Four decades ago, Hanka Grupińska began recording the voices of Jewish resistance. On the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, renowned journalist Hanka Grupińska presents her book at the Center for Persecuted Arts in Solingen.

Benjamin Britten (1913—1976): Three Divertimenti for String Quartet

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756—1791): “A musical fun” Divertimento in F major for strings and two horns K. 522

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827): Sextet in E flat major for two horns and strings op. 81b

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Do you know Else Lasker-Schüler? She will be known to most as a poet, but she also drew and exhibited in well-known galleries. Our art mediators bring you closer to artists who have been forgotten over the last few decades. Her biographies are characterized by various forms of persecution and her artistic works have been blocked, prevented and partly destroyed by dictatorships and totalitarian regimes. The exhibition “Blickwechsel” also shows the diversity of female Jewish artists in the age of extremes.

Rocko Schamoni talks to us on the occasion of the exhibition “Unlock your head at last! — Dada as political art between the World Wars” about Dada, nonsense, absurdity and humor as a means of style and struggle in art.