estonia. She creates installations in cooperation with artistic, social and political initiatives, including the kitchen radio for “Radiorevolten” in Halle (2005) or the radio installation “Radio Heini” at HDW Heinersdorf, Brandenburg (2019). She develops vertical and mobile garden modules and the installation “walking trees” (2017) for the initiative “Stadt macht satt” and the FU Berlin (2021).

Since 2004 she has been working as an independent artist in cultural education, since 2017 at the youth art school FriX-Berg , Berlin. In 2020, her first local history book project “Mario Magonio, Tagebuch einer Gefangenschaft”, was published in Buckow (Märkische Schweiz).

 

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Ratsinformationen für den Alltagsgebrauch (Council information for everyday use)

Podcasts for the participation of citizens in local political decision-making processes

Artist, activist and radio producer Aino Stratemann plans to work with citizens of the Steinhöfel municipality to create five short podcasts on local political resolutions and current political debates. What is important that is decided? Why are there non-public parts of the meetings? What are long-term issues that recur and affect everyone? News from neighbors* for neighbors*.

"As a Landschwärmerin for a year, I'm trying to find a new format in Heinersdorf that will allow the local community to get an overview of local political issues.

Part of the idea is to go through the local council minutes posted on the council information system, and conduct interviews on as many of the issues raised there as possible with the people who brought up or pushed those items. The other part of the idea is to find a good way to make those interviews easily audible and accessible to anyone interested.

In the big picture, this is one of many attempts to break down barriers to democratic participation. From an artistic point of view, I would like to emphasize that I think it is important to reduce the fear of unprofessionalism and to strengthen the trust in respectful interaction. I would like to sincerely thank everyone I met during this project, especially because they gave the impression of having a sincere interest in respectful engagement."