35 Jahre Kampf um historische Wahrheit und Demokratie
[The Other Russia. MEMORIAL: 35 Years of Struggle for Historical Truth and Democracy]

 

• Duration: 13 November 2026 – 24 January 2027

• Location: Bibliotheca Albertina (Exhibition Room), Beethovenstraße 6, 04107 Leipzig

• Opening Hours: Mon–Wed 10 am–6 pm | Thu–Sun 10 am–9 pm

• Admission: free

• Further information: ub.uni-leipzig.de/memorial
  Note: The Bibliotheca Albertina website is currently temporarily unavailable due to a cyberattack.

   

Exhibition Opening

• Date & Time: Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 5:00 pm

• Location: Lecture Hall of the Bibliotheca Albertina

• Followed by a reception and a guided tour through the exhibition.

Opening Program (Language: German)

• Welcome Address
  Dr. Anne Lipp (Director of Leipzig University Library, UBL)
   

• Greetings / Opening Remarks
  Prof. Dr. Brigitte Latzko (Vice-Rector for Talent Development: Study and Teaching)
  Prof. Dr. Julia Herzberg (Deputy Director of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, GWZO)
   

• Panel Discussion: »The Other Russia? Opposition and Dissent Yesterday and Today«
  Prof. Dr. Irina Scherbakowa (Chair of Zukunft MEMORIAL e. V.)
  Dr. Franziska Davies (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History)
  Prof. Dr. Gwendolyn Sasse (Scientific Director of the Centre for East European and International Studies)
  Chair / Moderator: Dr. Timm Schönfelder (GWZO)
   

• Introduction to leipzigzwo #11 (Language: German)
  Dr. Almuth Märker (Curator of the exhibition, Research Associate at the Special Collections Competence Centre of the UBL) 
  Parallel Exhibition: Simultaneously with the traveling exhibition, the exhibition leipzigzwo #11: Samizdat. Magazines Against the Current opens in the anteroom of the exhibition room.

   

 

Accompanying Program for the Exhibition

 

19 November 2026 | 3:30 pm 
Location: GWZO, Specks Hof (Entrance A), Reichsstr. 4–6 
»In the Footsteps of Communism« (Language: German) 
A thematic city tour featuring a keynote lecture by PD Dr. Sabine Stach (GWZO), followed by a city walk with Prof. Dr. Arnold Bartetzky (GWZO). 

03 December 2026 | 6:00 pm 
Location: Lecture Hall of the Bibliotheca Albertina 
»Resist Not Evil with Violence - The Idea of Human Rights in Moscow Literary and Dissident Circles of the 1960s« (Language: German) 
Lecture by Dr. Olga Rosenblum | Moderation: Dr. Stephan Krause (GWZO)

07 December 2026 | 6:00 pm 
Location: Lecture Hall of the Bibliotheca Albertina 
»Memorial and Forbidden Remembrance« (Language: German) 
Discussion and film screening with Oleg Orlov and Elena Zhemkova.

12 January 2027 | 6:00 pm 
Location: Lecture Hall of the Bibliotheca Albertina 
»Oral History of Soviet & Nazi Terror in Ukraine« (Language: English) 
Lecture by Daria Reznyk (GWZO).

21 January 2027 | 6:00 pm 
Location: Fürstenzimmer of the Bibliotheca Albertina 
»Clio in War. Russian Politics of History and Memory as a Weapon since 2014/22« (Language: German) 
Lecture  by Prof. Dr. Julia Herzberg (GWZO).

 

Organizer: Bibliotheca Albertina

Location: Bibliotheca Albertina (Ausstellungsraum), Beethovenstraße 6, 04107 Leipzig