„In the „buntes BUCHholz“ you now find an interim result, which shows the current status of our project with you for Buchholz. I was very happy about the enquiry of Isabelle in November 2020, to perform a common project in the neighbourhood Buchholz. Step by step, the idea of a book, representing the colourful life and diversity in Buchholz, was developed, picturing your various personal contributions!

Talking to another, meeting somebody at eye level, telling and reporting to each other about the life in Buchholz and surrounding. The Covid pandemy challenged us, to find other ways and possibilities than the personal reunion from face to face. This is how the idea for this brochure or homepage was developing.

For me, there also is an emphasis on the exchange with people with different cultural and religious imprintings. I experience these conversations and encounters over and over again as an invitation, to get to know other ways of thinking and living; seeing the self from a new perspective and gratifying on many similarities, independently on the own imprintings. I personally feel this as a great enrichment.
In order to not let be language barriers the reason of a lack of encounters, we had the conviction to have a translation of the people’s contribution in different languages, starting with English. For the translation I would like to thank Angela Ascheberg.
With regard to other acknowledgements, I agree with Isabelle – the people in and around Buchholz are the heart of this project, which would just not exist without their commitments.
My warmest thanks to you for that!”