Events

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‘Machines roar, needle drags the thread,

Sharp knife shines, cuts in two and stabs.’

With a description of a noisy and frantic environment, Halina Golczowa paints a complex picture of the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp in her poem ‘The Night Shift’ from 1942/43. A phrenetic movement of female workers, the machinery and sewing materials is the background against which the poet and former forced labourer understands the condition of the profound use of the murderous apparatus of Nazism.

In the weaving mill in the Memorial's former ‘Industriehof,’ Dominique Hurth presents an artistic intervention named after an excerpt from Golczowa's poem. The artist explores the textile history of the women's concentration camp, which has been little researched to date.

The individual elements of the accompanying programme will provide the impetus for an interdisciplinary exchange between those invited and the artist in various formats such as lectures, open discussion rounds and lectureships. 

During this event at the Ravensbrück Memorial, Judith Raum will talk to Dominique Hurth about the technical and material aspects of weaving, as well as the question of what an artistic approach to weaving can contribute to the examination of forced labour in the textile industry.

With: Judith Raum, Artist

At 2:30 p.m., Dominique Hurth will offer a short guided tour of the exhibition.

The event will be held in German. 

Venue

Ravensbrück Memorial Museum 

Former weaving mill in the “Industriehof” 

Straße der Nationen
16798 Fürstenberg/Havel