bye bye, aha

it's over. no more hopes.
one of our favourite places here in heidelberg is slowly going towards its sad fate. i think i already mentioned it some time ago. it's called Altes Hallenbad. AHa.
it was a public indoor pool, built in the '20s and closed at the beginning of the '80s. abandoned ever since, until recently some group of artists decided that the place had to be rescued and used and lived and given back to the citizens. so they started a series of dance and theatre shows, to make us people notice the place, to make us realise how beautiful this place is and how it could possibly become a wonderful cultural centre...
and we all believed this was really going to happen, until a month ago it started being clear that the destiny of the place was different, and last week more than clear it became official:

eine markthalle. a shopping mall. as if the thing that's missing in heidelberg are the shops...
sad, disappointed, disbelieved. what else? ten days ago i went to see their last show, which was pretty bitter. and there was everywhere this atmosphere of closing time that kind of hurts a little. tears almost pricking out of the eyes (i know, i'm too emotional) and the weird, uncomfortable feeling that it was the last time we could walk in that space as it is, as it was, as we got to know it...


it's been nice to believe in this place, to dream about it, to even be able to play a little with it (remember my post about the photo exhibition we managed to organise there??)

we are such stuff as dreams are made on,
and our little life is rounded with a sleep

time to wake up now