Sisters, break your chains

Exhibition opening and concert

Schwestern, zerreißt eure Ketten

on Thursday, September 5, 2024 between 6 and 8 p.m., the Cemetery of the March Fallen will ceremonially open the new participatory exhibition

"Sisters break your chains. Women and the 1848 Revolution"

The revolution of 1848 was also a women's revolution throughout Europe. They wanted to break the invisible chains that governed their lives. They fought against social hardship and for political change - and rebelled against an order that oppressed them socially and legally.

But what did women's lives actually look like around 1848? How did they help shape society? And what were they fighting for when the revolution broke out in Berlin in March 1848?

The new special exhibition answers all these questions and introduces you to nine women who fought for freedom and equal rights. You will also find out what Emma Herwegh and Louise Aston wearing pants has to do with revolution; why the issue of divorce was so important for both Clara Mundt and Fanny Lewald; and why Amalie Krüger was banned from working as a kindergarten teacher.

 

Program:

Welcome: Sigrid Klebba, Paul Singer Association

Welcome address: Kai-Michael Sprenger, Director of the Foundation Sites of German Democratic History

Introduction: Dora Busch, curator

Panel discussion "Democracy, participation and gender today":

Melanie Kühnemann-Grunow, cultural policy spokesperson

SPD parliamentary group in the House of Representatives

Kerstin Wolff, Archive of the German Women's Movement

followed by a reception and musical finale with: Sophie Trost Combo

 

Translated with DeepL

Booking: until 1.9.2024 to

Next date:

• Date Thursday, 05/September/2024 18:00 bis 20:30
• Venue Friedhof der Märzgefallenen
• Address Ernst-Zinna-Weg, 10249 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg