Name: Übern Zaun – Gärten und Menschen
Start: 2026-03-03T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-03T18:00:00+01:00

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When we think of gardens, we think of leisure and relaxation in nature, of freedom and self-realization. But green spaces also serve other purposes: people who garden show their skills, their taste, their economic and social status. In this way, the garden becomes an expression of identity.

The Leipzig author Stefan Schwarz has not only tested this out on his own body, but has also written two books about his experiences. "Allotment gardening is the most species-appropriate form of keeping Homo sapiens," he stated in 2019 in his humorous self-awareness volume "The Little Garden Failure" - although in this book he collected all sorts of errors and moments of failure from his life as an allotment gardener. Shortly before the start of spring, Schwarz's second report from the allotment, "Nasty Creatures," will be published. At the Leipzig Contemporary History Forum, on the occasion of the opening of the temporary exhibition "Over the Fence - Gardens and People," he will be talking to Beatrice Schwartner (MDR-Kultur) about changing gardening happiness, the social space of allotment gardening associations, and the question of why the gardener is always a better person at the end of the day.

The exhibition will be open from March 19, 2025 to January 31, 2027.

Info: www.hdg.de

Tuesday, the 17.06.2025

10: 00 - 18: 00

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Wednesday, the 18.06.2025

10: 00 - 18: 00

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Thursday, the 19.06.2025

10: 00 - 18: 00

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