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• Duration: 1.5 hours
• Meeting point at the ticket office
• Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission

Note: Due to popular demand, two tours are offered at the same time, alternating between the two exhibition rooms. Both groups will receive an overview of the entire exhibition. Meeting point at the ticket office

The city museum opens its doors for a colourful and eventful family day on the subject of prefabricated housing.

11:00 to 17:00

• Numerous play and creative stations in the exhibition
• Concrete detectives: The great search in EAST and WEST! - a search and find game (exhibition room)
• Your "Platte" made of plaster! (museum café)

11:00 and 15:00
Reading and comic workshop with Nadia Budde(with registration)

In our museum café you can fortify yourself with cake and hot chocolate and prepare for the next building adventures.

At the reading, Nadia Budde will present her book "Pick your favourite, but hurry up". In it, the author describes her childhood, which she spent both in the countryside with her grandparents and in a new housing estate in the city. At the age of 12, she moved to Berlin-Marzahn, the largest and best-known new housing estate in East Germany.

The reading will be followed by a workshop with the author and graphic artist. The children can invent their own stories about their home and the adventures that take place there and then turn them into their own mini-comic.

• With Nadia Budde (German graphic designer and children's book author)
• For families with children aged 8 and over (max. 2 adults)
• Participation free of charge plus museum admission
• Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)

The guided tour of the exhibition provides in-depth information and unusual insights into the Torah - into its handed-down tradition and the manual and ritualised writing process.

• Curator's tour with Jahna Dahms

• Duration: 1.5 hours
• Meeting point at the ticket office
• Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission

Note: Due to popular demand, two tours are offered at the same time, alternating between the two exhibition rooms. Both groups will receive an overview of the entire exhibition. Meeting point at the ticket office

What do you think of when you hear "smock apron"? At the storytelling café, you are invited to share your memories and stories about smock aprons - or simply listen. You are welcome to bring themed photos or even your own smock aprons.

The afternoon will be led by Stefanie Reis, cultural scientist and smock researcher, who has been working intensively on smock aprons and their significance as a material of remembrance since 2023(www.diekittel.de).

The event is being organised in cooperation with Filmfest Dresden and ties in with the festival's focus on "Work in Transition".

• With Stefanie Reis
• Duration: 1.5 hours
• Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351 488 7272 (MO - FR)

He - a flight animal, always on the run, driven by a fear that he cannot admit. She - in search of security, of belonging, of someone to stay with. Two people who touch, entangle and lose each other - and never let go of each other. On a Canary Island, exposed to the merciless sun, they rub against each other. This love is a decision. A decision nonetheless. A now more than ever. But how much friction can closeness withstand? And how do we escape the patterns that are deeply embedded in our skin: the hardness that is expected of men, the conformity that women have learnt?

Nancy Hünger writes about shame and pride, alienation and attraction. About the impossible and the nevertheless.

"An extraordinary book, and so natural in everything that you don't even realise how literary it is. It lives from its fearlessness and unreservedness." - Ingo Schulze

• Admission €6, reduced €4

A co-operation between Literarische Arena e.V., the Evangelische Akademie Sachsen and the Museums of the City of Dresden.

The event is sponsored by the City of Dresden.

We cordially invite educators from day-care centres and preschools to our further training course at the Stadtmuseum and the Städtische Galerie im Landhaus. We would like to present four daycare centre offers on this morning. Two of the programmes were developed and tested together with cooperating daycare centres.

A half-ruined baroque convent right on the Polish border, in one of the most remote corners of the Czech Republic. From 1950 to 1989, the socialist power apparatus interned members of women's orders from all over the republic there, while their home convents were dissolved. At times, up to 400 nuns lived in this so-called "waiting room of heaven" at the same time. Despised by socialist society, the nuns had to perform forced labour under the most adverse conditions, often spied on by supposed helpers. The aim was to eradicate Christianity in the country, but instead of bowing to the pressure, the women only defended their faith more vigorously. They came together as a community in spirit and managed to pursue the principle of charity even in the greatest hardship and under the worst reprisals.

"Bílá voda" is not only the story of a purge that was unprecedented for socialist states, but also of the fictional young nun Evarista, who is ordained as a Catholic priest and practises as such until the Pope excommunicates her after the Velvet Revolution. The story is told in the present from the perspective of journalist Lena Lagnerová, who visits the secluded retreat for fallen women due to psychological problems and gradually brings the stories of the past to light. Author Kateřina Tučková spent ten years researching in archives and sifting through countless original documents, some of which have been incorporated into the novel unchanged.

"Bílá voda" is a novel about the unprecedented repression of religious during socialism, even in the former Eastern Bloc. At the same time, the novel addresses the role of women in the Catholic Church and is therefore a very topical work.

Kateřina Tučková was awarded the State Prize for Literature of the Czech Republic for this book. This translation is an excerpt from the novel, which has not yet been published in German.

Kateřina Tučková, born in Brno in 1980, is one of the most popular and best-selling authors in the Czech Republic.

She is a prose writer, playwright, publicist, art historian with a doctorate and exhibition curator. She studied Bohemian Studies and Art History at Masaryk University in Brno. In her novels, she tells fictional stories inspired by meticulously researched real-life facts. She has received the Josef Škvorecký Prize, the Prize for Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights from the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes and the Magnesia Litera and Czech Bestseller prizes. Her books have been translated into twenty languages.

The author will present the book in conversation with moderator Šárka Atzenbeck. The translator Martina Lisa will interpret and read the excerpts in German.

• Admission €6, reduced €4

No other philosopher seems to have such a strong appeal as Friedrich Nietzsche. The whole world has worked its way through him: Artists and poets, politicians, philosophers and pop stars. Elmar Schenkel sets off in search of traces of Nietzsche that have emerged in many cultures around the world over the last 150 years - and learns a lot about people and societies.

Evangelische Erwachsenenbildung Dresden, Evangelische Akademie Sachsen in co-operation with the museums of the city of Dresden

• Moderation: Dr Panja Lange
• Admission 6 €, reduced 4 €