Ravensbrueck

A motivation letter - specific to this project - is required. Program: In this year, the project in Ravensbrück will continue to connect practical work and study with youth meetings. In the memorial, there are many possibilities to read about the history of the women’s concentration camp and about the background of fascism. Volunteers can use materials from the library and the archives in different languages. A main topic for the study part will be the special camp, where the participants work. A “Listening Lab” workshop is planned (Sound Installation), for four days. An artist will explain and coordinate the workshop. His intention is to focus on not only seeing but also on listening to the former place of the Nazi time and the nowadays Memorial. What can we hear, which sounds are we creating ourselves? Please bring along an object, which you would like to integrate into this sound installation and / or a musical instrument. You will also participate in the 13th “Ravensbruecker Genereationenforum”, a meeting with former inmates from Israel, Hungary and England, from 15 to 18 August. Other participants will be another workcamp and students from Poland and Germany. Your sound performance will be presented in the Generationenforum. The group will do some maintaining work on the area of the women's concentration camp. There are many different tasks to be done: cleaning the area of wild growing vegetation, environmental work and investigation work. Your help will be needed to clean sculptures, to prepare a working site and to do other works outside.