Strong women in Lichtenburg Castle – lecture, book presentation and panel discussion about the turbulent history of a castle where little Augustus the Strong played.
With art historian Dr. Silke Herz, TU Dresden; Melanie Engler, Director of the Lichtenburg Concentration Camp Memorial; Petra Reichenbach, editor and designer of the book Strong Women in Lichtenburg Castle, and restorer and Chairman of the Board of the Lichtenburg Castle Association Tino Simon. Moderation: Author Sybille Zugowski, Pretzsch.
The book on Petra Reichenbach’s multimedia installation at Lichtenburg Castle*
First a castle, then a concentration camp – the changing use of the extensive grounds in Prettin could not be more disturbing. In this essayistic illustrated book, five electresses who resided in Lichtenburg Castle from the end of the 16th to the beginning of the 18th century and five prisoners of the Lichtenburg women’s concentration camp from December 1937 to May 1939 enter into an imaginary dialog about motives for the exclusion of dissenters.
The ten women’s stories from the past show that discrimination and persecution have been relevant issues at all times and still are today.
*) Permanent exhibition in the women’s chambers there, created as part of the Heimatsstipendium#2 of the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation. “Dreh- und Wendebuch”: 20 authors on 200 pages with 200 illustrations for €30. Portrait drawings, concept, book design and editing: Petra Reichenbach