Dr. Jörn Wendland: Comics im KZ?

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Illustration Vuk Palibrk

Comics im KZ? Das erscheint kaum vorstellbar. Wer nicht zu den Millionen Ermordeten in den verschiedenen nationalsozialistischen Lagern gehörte, litt unter Hunger, Krankheit, Folter und Zwangsarbeit. Und doch gelang es einigen wenigen Gefangenen sich mit sequentieller Kunst auszudrücken. Auch unmittelbar nach der Befreiung fertigten zahlreiche Überlebende mehrteilige Bildserien über ihre Lagerzeit an.

Über dieses Thema spricht Dr. Jörn Wendland

am Donnerstag 19.11.15, 19 Uhr,
in der Galerie im Saalbau, Karl-Marx-Str. 141, 12043 Berlin-Neukölln.

Dr. Jörn Wendland, Kunsthistoriker und Historiker, gibt in seinem Vortrag einen Überblick über die sequentiellen Bildwerke aus den NS-Lagern. Darin geht es u.a. um den narrativen Zusammenhang der einzelnen Bilder, die Beziehung zwischen Text und Bild, aber auch um Fragen nach Täter-Opferperspektiven. Gezeigt werden Arbeiten etwa von István Irsai, Alfred Kantor und Simon Wiesenthal.

Only one week to go!

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Illustration Martins Zutis

We are getting really excited! Attached you find the invitation card for the exhibition opening on 6th November 6 p.m. in the Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin Neukölln. Feel free to share it:

Invitation Card Redrawing Stories from the Past

Check the lectures of Jörg Wendland (19.11.2015) and Ole Frahm (3.12.2015) and the comic workshop offered by Sascha Hommer (5.12.2015)!

Ausstellung 6.11. in der Galerie im Saalbau

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Illustration Paula Bulling
Bild von Paula Bulling

Bald können keine Augenzeugen mehr von den Verbrechen des Nationalsozialismus berichten. Doch noch immer gibt es viele vergessene Opfer. Wer hat etwa schon von arabischen KZ-Häftlingen gehört? Zugleich bedarf das Erinnern an ihre Geschichten dringend neuer und lebendiger Konzepte, besonders für junge Menschen und für eine zusammenwachsende Welt. Das Projekt „Redrawing Stories from the past“ von MitOst e.V. bringt vergessene Geschichte, Kunst und Jugendkultur zusammen. Fünf junge Graphic Novel-KünstlerInnen aus verschiedenen Ländern Europas haben sich auf die Spurensuche begeben.

Wir möchten Sie herzlich einladen zur erstmaligen Projektpräsentation

am 6. November 2015 um 18:00 Uhr
in der Galerie im Saalbau,
Karl-Marx-Straße 141, 12043 Berlin-Neukölln.

Die KünstlerInnen, ProjektleiterInnen und Ole Frahm und Sascha Hommer, Experten für Geschichte und Comics, werden für Gespräche zur Verfügung stehen.

Second workshop in Chemnitz

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Illustration Zosia Dzierżawska

After a long period of research (and online communication) our Redrawing-team finally met the second time. The five day workshop took place at the alternative youth center Chemnitz (AJZ Chemnitz). David Schilter from our Latvian partner organization kuš! also joined the meeting. On Sunday we arrived at the AJZ Chemnitz, where we were welcomed warmly. After dinner the artists presented their storyboards to show their work status. Afterwards Ole Frahm and Sascha Hommer got into personal conversations with them. It was great to recognize the development of the stories. A lot of questions and problems we discussed in Pančevo in early April were solved, but some new problems evolved.

Beside the personal dialogues, our artists had the chance to keep on working and discussing. For this the garden of the AJZ was the perfect place. Here we also got provided with daily tasty meals prepared by the members of the AJZ.

 

On Monday, 29th of June, Ole Frahm held a public lecture at the AJZ Chemnitz about „Anti-Semitic caricatures in comics“, which was followed by a very interesting public discussion with the audience. On Wednesday we went on a bike tour through the city to learn more about the National Socialist history of Chemnitz. The tour was guided by Enrico, a member of the NGO VVN-BdA. Enrico took us through the city and showed us places of National Socialist terror and persecution. We learned that Chemnitz was a socialistic and democratic centre in central Germany and tried to fight against the coming into power of the National Socialists.

On our last workshop day we invited pupils from the André Gymnasium in Chemnitz. We presented our project to them and engaged them to draw their own comics about victims of National-Socialism. In their case about the victims, who died at the killing center Pirna-Sonnenstein, a place where thousands of disabled people were killed between 1940 and 1942.

After an intensive workshop week, we are looking forward to the final comics of our five artists, the forthcoming kuš!-publication and the exhibitions in Berlin (6th of November 2015) and Chemnitz (January 2016).

Visit of the Pirna-Sonnenstein Memorial

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Pirna-Sonnenstein

Together with youth of the AJZ-Chemnitz we visited the former sanatorium Pirna-Sonnenstein, an institution that had been renowned for its humanist tradition, before the National Socialists turned the sanatorium into a killing center.

15 000 people were murdered at Pirna-Sonnenstein in the years 1941 and 1942, most of them because they were diagnosed with (an alleged) mental handicap or illness. They were killed in gas chambers within the framework of the National Socialist medical murders, the so called ‘Action T4’. Over a thousand prisoners from National Socialist concentration camps also died at this site in the summer of 1941 (‘special treatment 14f13’).

The killing center Pirna-Sonnenstein served as a personnel, organizational and technical field of experimentation for the future extermination camps like Auschwitz, Treblinka and Sobibor. In the upcoming workshop in Chemnitz, the participants will approach a range of biographies of the victims, made available by the memorial site, under the supervision of Sascha Hommer in an artistic way.