The Gardens of Yesterday. 54 min. Language: German. A dystopic fairytale on the future of gardening…. after the LSD riots of 2090. By Gabi Schaffner. More information: HR2 Info.

The sound material stems from field recordings made during the project “Compost and Poesis. 100 Days of Datscharadio” in Giessen, Hessia, 2014. Datscharadio expresses once again its greatest thanks to  Ingke Günther and Jörg Wagner of “gärtnerpflichten Giessen”, Herrn Holzapfel (Office of Hessian literature) and all participating guests and artists.

“Gärten von Gestern” was prompted by Pit Schultz. For their  untiring encouragement,  use of work space and important help I would  like to thank  Mathias Deutsch, Nathalie Grenzhaueser and Dirk Hülstrunk. Special cheers to Mathias Scheliga for all those test readings and to all other friends who supported me through their talks, councel, literature and their voices!