Tag des Vergessens. Und des Erinnerns.
Team WissensSpuren
In November we celebrated the first anniversary of the WissensSpuren, and the German Museum for Books and Writing launched its new exhibition Forget it?!. On this occasion we invited our friends and the community of Leipzig to a KnowledgeFestival. Together with partners from science, society, and culture we considered what is worth remembering, what should be forgotten, and how to preserve what is important. And we discovered some entirely new aspects of the topic of forgetting.
In the morning there was a diverse program in the German Museum for Books and Writing of the German National Library:
- the exhibition »Forget it?!«
- digital games addressing »Forgetting and Remembering« and interactive installations about »Remembrance« that were contributed by the Macromedia University
- Artistic Interventions by students of the class for Artistic Action and Research at the HGB Leipzig
- talks by Felicitas Biller: (Toihaus): „Was bleibet aber, stiften die Dichter – Arno Schmidt als Super-Archiv“, Philipp Meyer (IfL): „Hans Meyer und die Schneeberge Afrikas“ and Kimberly Coulter (IfL): „The future of the colonial past“
- and guided tours through the museum and the library, and many other activities.
At 2pm we set out for a guided tour addressing Leipzig’s Power Women.
A central component of this tour was a guided tour through the Heinicke school with a comprehensive discussion of the too less known and appreciated merits of Anna Heinickehttps://www.leipzig.de/leben-in-leipzig/soziales/frauen/1000-jahre-leipzig-100-frauenportraets/detailseite-frauenportraets/projekt/heinicke-anna-catharina-elisabeth-geborene-kludt.
Visit of the Heinicke-School. Photos: Team WissensSpuren.
The day was concluded in the Grassi with a curator’s tour addressing restitution of artifacts of Leipzig’s colonial past, and the forgotten practice of musically accompanying silent movies by life performances on cinema organs.
Closing event in the Grassi. Photos: Team WissensSpuren.
We extend our sincere thanks to the many active members of the team, the students of the HGB and the Macromedia University, and the colleagues at the German National Library, the Heinicke school and the Museums at GRASSI for their enormous commitment, and lots of fabulous contributions and explanations. Moreover, we thank our visitors for their keen interest, and many intensive discussions.
We loved the festival!