Invite you to help design the mobile wardrobe (from left): Citizen’s Office area manager Monika Leonhardt, exhibition curator Dorothee Ader, designer Paula Schulenburg and Stefan Soltek, director of the Klingspormuseum.
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Many a memory brings back feelings of yesteryear even after years – like those of Stefan Soltek, director of the Klingspormuseum. “All the boys wore a blue suit to communion. Only I got a red and green dotted tweet jacket. ”Today he can laugh about it:“ God knows what my mother was thinking. ”
Offenbach – There are clothes that the wearer will remember for a lifetime. The wedding dress, for example. Or what you wore on the first day of school. Clothes reveal a lot. About our identity, history, cultural background. The mobile wardrobe collects these stories and invites you to participate. The project of the “KulturRegion Rhein-Main” with the appropriate annual theme “Clothing, Freedom, Identity – yesterday and today” travels through the region and is now stopping for three weeks at the Offenbach citizens’ office. In cooperation with the Klingspormuseum, a small, interactive exhibition is being created in a place that is lively but otherwise rather sober.
“We are always happy when we are visible elsewhere in the city, and this is the best place for a promotion,” says museum director Soltek. Monika Leonhardt, Head of Customer Management at the Citizens’ Office, is also pleased about the unusual cooperation: “Our customers are personalities with a wide variety of clothes. It’s exciting to learn about the stories behind it. We are happy to make our space available for this. “
Exhibition curator Dorothee Ader, together with Offenbach designer Paula Schulenburg, fitted out the wandering cupboard, which was built by HfG graduate Max Brück from a wardrobe from the 1950s. In it you can now find items of clothing made of paper, from simple tops to flowing wedding dresses, which invite you to take a few minutes after the citizens’ office. Questions like “Are people judged by their clothing?” Or “Has your style of clothing changed over time?” Provide food for thought. Then visitors can take a piece of paper and write down their thoughts. In addition to pen and paper, a typewriter is also available. “It’s another special experience to write on it,” says curator Ader. If you want, you can take a pair of scissors and paper and cut your own clothes for the closet.
“I can’t give away my children’s first body”, says a piece of paper, another tells of the memory of starting school: “I was wearing a dress with pink stripes. I really wanted to have a tight belt with it so that it looked like a princess. ”On a shelf are paper“ Wonder Woman panties ”. The memory of 1979 makes you smile: “I was three. I really wanted her because I believed I would be Wonder Woman if I wore her. “
The fragments that are created in and on the cabinet over the three weeks will be part of an exhibition in the Klingspormuseum in the coming year. “We may also make a video out of it,” says designer Schulenburg, who will be in the citizens’ office for two hours this afternoon and encourage people to participate. (By Veronika Schade)
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