PURPOSE
- To preserve
and communicate the letters and drawings of Iver Henningsen.
The
letters and drawings of Iver Henningsen gives a rare describtion of a
soldiers´ experience at the nothern part of the Eastern Front during
World War 1 and they
deserve be preserved as well as made accessible to a wider audience.
- To use the
letters as a starting point for a journey.
The
letters and drawings make it possible to follow the trail of Iver Henningsen
through Poland and Lithuania and in that way experience World War 1 and
one of its less known theaters of war.
- Through
the journey to experience Eastern Europe now and then.
But
the journey is not simply one of military and historical interest, it
is also a journey through foreign countries and a meeting with foreign
cultures. Through the letters the journey will be a return but also a
first meeting, not only because the travellers have never been there before,
but because nearly hundrede years have passed: the bloody and violent
history of the 20th century.
- To communicate
the impressions from the journey in the new and old Europe.
After
a chaotic century, a new one of peaceful co-excistence and co-operation
has dawned upon Europe, but a knowledge of our diversity as well as of
what binds us together - a knowledge of our history and culture - is vital
to this new Europe. The journey In grandfathers footsteps
will offer many opportunities to study and experience both history and
the life and culture of Eastern Europe today - afterwards to be communicted
through a book, a documentary and lectures.
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