We are part of culture

Exhibition in the main train station of Freiburg im Breisgau

WE ARE P ART OF CULTURE (WAPOC), subtitles * The prominent contribution of LGBTTIQ in social development in Europe is an art exhibition of the nonprofit project 100% MAN , as traveling exhibition was conceived and in the years 2017-2019 in railway stations of Deutsche Bahn shown becomes. In the foreword to the exhibition catalog, Federal Minister Katarina Barley explained that the exhibition shows "extraordinary lives, the pioneering work and the scientific and cultural achievements of lesbian , gay , bisexual , trans and intersexual (LGBTI) people."

The art exhibition WE ARE P ART OF CULTURE shows over 30 LGBTTIQ * personalities from antiquity to the 20th century, who have had a lasting impact on European society and culture. The portraits of the personalities, such as B. Virginia Woolf, Alan Turing, Friedrich II. Of Prussia, Christina of Sweden, Lili Elbe and Selma Lagerlöf were featured by nationally and internationally known artists such as B. Ralf König (Cologne), Robert W. Richards (NY), Gerda Laufenberg (Cologne), Anne Bengard (Berlin) specially created for the exhibition. The styles used from ink, acrylic, stencil and drawing to cartoon and illustration are as varied as the personalities presented.

Portrayed personalities and artists

Anita Augspurg	Tanja Prill, Hamm
Lida Gustava Heymann	Oliver Kahl and Tanja Prill, Hamm
Hannah Höch	Andreas Veitschegger, Bergisch Gladbach
Käthe Kollwitz	Jens Emde, Cologne
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf	Lars Deike, Berlin
Florence Nightingale	Swen Marcel, Berlin
Ethel Smyth	Katja Strube, Cologne
Greta Garbo	Robert W. Richards, New York
Marlene Dietrich	Robert W. Richards, New York
Gertrud Bäumer	Tobias Corner, Berlin
Helene Lange	Tobias Corner, Berlin
Virginia Woolf	Chris Fleming, New Castle
Sappho	Ralf König, Cologne
Simone de Beauvoir	Gerda Laufenberg, Cologne
Charlotte Wolff	Tobias Corner, Berlin
Therese Giehse	Felix Kindelán, Basel
Alexander the Great	Ralf König, Cologne
Sir Francis Bacon	Felix Kindelán, Basel
Robert St. S. Baden-Powell	Katja Strube, Cologne
Friedrich II of Prussia	Jens Emde, Cologne
Magnus Hirschfeld	Frank Maier, Stuttgart
John Maynard Keynes	Robert Nippoldt, Münster
Leonardo da Vinci	Andreas Veitschegger, Bergisch Gladbach
Freddie Mercury	Robert W. Richards, New York
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben	Oliver Kahl and Tanja Prill, Hamm
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Gerda Laufenberg, Cologne
Alan Turing	Chris Fleming, New Castle
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs	Lars Deike, Berlin
Oscar Wilde	Swen Marcel, Berlin
Thomas , Erika , Golo and Klaus Mann (family portrait)	Norbert Egdorf, Oldenburg
James-Miranda Barry	Anne Bengard, Berlin
Christina of Sweden	Jeanne Lessenich, Waldorf
Chevalier d'Éon de Beaumont	Jeanne Lessenich, Waldorf
Eduard Oberg	Tobias Corner, Berlin
Lili Elbe	Anne Bengard, Berlin

Exhibition locations

The exhibition started on September 27, 2017 in Berlin and was then shown in the cities of Frankfurt am Main , Cologne , Düsseldorf , Duisburg , Essen , Bochum , Mainz , Dresden , Karlsruhe , Dortmund , Stuttgart , Munich , Münster , Mannheim , Berlin Ostbahnhof, Nuremberg and Freiburg shown. Further exhibitions are planned for 2019.

advancement

The exhibition WE ARE P ART OF CULTURE is organized by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth as part of the federal program "Live Democracy!" and the Federal Agency for Civic Education.

literature

We are part of culture. The defining contribution of LGBTTIQ * to the social development of Europe. Art exhibition 2017 - 2019 of the project 100% Mensch , exhibition catalog, 2nd edition, Stuttgart: 100% Mensch-Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-981-917505

Web links

Commons : We are Part of Culture - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ We are Part of Culture. The defining contribution of LGBTTIQ * to the social development of Europe. Art exhibition 2017 - 2019 of the project 100% Mensch , exhibition catalog, 2nd edition, Stuttgart: 100% Mensch-Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-981-917505 , p. 8f.
↑ WAPOC on Tour , in: We are Part of Culture ... , catalog, p. 7

[1] We are Part of Culture. The defining contribution of LGBTTIQ * to the social development of Europe. Art exhibition 2017 - 2019 of the project 100% Mensch , exhibition catalog, 2nd edition, Stuttgart: 100% Mensch-Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-981-917505 , p. 8f.

[2] WAPOC on Tour , in: We are Part of Culture ... , catalog, p. 7