20. 2. - 25. 4. 2025
Sudetendeutsches Haus, Hochstrasse 8, Munich, Germany.
Remembering the past and learning from it is important. Students of the Studio of Type Design and Typography at UMPRUM focused on this through their project documenting the headstones of Sudeten Germans, which has become part of the exhibition "Weint nicht, es giebt ein Wiederseh´n. Grabsteine - Zeugen deutsch-tschechischer Geschichte. Don't cry, we'll meet again. Headstone witnesses of Czech-German history" at the Sudeten German Museum in Munich.
Students of the Studio of Type Design and Typography, together with the heads of the studio Filip Kraus and Jan Čumlivski, have been documenting the graves of Sudeten Germans in cemeteries in the Czech border region for the past two years. They were not only interested in the graphic design of the gravestones, but above all in reviving and preserving memory. Through the technique of frottage, they took hundreds of impressions of tombstones.The results of their work were first presented at a large solo exhibition at the Nisa Factory in Jablonec.The Munich exhibition Weint nicht, es giebt ein Wiederseh´n builds on the collective German-Czech memory and the effort to care for the gravestones of displaced people in both countries. It works with a selection of several thematic projects that illustrate basic considerations and offer different perspectives on a common theme.Included among them is a selection of the aforementioned project of the UMPRUM Studio of Type Design and Typography "Hier ruht begraben / Here he rests in peace".
The exhibition was supported by:
Bavarian State Ministry for Family, Labour, and Social Affairs, Czech-German Future Fund, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.
The event was organized by the Sudetendeutsche Heimatpflege, and the Adalbert Stifter Association - Cultural Institute for Bohemia in cooperation with JUKON, a youth organization for German minorities in the Czech Republic, and the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague.
