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The concert by the Logothetis Ensemble is the crowning ending, on the 12th of July at 15:00 in Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf.

The final day of the DISPLACED 2015 exhibition is the 11th of July, 11:00-20:00 in the Mendelsohn Hall, Industriestraße 2, Luckenwalde.

For additional information about the exhibition at the Mendelsohn Hall in Luckenwalde please see: schlachten.org

We look forward to seeing you

Emily Pütter

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Sat 27th June, Mendelsohn Hall

11:00-21:00 DISPLACED 2015 Exhibition & Video-Tent
Artworks by selected international artists to the theme DISPLACED 2015: fine art, sculpture, video and much more.

14:00 Guided tour of the exhibition
with Emily Pütter, artistic director of DISPLACED 2015

15:30 DISPLACED Film #3 69 min (3€)
International film festival Difference Screen present a collection of short and longer art films about displacement, by filmmakers from five continents. In this programme, films by Andrew Darke (UK), Daniel Brefin (Switzerland) and Sophia Tabatadze (Georgia). Artists Sophia Tabatadze and Andrew Darke will be present to talk about their work. View screening programme

Sun 28th June, Mendelsohn Hall

12:00-21:00 DISPLACED 2015 Exhibition & Video-Tent
Artworks by selected international artists to the theme DISPLACED 2015: fine art, sculpture, video and much more.

14:00 Guided tour of the exhibition
with Emily Pütter, artistic director of DISPLACED 2015

15:30 DISPLACED Film #4 65 min (3€)
International film festival Difference Screen present a collection of short and longer art films about displacement, by filmmakers from five continents. In this program, nine short films from Mozambique, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Egypt and Syria. View screening programm

Also coming up:

theater 89 performs at the Mendelsohn Hall on Friday 10th July

The festival Finissage Party is on the Saturday 11th July

and the Closing Concert by the Logothetis Ensemble is on Sunday 12th July.

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The launch-weekend featured a panel-discussion on the theme of Displacement and the meeting of art and science, there was a delicious buffet prepared by Luckenwalde resident Syrian refugee Marwan Osso, a guided tour of the exhibition, and the German-British duo Refugees KM gave a performance inspired by the correspondence of exiled Mendelsohn Hall architect Erich Mendelsohn and his wife. The weekend was topped by a performance by the world-famous Maharaj Trio.

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This coming weekend is very special, with Saturday the 20th June marking World Refugee Day. In addition to the DISPLACED 2015 Exhibition with artworks by our selection of 32 international artists, we will offer a large interactive sculpture-board-game, recycled-art and music workshops, screenings in our Red Cross Video-Tent, and bouncy castles for the children – all at the Mendelsohn Hall. We will be screening Iva Radivojevic’s award-wining film Evaporating Borders, as well as short films on the theme of Displacement by artists from Bulgaria, Hungary, Argentina, Georgia, Germany, USA and the UK. Filmmaker Verena Kyselka will talk about her work The Formosa Experiment.

Check out the festival programme for Saturday 20th June & Sunday 21 June

Also coming up:

Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th June, with more DISPLACED Film screenings, by artists from the UK, Switzerland, Georgia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Egypt and Syria.

theater 89 performs at the Mendelsohn Hall on Friday 10th July

The festival Finissage Party is on the Saturday 11th July

and the Closing Concert by the Logothetis Ensemble is on Sunday 12th July.

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An exhibition by international artists, musical performances, a guided tour, our video screenings in the refugee tents of the German Red Cross, drinks and delicious food by a Syrian chef await you.

16:00
Welcome by Emily Pütter
Creative Director DISPLACED 2015
Music by Refugees KM
Michael Neil (GB), Kristoff Becker (D)
Welcome by Sven Oole
Head of Communications Stiftung Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung
Frau Dr. Schulenburg erzählt ihre eigene Fluchtgeschichte
Personal recollections flight and expulsion

16:40
Panel Discussion With
Prof. Dr. Jan M. Piskorski (PL) Historian, author of “Die Verjagten”
Ronald Reimann, German Red Cross
Anne Frechen, Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf
Dr. Sabine Meister, Art historian
Khaled Al-boushi, Syrian artist residing in Germany
Colette/ Laboratoire Lumiere, Int. artist
Moderation: Gunda Lahn, Journalist

18:00
Music by Refugees KM & Buffet
Guided tour with – Dr. Sabine Meister

21:00
End of Programme

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The Victims of War, Forced Labor, Flight and Expulsion

An Essay by Jan M. Piskorki

European history begins with the Trojan War. By the end of the war, Troy was devastated. The Trojans escaped with Aeneas, who had lost his beloved wife in the fire. For many years, they wandered in the area of the Mediterranean Sea, between Asia Minor, Greece, Italy and Africa. Finally, they were welcomed into Libya. There, they were able to rest and even settle.

33 centuries later, thousands of refugees are fighting for their lives on the Mediterranean Sea. They are not welcome, and are saved only occasionally. Out of general helplessness and shame there are now calls for the bombing of the „smuggler ships“ in Libya.

Instead of opening the world’s congested migration channels wider and legalizing them, people naively wish to believe, that one of the greatest problems in human history can be solved with guns. Fortunately, there is no lack of committed people, who invest private money and effort to save these people. One of them, a 19-year old girl from Malta, hopes, that the refugee problem will be solved at last by the time she has children of her own. She says “we live in 2015, where something like this should not happen” – and adds “what’s happened to humanity, where is our soul?”

What is happening to „our soul“ – with our European memento of war and expulsion – that is the question I’d like to ask the last remaining contemporary witnesses of World War II in Teltow-Fläming. Henrik Schulze, the local chronicler from Jüterbog, describes it as the „war of 19 days“. „…which lasted at least 10 years“ – is what I would like to add, as I sit with his interesting books and read of the atrocities. The Jews were already ousted from here in the 1930s. Then came the forced laborers from all over the world, who kept the National Socialist economy and agriculture going for 6 years. Some of the locals began thinking that the world would remain forever separated into masters and slaves. Shortly later, the first German evacuees from the big cities arrived, forcing the people to reconsider, then in 1944/45 began the wave of Germans expelled from the East, and of the evacuees from the concentration camps, who often lost their lives in death marches, in this aforementioned „war of 19 days“.

Here, as in the rest of Central Europe, this vast migration came to an end around 1947. But the battle in the minds continued. Those who were children at that time confirm that the most severe battles were fought for the minds. They never end, though they had their beginnings as all wars do. The after-battles keep haunting us, even though everything has been systemized and explained away in museums and textbooks. People take the horror images, screams and smells with them into their grave. Like my aunt Maryla from Poznań; she carried her bridegroom, who died during WW I, in her heart and head until the 1980s. The older she became, the more often she talked about him. Finally, he became the most important event of the 20th century for her – during a time when the process, which led to the end of the cold war, began.

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Director of Schloss Wiepersdorf, Anne Frechen, offers white roses for the foreigners; artist Isabella Gresser quotes the German saying: “Whoever places a pillow under a stranger’s head, when in need will find a bed.”

To submit your Wish-Cushions, see our Wish-Cushion initiative!

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The artist-pages for DISPLACED 2015 are now live at schlachten.org/artists

We’ve received a large number of excellent submissions, which we are excited to share with you! Artists entires are still being added and we are in the process of translating them into German.

The festival launch is approaching fast – one month to go!

Put the date in your diaries: The Mendelsohn Hall, Luckenwalde, Saturday 13th of June at 16:00

Programme of Events:

13th June, 16:00: Official Launch and panel discussion at the Mendelsohn Hall.
14th June, 16:00: Maharaj Trio performance at the Mendelsohn Hall.
20th/21st June: “Board Game” with Johanna Speidel & Chus López Vidal at the Mendelsohn Hall.
10th July, 19:00: theater 89 performance at the Mendelsohn Hall.
12th July: Logothetis Ensemble concert at Schloss Wiepersdorf.

Our resident artists, local Syrian immigrant artist Khaled Al-boushi and Italian-Spanish artist Angiola Bonnani who has arrived at our Oehna headquarters, are both busy at work. Renowned Polish researcher Jan M Piskorski has arrived at Schloss Wiepersdorf to begin his research-residency for our festival, the Refugees KM are busy composing the music for the launch, and a representative of the German Red Cross has been to the Mendelsohn Hall to discuss the installation of their refugee tents within the hall as part of our exhibition.

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And last but not least, we would like to remind locals of our Wish-Cushion initiative!

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There will be a panel discussion with international artists and historians, music and performance, including a cello piece by the The Refugees KM, as well as wine and appetisers.

We look forward to seeing you all. Further details will be continuously added here.

On the 14th of June at 16:00 there will be a concert by the renowned Maharaj Trio from India.

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