Workshop “Le Camp des Milles”

Art and Resistance (Lion Feuchtwanger, Max Ernst, Karl Bodek, etc.)

Age group: 14 years – … (adaptable, also for adults)

Distinction: Prize « Prix Ilan Halimi contre les discriminations et l’antisémitisme » (10.000,-€) by the Conseil général de l’Essonne (France), February 2014

Working materials (inter alia):

• Extracts from primary text sources linked to the biographies of former internees/deportees (memoirs, diaries, letters, etc.)
• Extracts from the book Ungracious France (Le diable en France) by Lion Feuchtwanger (1941)
• Photos of artworks created by former internees/deportees: Max Ernst, Hans Bellmer, Robert Liebknecht, Gustav Ehrlich called “Gus”, Ferdinand Springer, Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze called “Wols”, Max Lingner and Karl Bodek
• Extracts from secondary text sources: scientific publications, information provided by the memorial, extracts from regional and international print media
• historic photos – current photos from the “Camp Milles” which, since September 2013, accomodates a memorial site
• the metaphor of the BRICK and the SHADDOW
• the phenomenon of TRACES