Park Fiction

This guide to Park Fiction in Hamburg's St. Pauli opens with an answering machine in 1995 taking calls from strangers describing a park that didn't exist yet, one with palm trees and a view of ships. You'll hear how artists Christoph Schäfer and Margit Czenki turned that hotline into a collection of wishes for land the city had already cleared for offices and a hotel, on ground squatters had contested since 1981. The guide follows how those recorded voicemails, clay models, and a board game about city budgets pushed back against a real estate plan already in motion.