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Franziska Windolf



MEET THE MEMORY PERSON
︎https://vimeo.com/853045149/7710d518da City walk. Performer: Simone Kokou. The Giesing district in Munich, 2023. Image: Milena Wojhan. Close-up. Image: Milena Wojhan. City Walk. Performer: Franziska Windolf. Weissenseepark in Munich. Image: Milena Wojhan. Textile Memento by Mariam Monga. Image: Milena Wojhan. Textile memento by Olena Mytko combined with a brass memento in Russian by Franziska Windolf, with a quote paraphrasing Wladimir Nikolajewitsch Woinowitsch: 'To those, for whom the opening of borders does not mean returning home.' Image: Milena Wojhan. Textile Memento by Viktoriia Ivasyshyna combined with a brass memento in Montenegrin by Franziska Windolf with a quote paraphrasing Mirolad Vujovic : 'To those, whose mother tongue is the invisible companion of the soul.' Image: Milena Wojhan. Encountering Mr Mohamed, who wanted to contribute his embroidery to the monument (see yellow embroidery on T-shirt). Image: Leonid Hrytsak. Pepi's memento. Her dedication says in Serbian: 'Kаквото правите, то правите от серце!' In English: 'Whatever you do, do it from the heart!' Image: Leonid Hrytsak. Pepi writing down her dedication to the Performative Monument at McDonald's on Tegernseer Landstraße. Image: Leonid Hrytsak. Table tennis match with Elvin Turgut at Rheinthalerstraße. Image: Leonid Hrytsak. Memento by the Ping-Pong group, mainly consisting of Iranian and Vietnamese table tennis players. They invited the Memory Person to barbecue, to join their club and conversation. Unfortunately, the group disbanded for unknown reasons in July 2023. According to coach Patrick, the round shape of the ball connects to the core of the human being. It can be damaged in life but remains recognizable to oneself and others if one listens to the soul. A match can have creative-therapeutic effects and dissolve aggression and emotional blockages. Image: Leonid Hrytsak. Iriet Yusuf and her primary school pupils from Giesing contributing their Lion memento. According to the resilience trainer, it symbolizes inner strength and positive togetherness, consisting of thank-you letters and pictures from pupils and parents from different countries and cultures. Image: Leonid Hrytsak. Close-up. Image: Leonid Hrytsak.


City-Walk, selection of sites

A mural at Silberhornstraße 6. In 2020, the associations Real and Soziale Stadt Giesing, publicly called on people to propose symbols of Giesing for the wall design. The Giesing legend Hans Steyrer was one of the favorites for the design; he was one of the 'Munich Originals' who inspired the Memory Person. Image: Milena Wojhan. War memorial by Hans Lindl, built in 1929. The Giesing Denk(t)mal initiative led by the artist Wolfram P. Kastner has demanded a redesign of the memorial. So far, the cultural department of the city of Munich and the district committee of Obergiesing-Fasangarten have rejected all proposed changes. Image: Milena Wojhan. Searching for traces at Weinbauernstraße 9. In the 1820s, the Dick family from the Palatinate opened the restaurant Zum Weinbauern, where the parish hall of the Luther Church is now located. The restaurant was a popular meeting place for local and travelling intellectuals and artists. From the end of the 1920s, the restaurant served as a clubhouse for the Giesing National Socialists. After 1933, the Reichszeugmeisterei, the NSDAP's largest office building, was built on the adjacent Tegernseer Landstraße. Image: Milena Wojhan. Selfie with Bogdan in the backyard of Weissenseestraße 7. The Memory Person goes in search of the exile and migration stories of former employees of the Agfa factory and their families. During the Second World War, Agfa ran a satellite camp in Weißenseestraße where forced labourers were imprisoned. After the war, Agfa recruited numerous guest workers. In the years leading up to its insolvency in 2008, parts of the company premises were handed over to the Bavarian state and a home for asylum seekers was set up in Untersbergstraße. Image: Milena Wojhan.


Workshop 1 at Gorod e.V. sewing studio Munich in May, 2023


Eliza Kokeyan, Mariam Monga, Mareike Schwarz, Viktoriia Ivasyshyna, Olena Mytko, Natalia Shynkarova, Franziska Windolf (f.l.t.r.). Image: Leonid Hrytsak. Workshop participant Viktoriia Ivasyshyna with mementoes created during the workshop at the Gorod e.V. sewing studio Munich, 2023. Image: Mareike Schwarz.


Workshop 2 at FLORIDA Lothringer 13 in November, 2023


Workshop participants Maisoun Alfawarati, Iriet Yusuf, Mehmet "Schlosser", Elvin Turgut und Seb (f.l.t.r.). Image: Tom Hauzenberger. Maisoun Alfarawati preparing the letters for her textile memento (see below): 'To everyone, who does not know me.' Image: Tom Hauzenberger. Iriet Yusuf with her contribution to the Performative Monument. Image: Tom Hauzenberger. Mehmet "Schlosser" working on a piece in collaboration with his daughter, Elvin Turgut: 'INSAN OLMAK MÜHIM /MENSCH SEIN IST WICHTIG.' Image: Tom Hauzenberger.

‘Meet the Memory Person: Workshop, Open Studio and Conversation’ at FLORIDA Lothringer 13 Munich from 12.-18.11.2023


Objects in the foreground: Ksenia Bykovsky_Axolotl; Franziska Windolf with a quote paraphrasing Juvenal Morales Flores_'To those, who don't know what to give in a new place.'; Nicolas Wannenmacher_Blast From The Past. Image: Tom Hauzenberger. Headgear by Natalia Shynkarova. Image: Tom Hauzenberger. Leonid Hrytsak_Scuba Santa - For Peace's Sake; Franziska Windolf with a quote paraphrasing Adnan Al-Dhahir_'To those, who build stability from within'; Iriet Yusuf and her primary school pupils from Giesing_Lion. Image: Tom Hauzenberger. Liana Chernetska_Live TODAY so that you could be remembered TOMORROW; Maisoun Alfarawati_To everyone who doesn't know me; Anick Messerschmitt_The open eye. Image: Tom Hauzenberger. Olena Mytko_Accessory; Franziska Windolf with a quote paraphrasing Wladimir Nikolajewitsch Woinowitsch_'To those, for whom opening the borders does not mean returning home.'; Manuel Friedrich_Stardust; Smadlmachts_Dahoam; Anonymous_Lover of order; Miriam Worek_Collected values; Ping-Pong group_Core. Image: Tom Hauzenberger. Elvin Turgut and Mehmet "Schlosser"_Scroll; Iriet Yusuf_Who are you? And you? Where are you from?; Mariam Monga_Hat; Su Turhan_Writing room; Memory person_Pennants. Image: Tom Hauzenberger. Eliza Kokeyan_To be worn on the heart; Miriam Worek_To those who should be listened to; Su Turhan_Smoker; Pepi_Whatever you do, do it from the heart!; Franziska Windolf with a quote paraphrasing Wladimir Nikolajewitsch Woinowitsch_'To those, who wander between worlds.' Image: Tom Hauzenberger. Viktoriia Ivasyshyna_Signs of the way; Franziska Windolf with a quote paraphrasing Milorad Vujovic_'To those, whose mother tongue is the invisible companion of the soul.' Image: Tom Hauzenberger. Conversation with Sebastian Klawiter, Burcu Dogramaci, Cathrine Bublatzky and Franziska Windolf (f.l.t.r.). Image: Tom Hauzenberger. Welcome words by Tunay Önder. Image: Tom Hauzenberger. Video screening 'Meet the Memory Person - a performative monument'. Image: Tom Hauzenberger.
   

Ein performatives Monument von Anick Messerschmitt, Eliza Kokeyan, Elvin Turgut, Franziska Windolf mit Zitaten nach Adnan Al-Dhahir, Haydar Isik, Ivan Binar, Milorad Vujovic, Wladimir Nikolajewitsch Woinowitsch; Iriet Yusuf, Iriet Yusuf und ihre Schuler*innen in Giesing, Ksenia Bykovsky, Leonid Hrytsak, Liana Chernetska, Maisoun Alfarawati, Manuel Friedrich, Mariam Monga, Mehmet, Miriam Worek, Natalia Shynkarova, Nicolas Wannenmacher, Olena Mytko, Pepi, Ping-Pong group, Seb, smadlmachts, Su Turhan, Viktoriia Ivasyshyna und einige, die wünschen, anonym zu bleiben.


Künstlerisches Konzept: Franziska Windolf
Kuration: Mareike Schwarz
Performer*innen: Lisavieta Bogushevskaya, Simone Kokou, Viviana Iacob, Franziska Windolf.


Der Erinnerungsmensch agierte als ein Performatives Monument im Zeitraum Juli - Oktober 2023 in Giesing. Seine Figur verbindet ein bewahrendes Gedenken an exilierte kreative Personen mit Bezug zu München mit einer performativen Präsenz im Stadtraum. Diese erlaubt, Erinnerungen von heutigen Bewohner*innen des Stadtteils aktiv zu sammeln und unterrepräsentierte kreative Arbeit sowie Lebensgeschichten sichtbar zu machen.

Im Rahmen eines kuratierten City-Walks zu Orten mit Exil- und Migrationsgeschichte in Giesing (z.B. Gelände des ehemaligen Agfa Kamerawerks) initiiert der Erinnerungsmensch zufällige Begegnungen und Interaktionen mit den heutigen Anwohner*innen. In Anlehnung an den “Reklamemenschen” nach Karl Valentin, der als Hausierer von Haus zu Haus ging, heftet sich der Erinnerungsmensch auf seinem Spaziergang durchs Viertel Widmungs- und Erinnerungsobjekte an seine Kleidung. Umgekehrt werden diese im Tausch gegen Erinnerungen an Passant*innen verschenkt, sodass sich unterschiedliche Formen des Gedenkens miteinander verweben und das Gedenken aktiviert und vielstimmiger wird.


Text in English online:
https://www.globaldisconnect.org/12/12/not-only-cast-steel-or-chiselled-stone-people-can-be-monuments-too-an-exploration-of-the-memory-person/


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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No 724649-METROMOD).
This project was developed within Franziska Windolf’s fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect and was initiated by the ERC project ‘Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile (METROMOD)’.