Petra Lux

Petra Lux (* 1956 in Hermsdorf ) is a German civil rights activist , journalist , novelist , Taichi and Qigong teacher.

Life

Petra Lux grew up in a Catholic family and studied journalism from 1976 to 1980 at KMU Leipzig . As a journalist, she saw no opportunity in the GDR to implement her ideals, so she was the youth club manager of the "Jörgen Schmidtchen" in Leipzig- Schönefeld for young people, organized events with non-conformist artists like Franz Fühmann and Wolfgang Hilbig and songwriters with critical texts the first women's center in a state house of culture in the GDR and, also as the first cultural institution in the country, organized dance evenings for same-sex couples. She was then released without notice in 1983.

In their living rooms and the workshop of her husband then discussion groups and illegal concerts with artists took place, which is critical with the SED - dictatorship apart sat among others with Peter glasses , Radjo Monk , Juergen B. Wolff , Joachim Schäfer and Dieter Kalka . She made her private photo laboratory available for the production of critical materials.

On October 3, 1989, Petra Lux joined the New Forum and was, among other things, its spokesperson. She was one of the signatories of the New Forum's appeal on October 12, 1989 (with Michael Arnold , Edgar Dusger, Jochen Läßig, Dirk Grötsch and Martin Kind): "We demand immediately, now and here, a public, equal dialogue ...".

In 1990/91 she worked as a journalist for women's issues at the DAZ (“The Other Newspaper”) and then again as a freelance writer for print and radio media as well as for the Leipzig documentary and short film festival .

Shortly before the fall of the Wall, she came into contact with Asian types of movement and therapy, learned family constellations from Bert Hellinger and trained as a Taichi teacher. Since 1995 she has given her own courses in Taichi, Qigong, Reiki , family constellations and lectures on runes in her YINYANG center in Leipzig.

Works

• The time of the butterflies. An infinite biography . Novel . Vega Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-9808919-8-4 .
• with Erica Fischer: Without us, no state can be made. GDR women after the reunification. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1990, ISBN 3-462-02057-9 .

Web links

• Website of the yinyang center Leipzig
• Heroes of the peaceful revolution
• Brief portrait of Petra Lux

credentials

1. ↑ Wende activist is looking for her home in the Fremde Lausitzer Rundschau from March 13, 2009
2. ↑ Petra Lux's biography
3. ^ Petra Lux on the website of the Leipziger Liederszene
4. ↑ Michael Hofmann, Volker Stiehler "We stay here" - memories of the autumn of 1989 in Leipzig (Gustav-Kiepenheuer-Verlag), interview with Petra Lux, pages 83-86.
5. ^ Exit of the women's group from the New Forum
6. ^ Call of the New Forum on October 12, 1989
7. ^ Biography on the website of the Citizens Movement Archives
8. ^ Family constellations with Petra Lux
9. ↑ Lectures on runes with Petra Lux ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.