Kalender

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).

• 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)

The event is being organised in cooperation with the Dresden Film Festival and ties in with the festival's focus on "Work in Transition". It is kindly supported by Eisenfeustel.

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
• Meeting point in the gallery (2nd floor)
• You do not need a museum ticket for this tour.

Jonathan Kaminsky is a civil engineer and works as a site manager at the Dresden housing construction combine. Through his girlfriend, he meets artists who persuade him to model for them. They wanted to create a sculpture of the New Man for the next major GDR art exhibition. In the end, he stands in front of the museum as a pillar of socialism. From this perspective, he tells his stories about his pious grandmother, his Russian-speaking grandfather, his violent father, a teacher and party secretary, and his forced move from the village to the suburbs of Berlin.

Wolfram Nagel, born in 1955 in a village in southern Thuringia, has led a life that could be the subject of several novels: From skilled construction worker to civil engineer, from NVA soldier to student at the "Johannes R. Becher" Literature Institute, from young family father in the alternative artist project of an empty castle to working as a freelance author for Radio DDR, MDR and Deutschlandfunk.

His novel draws on these experiences. It tells of origin and change, of confinement and expanse, of the search for one's own path in a state that often only tolerated individual life plans on the margins. Nagel combines keen observation with poetic imagination, creating a literary picture of the GDR that is both personal and universal.

We cordially invite you to a book premiere that not only presents the author's first novel, but also an author who has been observing social developments with a keen sense for decades.

The book forms an imaginary link to the City Museum's special exhibition on prefabricated housing.

• Moderation: Richard Stratenschulte

Introduction to the project: What is a Torah? Why has it been written by hand for over 2500 years?

In around 35 minutes, Jahna Dahms explains the project and talks about the origin, tradition and significance of the Torah as the oldest continuous cultural technique of mankind. Questions can be asked afterwards. The scribe will be present during the event.

• You do not need a museum ticket for this guided tour.

Introduction to the project: What is a Torah? Why has it been written by hand for over 2500 years?

In around 35 minutes, Jahna Dahms explains the project and talks about the origin, tradition and significance of the Torah as the oldest continuous cultural technique of mankind. Questions can be asked afterwards. The scribe will be present during the event.

• You do not need a museum ticket for this guided tour.

Introduction to the project: What is a Torah? Why has it been written by hand for over 2500 years?

In around 35 minutes, Jahna Dahms explains the project and talks about the origin, tradition and significance of the Torah as the oldest continuous cultural technique of mankind. Questions can be asked afterwards. The scribe will be present during the event.

• You do not need a museum ticket for this guided tour.

Undine Materni's new poems, published by Gans Verlag under the title "Manchmal ist es gut an roten Pfeffer zu denken" (Sometimes it's good to think of red pepper), tell of craftswomen and their work, their inspiration, their relationship to the things they preserve, change or create anew.

"An enchanting book that celebrates women in crafts" is the title of this special book, which features wonderful collages by Ruth Habermehl.

Undine Materni, born in 1963, is a poet, literary critic and editor and lives in Dresden. She has published numerous volumes of stories and poetry.

Volker Sielaff's new volume of poetry "Fragen an den Yeti", published by Voland & Quist / Edition Azur, once again spans a wide arc: from childhood in Lusatia to the streets of London. We meet Sylvia Plath, the birdman and an anonymous young artist.

The SZ wrote enthusiastically about this book: "In his new volume, Volker Sielaff is more perceptive, colourful and norm-obsessed than ever before."

Volker Sielaff, born in 1966, poet, prose writer and publicist, lives in Dresden. Numerous volumes of poetry, one book of prose

• Moderation: Richard Stratenschulte

Introduction to the project: What is a Torah? Why has it been written by hand for over 2500 years?

In around 35 minutes, Jahna Dahms explains the project and talks about the origin, tradition and significance of the Torah as the oldest continuous cultural technique of mankind. Questions can be asked afterwards. The scribe will be present during the event.

• You do not need a museum ticket for this guided tour.

In one go ... the glass emptied, the game won, the painting completed, the building erected and the Torah written. In one go... the Museum Night programme at the Landhaus unites the diversity of art and culture. It looks at movement and process, technology and innovation, craftsmanship and tradition, history and the present. Take the next train and be part of it!

Introduction to the project: What is a Torah? Why has it been written by hand for over 2500 years?

In around 35 minutes, Jahna Dahms explains the project and talks about the origin, tradition and significance of the Torah as the oldest continuous cultural technique of mankind. Questions can be asked afterwards. The scribe will be present during the event.

• You do not need a museum ticket for this guided tour.

The Gorbitz prefabricated housing estate, which was built in the 1980s, has changed bit by bit over the past 25 years. Where once one block resembled another, today there is diversity, not only in the form of colourful facades, but also inside the buildings. Lifts, bathrooms with showers and windows, spacious kitchens, new balconies, tenants' gardens - all this can now be found in the "Platte" thanks to modernisations and conversions.

One outstanding and well-known conversion project is the Kräutersiedlung, which was realised between 2002 and 2004 by the Eisenbahner-Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft Dresden eG. But a lot has also happened in Gorbitz since then, and construction is still ongoing in several places.

The guiding principle has always been to preserve the strengths of prefabricated housing (e.g. spacious, green inner courtyards and compact structures) while at the same time eliminating disadvantages (e.g. small kitchens and bathrooms, six-storey buildings without lifts).

The tour leads to selected converted residential buildings and is intended to illustrate the potential of prefabricated housing and its future viability using the example of Gorbitz.

With Konstanze Mally

• Duration: 2 hours
• Meeting point at the Merianplatz tram stop (out-of-town side)
• Participation free of charge
• Registration online or at the visitor service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)