Environmental Engineering Reference
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Chapter 22
Brigitte Schmidt
Art Wind Farm, Lübow, Solarzentrum Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Dorf Mecklenburg,
Haus Nr. 11, D-23966 Wietow, Germany
solar.simv@t-online.de
“Sun worshipper”—that was how a journalist from the “Schweriner
Volkszeitung”
once called me. I was born in Plessa, in the heart
of the brown coal region of Eastern Germany, not far from the
legendary Horno.
At the age of 4, I began to absorb 'the know-
ledge of the world', which my father had kept over the war years,
and I wanted to become a scientist. At the age of 0, I installed
an electrical wiring in my parents' flat; at 11, I illegally passed my
moped license; and at 13, I learned typing without looking. My
father Franz Kießlich—an artist and teacher—and I, armed with
sketch-pads, wandered through the “moonscape” of the desolate
territory of the once open-cast brown coal mines. My mother, a sales
assistant and someone who knew the telephone topics by heart,
fought daily against the coal dust, being unable to dry the washing
Article in
Schweriner Volkszeitung
(SVZ), 5.09.006.
Horno was one of the villages demolished and resettled by Swedish concern
Vattenfall AB in 005 due to lignite mining investments.
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