Fragment No. 29

Carpet fragment #29 came to Leipzig and became part of my writing process. 

Around the same time, I had already written a pop song called Lava. In one verse, the line “alte Räume werden neu” (old spaces become new) appears. The song deals with shifts in form and meaning: what was fixed begins to move, what was familiar rearranges itself, and fragments take on new roles. Change is approached as a process that can be painful, but also liberating, opening up new possibilities.

While working on these themes, I was reminded of CulturalxCollabs. I decided to keep the text fragment “alte Räume werden neu” (old spaces become new) as a refrain and write new alternative verses inspired by the carpet fragment and its history. There are now two text versions of the same song. The CulturalxCollabs version connects the ongoing reconfiguration of the carpet fragment with the restructuring of the Pergamonmuseum.

At the same time, the song functions as a form of translation — not between languages, but from an existing German-language text into a new German-language text, using one unchanged fragment to create something new. I am currently still looking for a title for the CulturalxCollabs version. Any ideas?

The song was recorded in summer 2025 at Echo Luz Studio in Leipzig and will be released in 2026.