»Himmelweit…« was designed in summer 2008, the participating institutions of the project and later project mentors met for a first strategy workshop in Dresden in October. In December 2008 and January 2009 the student teams were put together in Bratislava, Prague, Wroclaw and Dresden. A first meeting of all teams and mentors took place in the beginning of February at the premises of the Goethe-Institute in Prague. Among a theme-centred city-tour and evening strolls through Prague, we discussed central questions und working methods. After the workshop the four teams started researching in their respective cities. During a further workshop in April we got to know the work of the Edith-Stein-House and broadened our knowledge on exhibition planning and conception. In June the four city teams presented their research and working hypothesis, thus expanding our mutual understanding of the similarities and differences of the transformation processes in the various cities and states. Summertime was all about transfering all materials, ideas and theses in exhibitions modules. From October 2009 the results were presented in Wroclaw, Dresden Prague, Zilina and Bratislava.

Dresden

Presentation of the exhibition St. Petersburger Straße from 3rd October to 13th November 2009

Events

Tue, 13/10/09 | »Who owns the street?« with Detlef Pflugk (former activist for the IG Neustadt) and Olaf Böhme (Dresden artist, author, film maker)

Thu, 22/10/09 | »It was a courageous decision to stay! - Former foreign contract workers in the GDR and their stories around 1989« with Hang Thanh Phung (former contract worker, Germanist and  translator) and Johanna Stoll (social pedagogue, member of the Dresden Council for Foreigners)

Wed, 4/11/09 »Information in Formation« with Prof. Dr. Michael Meyen (Univ of Munich) and Prof. Dr. Beata Ociepka (Univ of Wroclaw)

Wed, 10/11/09 »Oktoberfilm«, movie and discussion with film director Ralf Kukula (Balance Film GmbH)

Wed, 11/11/09 »(Un)loved remembrance« with Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dietmar Henke, Chair in Contemporary History at Technical University Dresden, Miroslav Lehký, Deputy Director of the »Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes« in Prague, Frank Richter, Director of the »Saxon Agency for Civic Education«

Exhibition at four locations in public spaces in Dresden - 1st October to 13th November 2009

Presentation of the exhibition at the Bautzner Straße Memorial, 15th Feburary to 2nd June 2010

Prague

The Prague exhibition was inaugurated 16th November, 7 p.m. at the gallery NoD and was closed 30th November 2010.

Wroclaw

Presentation of the exhibition, Kulturkeller, Edith-Stein-House, Nowowiejska Street, Wroclaw - 4th to 29th November, 2009

Events

Wed, 4/11/2009 | Opening of the exhibition - Discussion on the topic »The city and culture«, with the introductory speech »The city-centre as a culture-creating nucleus«

Thu, 19/11/2009 | German-Polish Discussion »In what way have we changed after the Iron Curtain’s fall?« with Tomasz Stefanicki, member of the club »Young Wroclaw« and the Dresden students Mario Kliewer and Alexis Demos

Tue, 24/11/2009 | Film- Night »Generation ´89« and subsequent meeting with the film director Maria Zmarz- Koczanowicz

Presentation of the exhibition in public spaces in (Swidnicka-Street) from 18th October to 9th November

Bratislava/ Žilina

Presentation of the exhibition in Žilina - 17th to 22nd November 2009 at the Stanica Žilina-Záriecie within the scope of »memory kontrol 2009« with more than 20 lectures, concerts, theatre and film shows

Presentation of the exhibition in Bratislava - Poster exhibition in public spaces in the centre of Bratislava in November 2009