QueerHistoryMonth | Mehr Pferde als Frauen? Ein Augmented Reality Denkmal für Lida Gustava Heymann

• City Walks

Around 90 percent of all monuments worldwide commemorate male, white and mostly heterosexual personalities. Do new media such as augmented reality promise a solution? The Körber Foundation's eCommemoration program installed the first permanently walkable augmented reality monument on the Rathausmarkt in 2023 and dedicated it to the Hamburg women's rights activist Lida Gustava Heymann.

To this day, Heymann is considered a feminist leader of the radical bourgeois women's movement in the Empire. She mobilized for peace at the end of the First World War, called for Hitler's expulsion from Germany during the Weimar Republic and had to flee to Switzerland with her life partner Anita Augsburg after the National Socialist victory.

On the tour to the Augmented Reality Monument, we would like to talk to those interested about apprenticeships in our culture of remembrance set in stone and address the relationship between the early women's movement and lesbian life.

During QueerHistoryMonth, various Hamburg LGBTIQ* projects and cultural institutions, museums, archives and individuals offer a wide range of events. The QHM is a joint project of Hamburg's queer community that aims to promote engagement with historical and current queer issues.
QueerHistoryMonth Hamburg: www.queerhistoryhamburg.de
Event overview: www.queerhistoryhamburg.de/ events

Implementing organization: Körber Foundation (www.koerber-stiftung.de)
Speaker: Morgana Fischer
Costs: none
Registration: required www.queerhistoryhamburg.de/ events
Meeting point: Heinrich Heine Monument, Rathausmarkt, 20095 Hamburg

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please bring your own iOS device (iPhone or iPad) with you for the tour. The augmented reality experience is currently only accessible on Apple mobile devices.