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Sep 12, 2025 | 18:00 Koeppenhaus - Literaturzentrum Other

Kulturnacht - Wir feiern Hans Christian Andersen mit Vernissage & Scherenworkshop & Druckworkshop 18-22 Uhr

Scissors, words, paper - Hans Christian Andersen. The wanderer between fantasy and reality.

6-10 p.m. in the Koeppenhaus Gallery & Silhouette, stencil printing workshop, admission donation
Café Koeppen is open until 10 p.m.

"Life is not enough!" said the butterfly. "You have to have sunshine, freedom and a little flower!" (from "The Butterfly" by Hans Christian Andersen)

Long opening evening of the exhibition on the 220th birthday of Hans Christian Andersen with his fairy tale worlds and silhouettes as well as with
works by contemporary artists. Kat Menschik, Ruth Tesmar, Grazyna Lupa, Anne Wende, Christel Hoff, Günter Grass and their works on Hans Christian Andersen. Exhibition design and works on paper: Xenia Hufschmidt

Accompanying in the hall of the Koeppenhaus
Trying out silhouettes for adults with Szczecin artist Grażyna Lupa and translator Marta Matusiak
Stencil printing workshop with the artist Anne Wende from Western Pomerania with motifs by Andersen. You are welcome to bring light-colored fabric to print on.

Tip:
Sat, 13.09. from 10.30-12.30 Try out silhouettes for children and families with Szczecin artist Grażyna Lupa and translator Marta Matusiak as well as stencil printing with Anne Wende

Exhibition duration until 24.10.2025, open Tue-Fri, 2-6 pm, free admission

Tip: For the Fantakel Festival, we will be showing the Hans Christian Andersen play "The Nightingale" with the Seebühne Hiddensee on Sun, 28.09.2025 at 19.00, the artist Ruth Tesmar (Schwerin), who designed the stage set, will be present, we will open the exhibition before and after the play and after the play we can talk to Ruth Tesmar and puppeteer Karl Huck in the gallery about the work on "The Nightingale".

An event as part of the ID: Pomerania project, funded by the Interreg VI A cooperation program Mecklenburg-Vorpommern / Brandenburg / Poland 2021-2027.

Picture credits: (c) Kat Menschik
Koeppenhaus - Literaturzentrum Bahnhofstr. 4/5 17489 Greifswald 0 38 34 - 77 35 10
Picture credits: IKAZ e.V.

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