{"id":9975,"date":"2022-08-11T13:57:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T13:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/unkategorisiert\/no-mans-land-daniel-chatard\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T11:46:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T11:46:10","slug":"daniel-chatard-coal-mining-germany","status":"publish","type":"magazin","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine\/awarded\/daniel-chatard-coal-mining-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"No Man’s Land Daniel Chatard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Between stony fronts.<\/strong> Since 2017, \"\" Daniel Chatard has been photographing the conflict surrounding coal mining in North Rhine-Westphalia in his work \u201cNo Man’s Land\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n \"\"\n \n Manheim-neu, Kerpen \u00a9 Daniel Chatard<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n

In February 2020,<\/strong> residents of the resettlement site \u201cManheim-neu\u201d wait for the passing carnival procession.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"\"\n \n Bedburg, North Rhine-Westphalia \u00a9 Daniel Chatard<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n

Demonstrators of the action alliance<\/strong> \u201cEnde Gel\u00e4nde\u201d evade a police blockade during an action in August 2017 and climb a hill back onto the road.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"\"\n \n Erkelenz, North Rhine-Westphalia \u00a9 Daniel Chatard<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n

In November 2021,<\/strong> the new German government announces its intention to save Keyenberg and four other villages threatened by the Garzweiler II opencast lignite mine. About 80 per cent of the inhabitants had already been relocated by this time.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"\"\n \n Hambacher Forst, Kerpen \u00a9 Daniel Chatard<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n

Activists carry<\/strong> a tree trunk through the forest to build a tree house with it.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"\"\n \n Hambacher Forst, Kerpen \u00a9 Daniel Chatard<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n

\u201cRobin\u201d inhabited<\/strong> the Hambach Forest for several months. Almost no one here knows the others’ real names, so aliases a.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"\"\n \n Hambacher Forst, Kerpen \u00a9 Daniel Chatard<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n

Meanwhile,<\/strong> the Hambach Forest is occupied by dozens of tree houses<\/strong>, the highest at about 25 meters. Almost all tree houses can only be reached by climbing, making them difficult to clear.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n

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You must learn to climb if you want to get into the tree houses.<\/strong> You secure yourself with two loops. Like a caterpillar, you then pull yourself up, piece by piece.<\/p>\n <\/blockquote>\n\n

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\n \"\"\n \n Erkelenz, North Rhine-Westphalia \u00a9 Daniel Chatard<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n

In January 2021,<\/strong> the alliance “Kirche(n) im Dorf lassen” organised a blessing of the houses still standing in L\u00fctzerath. A few months later, RWE will demolish some of them.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"\"\n \n Immerath, North Rhine-Westphalia \u00a9 Daniel Chatard<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n

To expand the Garzweiler open pit mine<\/strong>, the parish church of St. Lambertus, popularly known as \u201cImmerather Dom\u201d, will be demolished in January 2018.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"\"\n \n Erkelenz, North Rhine-Westphalia \u00a9 Daniel Chatard<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n

Marita Dresen is involved in the alliance \u201cAlle D\u00f6rfer bleiben\u201d<\/strong> (All Villages Remain) to preserve the villages threatened by the Garzweiler II open pit mine, whose resettlement began in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"\"\n \n Garzweiler open pit mine, Kerpen \u00a9 Daniel Chatard<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n

Several hundred activists<\/strong> entered the Hambach open pit mine during an action by the \u201cEnde Gel\u00e4nde\u201d action alliance in November 2017.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"\"\n \n Bedburg, North Rhine-Westphalia \u00a9 Daniel Chatard<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n

Police officers carry away<\/strong> a demonstrator after they have surrounded him with hundreds of others in a field in front of the coal railroad tracks. All demonstrators are taken away in buses.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"\"\n \n L\u00fctzerath, Erkelenz \u00a9 Daniel Chatard<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n

Fred and many other local activists <\/strong>are\u00a0fighting to preserve the village of L\u00fctzerath.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"\"\n \n Hochneukirch, North Rhine-Westphalia \u00a9 Daniel Chatard<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n

In the Otzenrath House Museum,<\/strong> Inge Broska, a former village resident, exhibits found objects left behind during the village’s resettlement.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"\"\n \n Manheim-neu, Kerpen \u00a9 Daniel Chatard<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n

The Manheim-neu<\/strong> resettlement site is located a few kilometres away from Mannheim. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in 2011; today, about 1,000 people live there.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"\"\n \n Keyenberg, Erkelenz \u00a9 Daniel Chatard<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n

Activists Robin and Jillie<\/strong>\u00a0live in the tree houses even in sub-zero temperatures.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"\"\n \n Hambach open pit mine, Elsdorf \u00a9 Daniel Chatard<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n

The Hambach lignite mine<\/strong> is 400 meters deep, and a residual lake will be created from it one day. Filling the lake with water from the Rhine is expected to take several decades. However, environmental groups doubt the feasibility of the project.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"\"\n \n Hambacher Forst, Kerpen \u00a9 Daniel Chatard<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n

\u201cClumsy\u201d was already present<\/strong> at the first forest occupation in 2012 and has lived in Hambacher Forst almost continuously for over five years.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\n \"\"\n \n Hambach Forest, Merzenich \u00a9 Daniel Chatard<\/span>\n <\/div>\n\n

Police and SEK officers<\/strong> cleared the tree house settlement “Lorien” in Hambach Forest during the evictions in September 2018.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n \n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n

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