Petra Lux

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Petra Lux (born 1956 in Hermsdorf, Thuringia) is a German civil rights activist, journalist, novelist, Taichi and Qigong teacher.

Biography[]

Petra Lux grew up in a Catholic family and studied 1976–1980 Journalism at the Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig. As a journalist she saw in the GDR no opportunity to realize their ideals, so they became involved as a youth clubhouse director of "Jörgen Schmidtchen" in Leipzig-Schönefeld for difficult youngsters, events organized literary evenings with non-conformist artists like Franz Fühmann and Wolfgang Hilbig[1] and songwriters with critical texts. She founded the first women's center in a state House of Culture of the GDR, and organized, as well as the first cultural institution in the country, dance evenings for same-sex couples. She was then summarily dismissed in 1983.[2]

In their living rooms and of her husband's workshop then were held discussion groups and illegal concerts with artists who critically with the SED dictatorship grappled with, among others, Peter Gläser, , , and Dieter Kalka. Her private photo lab she set for the production of critical materials.[3]

On October 3, 1989 Petra Lux joined the Neues Forum (New Forum)[4] and was among others at its spokeswoman. [5] She was a co-signatory of the call of the New Forum of October 12, 1989: "We demand immediate, here and now, public, equal dialogue ...".[5]

1990–91 she worked as a journalist for women's issues at the DAZ (Die Andere Zeitung/The Other Newspaper) and then again as a freelance author for print and broadcast media as well as the Leipziger Dokumentar- und Kurzfilmfestival (Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Festival).[6]

Shortly before the turn she had come with Asian movement and therapy types in contact, among others, met Bert Hellinger[7] Family Constellations and trained as a Taichi teacher. From 1995, they had their own courses in Taichi, Qigong, Reiki, Family Constellations and lectures about Runes[8] in their YINYANG center in Leipzig, whose 20th anniversary was celebrated on September 6, 2015th.

Books[]

  • Die Zeit der Schmetterlinge. Eine unendliche Biografie. Roman. Vega Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-9808919-8-4.
  • as a publisher together with Erica Fischer: Ohne uns ist kein Staat zu machen. DDR-Frauen nach der Wende. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1995, ISBN 3-462-02057-9.

References[]

  1. ^ "Lausitzer Rundschau vom 13.03.2009: Wende-Aktivistin sucht ihr Zuhause in der Fremde". Archived from the original on November 19, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2015.
  2. ^ Biography of Petra Lux
  3. ^ Petra Lux at the webpage of „Leipziger Liederszene“
  4. ^ Michael Hofmann, Volker Stiehler "Wir bleiben hier" – Erinnerungen an den Leipziger Herbst 89 (Gustav-Kiepenheuer-Verlag), Interview with Petra Lux, Page 83-86
  5. ^ Aufruf des Neuen Forums vom 12.Oktober 1989
  6. ^ Biography at the Website of the Archiv Bürgerbewegung
  7. ^ Family Constellations with Petra Lux
  8. ^ "Lectures on runes with Petra Lux". Archived from the original on October 7, 2015. Retrieved November 21, 2015.

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