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UNTERNEHMEN EISENDORF/IRON VILLAGE//SCATTERED BORDERS Pohori na Sumave (CZ) August 1993 he Iron Curtain falls and reopens the deserted death strip between the Czech Republic and Austria. At this focus of Central European history we initiate Unternehmen Eisendorf/Iron Village with artists and social scientists from both countries. The interdisciplinary procession settles in the ghost village Pohori na Sumave, in order to investigate the place with its emptiness and its history and to think about surviving in the future. The weight of the luggage and the material for the artist or scientific work is limited to 30 kg – that is how much the Sudeten Germans were allowed to take with them, when they were driven out of the village in 1946. The participants – among them a former inhabitant of the village - live and work together for nine days in the exceptional situation of no man’s land. After the leaving party the pieces of work, documents and objects made in Pohori na Sumave are packed