As part of her field research, in mid-October Karina Hoření took part in the Wandelust event organized by artist Lucie Králíková. For several years now, a group of volunteers has been caring for the damaged cemetery of the original German inhabitants in the village of Čermná (German: Leukersdorf) near Ústí nad Labem (Aussig). This initiative, of which there are many similar ones in the Czech borderlands, is unique in that it included not only work on the graves but also an artistic performance in a local abandoned church. This event, which makes use of the specific necromantic atmosphere of abandoned sacred buildings in the former German borderlands while further aestheticizing it, attracted a diverse audience. Art school students, local residents, a Slovak writer, and finally two ethnologists researching the borderlands, all came together to pull weeds and plant new flowers. This event shows how Czech collective memory has established a way of remembering the German past and who the actors are that make it happen.
