BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1771@kulturaktiv.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250308T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20250308T190000 DTSTAMP:20250305T120303Z URL:https://kulturaktiv.org/en/events/midissage-reading-with-dorothee-ries e/ SUMMARY:Midissage: Reading with Dorothee Riese DESCRIPTION:Reading from the book ‘We are here for the silence’\n‘The story of a childhood as a social experiment: in the early 1990s\, Judith emigrates from Germany to Romania with her parents. Their destination is a remote village in Transylvania on the edge of the Carpathian Mountains. J udith is to grow up in a pristine community free from capitalism. She expl ores the place\, its people\, history and language with a keen eye.\n\nShe becomes the elective granddaughter of the old Transylvanian Saxon Lizitan ti\, who gives her a rooster as a present. And she meets Irina\, who trave ls with her goat in the milk lorry. Irina is one of them. Judith wants to be one too\, even though her friend resists this appropriation. Soon the c ontradiction between the utopia they have brought with them and the realit y they have found presents the family with ever greater problems.’\n\nA tragicomic story about the painful search for identity\, told with literar y finesse and a child's eye that shies away from nothing.\n\nThe author Do rothee Riese was born near Göttingen in 1989 and grew up in Romania. She studied International Literature\, Slavic Studies and the Culture and Hist ory of Central and Eastern Europe in Tübingen\, Moscow\, Frankfurt an der Oder and Barnaul in southern Siberia. She lives with her family in Leipzi g. ‘We are here for the silence’ is her first novel.\n\nMore at www.do rotheeriese.de\n\n \;\nPhotographs from Transylvania 1994/95\nRadu Dar vas\, born in 1973 in Bucharest\, first studied there at the Academy of Ar ts and later in Dresden at the Academy of Fine Arts. As a young boy\, he w as given a camera and discovered photography. But it was only a few years later\, in the period before and during the ‘89 revolution\, that Radu b egan to photograph more and more intensively. He developed the pictures in the bathroom of his prefabricated flat in Bucharest. If it were up to him \, he would just take pictures\, but what emerged are photos with a fine a rtistic eye that have gained historical value over time. His style dissolv ed the distance between himself as a photographer and the people in front of the lens.\n\nRadu Darvas passed away in 2015. His photographic estate c omprises several thousand black and white negatives and around 70 develope d analogue images. The desire of Mira Darvas\, Radu's second child\, to lo ok after the estate gave rise to a small project sponsored by the Departme nt of Culture. With the help of her aunt (Anca Darvas) and her mother (Hei ke Tuellmann)\, she is working on archiving the negatives and photographs and analysing what she has seen\, some of it familiar and much of it unfam iliar. The complete digitisation of all negatives has not yet taken place. Further rolls of film turned up both in Bucharest and in Dresden. The mat erial that has already been viewed forms the basis for the ‘Wiedergutmac hung’ exhibition and provides a very unique insight into Viscri / Deutsc h-Weisskirch in 1994/95. Wiedergutmachung\, a word that Radu taught his si ster\, probably a bit of a joke. But today ‘Wiedergutmachung’ also bri ngs a little peace and closes many circles.\n\n \;\n\nCuration: Mira D arvas\nConsultancy: Simon Wolf ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://kulturaktiv.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/ 02/Design-ohne-Titel7.png CATEGORIES:Lesung LOCATION:Galerie nEUROPA\, Bautzner Straße 49\, Dresden\, 01099\, Germany GEO:51.063211;13.755891 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bautzner Straße 49\, Dresd en\, 01099\, Germany;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Galerie nEUROPA:geo:51.063 211,13.755891 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241027T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR