VORWÄRTS IMMER, RÜCKWÄRTS AUCH – DEINE GESCHICHTE, DEIN LEBEN. Eine intergenerationale biografische Comic- und Schreibwerkstatt für Jugendliche und Senior*innen (mit Jeff Hemmer, Bremen & Silke Tobeler, Hamburg)
Telling your own life story and sharing experiences plays an important role in all relationships and at all ages, and it brings people together. Older people have a wealth of life experience that is worth hearing and recording, as do young people. By combining comics and text, personal experiences and memories could be expressed in a unique way. The resulting comics and texts created valuable and creative mementos that stimulated and will continue to stimulate exchange between the generations. Part of the workshop also included a visit to Bibo Pieschen to gain insight into the genres of graphic novels and comics. Seniors from the Dresden Senior Academy also took part in the workshop.
A selection of the resulting works can be viewed until June 9 in the window display area of DresdnerNachbarschaft60plus. When the office is open, additional works can also be viewed indoors. A report on the contents of the workshop will be recorded in June at COLORADIO Dresden so that it can be made available to the public in a radio broadcast.
When: Monday, May 19 to Saturday, May 24, 2025, starting each morning at around 10 a.m. and ending at around 4 p.m.
Where: GEH8 seminar room, Gehestr. 8, 01127 Dresden
The workshop is free of charge. Materials will be provided.
Here you can find more information about Jeff Hemmer!
Here you can find more information about Silke Tobeler!
This project was carried out in collaboration with the Pieschen Library, DrednerNachbarschaft60plus, 145th Secondary School, and the Dresden Senior Citizens’ Academy.
Thank you very much!