{"id":20581,"date":"2022-04-19T12:07:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T10:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/events\/forum-z-liewen-am-minett-revisited\/"},"modified":"2022-04-19T12:07:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T10:07:22","slug":"forum-z-liewen-am-minett-revisited","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/events\/forum-z-liewen-am-minett-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Forum Z: Liewen am Minett revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

This ForumZ revisits the famous photo book \u201cLiewen am Minett\u201d that documented the Minett region in the late 1980s and sparked a debate about the region\u2019s identity.<\/p>

The \u201cLiewen am Minett\u201d project came to life by an initiative of the Minister of Culture Robert Krieps in 1986. In the photo book\u2019s foreword he stated that the heart of Luxembourg\u2019s industry, \u201cthe cradle of its prosperity and the material support of national independence\u201d \u2013 the Minett \u2013 has been unfairly overlooked, and its \u201cnew type of man\u201d \u2013 the Minettsd\u00e4pp \u2013 largely unseen. \u201cIt is therefore a kind of injustice,\u201d Krieps continued, \u201cthat we want to redress by doing justice to a world which, over the past ten years, has experienced deep anguish and new transformations. We present a snapshot of a part of our country whose rich facets are unknown.\u201d The photo book, curated by Jean Back, exhibited photos of 16 amateur and professional photographers. \u201cLiewen am Minett\u201d was arguably the first social photography project in the region which was supposed to document the life in the region during the steel crisis, particularly the life and landscapes that would soon no longer be found. A reader\u2019s letter, published in Tageblatt, complained that the photographers had looked only for the ugly sides of the Minett and that the photos did not really represent the Minett and its inhabitants. This sparked a public debate about the identity of the region and its inhabitants. Some 35 years later, researcher Viktoria Boretska has revisited this project and talked to some of the protagonists but also with younger photographers that still document the region in transformation. The film is part of the \u201cRemixing Industrial Pasts in the Digital Age<\/a>\u201d project of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History. The research project is funded by Esch2022 European Capital of Culture<\/a>.<\/p>

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