Katrin Hattenhauer

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Full Name	Katrin Hattenhauer
Occupation	Painter
Date Of Birth	Nov 10, 1968(1968-11-10)
Age	56
Birthplace	Nordhausen
Country	Germany
Horoscope	Scorpio

Katrin Hattenhauer Biography

Katrin Hattenhauer is one of the most popular and richest Painter who was born on November 10, 1968 in Nordhausen, Germany. Katrin Hattenhauer (born 10 November 1968 in Nordhausen, Thueringen) is a German artist and activist for civil rights. In the late 1980s , she was part of the GDR opposition movement. On the 4th of September, 1989, she walked “For an Open Country with Free People” to mark the start of Monday protests in Leipzig. Her social sculptures and paintings were exhibited throughout Europe.

On the 4th of September, 1989, she launched, along alongside Gesine Oltmanns, an protest at the front of Nikolaichurch following on the day of Peace Prayer held there. The two women had made four banners and sneaked them into the church, defying their surveillance of the Stasi. As they walked out onto the square where they were greeted by the public, the two women unfolded their banners that read “Fur ein offenes land with Freie Menschen’ (For an Open Country with Free People) and other activists followed them with other banners.

In 1991 she helped to establish the Archiv Bürgerbewegung Leipzig (The Archiv Bürgerbewegung received the German National Award in 2015), working on the board. On 8 October 2000 she and Jochen Läßig, another dissident, opened the “Lichtfest” (Festival of Light) in Leipzig, speaking in front of 200.000 people to remember the crucial turning point in 1989. On 7 November 2014 Katrin Hattenhauer spoke at Germany’s ceremonial act, celebrating the 25 year anniversary of the fall of the wall and German reunification at the Brandenburg Gate. There, she addressed the younger generation, urging them to ‘take their freedom and live their dreams. The touring exhibition ‘Revolution is female’ recognizes her and other women’s contributions to the Peaceful Revolution 1989.

On the following Monday, 11 September, Katrin Hattenhauer was targeted demonstrating on Nikolaisquare and arrested together with other protesters and put in the Stasi-prison at Leipzig Beethoven Strasse, where she was imprisoned until 13.10.1089. In prison she was kept in solitary confinement for most of the time and interrogated brutally. Yet, on each following Monday more and more people joined the Mondaydemonstrations in Leipzig, contributing decisively to the eventual downfall of the GDR regime. Regular services and public vigils in different cities of the GDR called for the release of the unjustly imprisoned. Thus, focal points of protest developed, accelerating the democratic revolution. Katrin Hattenhauer was well known in opposition-circles and church-groups in the GDR, she had participated in the Oecomenical Convention and taken part in trans-regional ecological seminars. She was the Leipzig contact person to the ecological library (Umweltbibliothek) a meeting point of the opposition groups in East-Berlin.

Katrin Hattenhauer often comments on the Peaceful Revolution 1989 and questions of German unity. In addition, she is a frequent guest on television, radio and often at schools to answer questions on the courage of civil society. She serves as a member of the board of directors for the Kreisau- Initiative and also on an historical committee of the foundation Krzyzowa/Kreisau in Poland. In October, she launched an open letter by ex-East German dissidents to Angela Merkel, supporting a policy of opening frontiers for refugees seeking asylum in the political realm. It was released by Deutsche Welle in English, French, Russian and Spanish.

Katrin Hattenhauer Net Worth

Katrin Hattenhauer is one of the richest Painter from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Katrin Hattenhauer 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Katrin Hattenhauer was not allowed to sit for the Abitur the German examinations for secondary schools. After completing her schooling, she became an animator at the local theater in her hometown [Nordhausenin the state of Northhausen. After that, she worked in the Wittenberg research center of the Eastern German churches. She also was a part-time employee with Zionsparish. Zionsparish situated in Dresden. In 1988, she started study at the church-run theological college in Leipzig. But, because of her political activism and other activities – including that she was distributing pamphlets to protests in January 1989 The GDR government attempted to pressure the church to make her to quit the school and she eventually did. Katrin Hattenhauer was an active member of the ‘Arbeitskreis Rechtigkeit’ (Working Committee Justice) An independent opposition group based in Leipzig that formed part of the group “Initiative Frieden and Human Rights” (Initiative Frieden and Human Rights). In addition, she was involved on Mondays during Peaceprayers in the Nikolaichurch which was coordinated by the pastor Christoph Wonneberger.

Following the Peaceful Revolution Katrin Hattenhauer became an artist. Her first show “Magical Theatre” was opened at her apartment situated in Leipzig in 9.December 1989. The exhibitions have been held across Europe and America. United States. The secretary general of the annual nationwide Protestant meeting (Deutscher Protestantischer Kirchentag), Ellen Ueberschar, said of her work: “Hattenhauer’s art is not GDR-art, not art of the GDR, it is an answer to the GDR, it is the ‘even though’ of an art that says ‘Yes’ to freedom against all odds.” Her abstract paintings are focused on human emotions as well as freedom and civil involvement. Her late friend Freya Von Moltke wrote of her work: “In the years prior to and in the years around 1989, Katrin Hattenhauer has dared to assert her freedom and witnessed what freedom can mean to the future of her own life. From this experience her art reflects the greatest courage and happiness in everyday life.” Katrin Hattenhauer, continually works with children by using her art to address the issues of personal freedom and courage in the civil sphere. In recent years Katrin Hattenhauer has turned towards and focusing on the installation of art that addresses various social and political issues. “Lichtgestalten” about role models, Mannheim 2012, “Mullwiese” (Rubbish Meadow) Hamburg shed a light artistically on the ocean’s pollution by plastic waste, and “Uber Das Verschwinden (On Disappearing), London and Leipzig brought awareness to how political activists are killed. She is currently associated with an organization called the Social Sculpture Unit, Brookes University Oxford.

Together with the former songwriter Jochen Läßig, who had been ex-matriculated from the theological university Leipzig due to his political activity, she organised the first street music festival in the city centre of Leipzig. The festival took place on 10 June 1989. However, the festival had been illegal and numerous contributors, visitors, and pedestrians were arrested. Importantly, the street festival was the first occasion in the GDR on which passers-by solidarised themselves with political dissidents.

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