Grashina Gabelmann (*1988, Germany) is the editor-in-chief and founding member of Flaneur Magazine – a site-specific, interdisciplinary and award-winning publication – focusing on one street per publication. She is a translator of novels, a published writer of psychogeographic prose and is currently working on creating a digital interactive fiction game experimenting with archives, oral history and personal and collective narratives.

I spent the last four months immersing myself in Schöppingen by attending local events, learning a card game specific to this region, giving workshops, building relationships with locals and letting one moment or person naturally lead me to the next while always staying open, curious and mostly importantly – by listening. To me listening is one of the highest forms of care we can give one another and this personal belief is also a creative methodology which flows into my projects. I began collecting stories about Schöppingen through many conversations with different people and eventually immersed myself in archival materials, took photos and videos and extended my practice of listening to research. I am now turning the fragments I have collected into a digital interactive fiction game that is participatory, multi-disciplinary and an archive as well as a playful experimentation of oral history. The content will be created with locals using their personal histories and collective memories – the game will be a ‘choose your own adventure’ walk through the past and present of Schöppingen connecting people, places and objects that might not seem related at first.