TALK-RUNDE Live here: Zeitzeuginnen Ost

In the organizer's words:

Today: CHRISTIANE EISLER

"I was always a freelancer. That had to do with the fact that I was a somewhat unpopular student in 1983 because I dealt with certain topics - with punks and the Jugendwerkhof. ... At the HGB, it was common at the time for students, graduates, to receive job offers from industrial companies or cultural institutions, where they then worked as photographers. And nobody really wanted me because I was somehow a bit opportunistic."

Christiane Eisler, a qualified photographer, was given permission in 1982 to photograph the 160 young girls in Crimmitschau on a daily basis as they went about their daily lives in the youth work yard and during their work in the three-shift system in the full cloth factory. In the GDR, youth work yards belonged to the so-called special homes - which were intended to re-educate children and young people who were considered "difficult to educate" and did not fit into the state's view of society.

More than 30 years later, Christiane Eisler and journalist Gundula Lasch spoke to former inmates of this juvenile detention center - and created a touching photo/text exhibition plus documentation entitled "The Youth of Others" with unique photo documents and portraits of the inmates decades later. The documentation makes everyday life at the time accessible and shareable - as well as the effects of this time on the entire lives of the then very young protagonists. ._

"Ossi & Wessi" are - even 35 years after reunification - not categorizations of the 90s, but still current and relatively widespread stereotypical attributions of our present - in East and West. Images and judgmental opinions about "East women", for example, often reflect little knowledge about the lives and achievements of East women in different contexts.

An impressive counter-strategy: to make public authentic, biographical life stories of positioned, committed contemporary witnesses ... and to share them live. .... Christiane Eisler... live here today .. .

This new event format of women's culture will be continued in three more talk rounds in 2025

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