Handkerchief action on the bridge
Sabina Kaeser stitched in the residence 300 handkerchiefs with a Slovak and Hungarian first name each. The very first open border day these 300 handkerchiefs were sticked to the bridge to remind on waving for good-bye and welcome. Couple of days later all handkerchiefs found their destination.

Sabina Kaeser stitches …
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… and sticks the handkerchief … supported by von Thomas Hauck, Ágnes Walsch, Hanneke Frühauf and the illustrator Alexander Bugyács

The work is done …
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… and makes curious

Petra, Dáša and Alexej did not pass by yet
Mister Blimel, the screw inspector
The first volume of the Edition Bridgeguard, the fairy tale book “Mister Blimel, the screw inspector” is issued in German and bilingual Slovak / Hungarian.

The Illustrator and the author are happy with the book

Signing the book

The enthusiasm of the children for the book is recognisably higher than …

… of the passport control on the last day of their duty on the bridge
Der Illustrator und der Autor freuen sich über das Buch.
Poem printing
From sunrise to sunset Thomas J. Hauck and Sabina Kaeser “printed” with flour the poem by Attila József “At Danube” on the balustrade of the Mária Valéria bridge.


Sabina Kaeser and Thomas Hauck “print”


The title of the poem “On the Danube” in Hungarian and Slovak

Poem on the bridge balustrade


Slovak and Hungarian detail arranged by wind
Open Doors
Open Doors in the Bridge Guard residency. With an exhibition of drawings and photographs, a red wire installation in the courtyard of the residence, accordion music and song by Sabina Kaeser and reading of the fairy tale “Mister Blimel, the screw inspector” written by Thomas J. Hauck while guarding the bridge.

Thomas Hauck reads Mister Blimel

Sabina Kaeser sings in the language of her phantasy

Thomas draws with coffee

Thomas and Sabina wire red
The bridge of words
Exhibition in the Bridge guard residency. “The bridge of words” shows the photographs of people, Tereresa did interview about the Mária Valéria bridge from the times before the second world war.

Talk of two protagonists

Photomontages .

The exhbition is a festival.

The visitors of the opne house day voted for the word “togertherness”.

Teresa Cebrian receives from the mayor the bridge guard certificate.
Boundaries & Barriers
Exhibition in the Bridge Guard residency. Marcel Baaijens titled “Boundaries & Barriers” the exhibition with drawings by the kids from the children home.

Children in front of the Trojan horse with their portraits

Director of the children home, Ján Papšo, with his guests from a children home in Budapest.

Children before the good-bye ritual with stones from Danube.

Juraj Himmler hands out the Bridge Guard certificate of the town to Marcel Baaijens, in background are the pictures of the children.
Now Here
“Now Here” is an installation by Monique Besten (2. bridge guard) with thousand paper boats and ten thousand paper birds in the synagogue.

10’000 paper birds folded form pages of history books …






