WIR SIND HIER
2025
Textile Work
WIR SIND HIER, after Anna Seghers
Luise Schröder
Screen Print on Satin Textile, 260 cm × 100 cm, dimensions variable
Concept: Luise Schröder
Design: Anna Breit
Wir sind hier, was jetzt geschieht, geschieht uns. / We are here, what happens now,
happens to us.
WIR SIND HIER is a site-specific textile work, that marks the entry and exit points of the exhibition Die Antwort lautet: NEIN (2025) by Luise Schröder at alpha nova & galerie futura. The inscription: Wir sind hier, was jetzt geschieht, geschieht uns. / We are here, what happens now happens to us draws upon a sentence from Anna Seghers’ novel: Das siebte Kreuz (1942). The book describes the process of fascistization among the German rural population and illuminates the scope and opportunities available to individuals to offer resistance. Within the context of Schröder’s exhibition, Anna Seghers plays a central role—as a writer, a role model, and a trailblazer for authors of the 1950s and 1960s from the GDR. The adaptation of this quote serves as a call to action for the audience: it serves as a reminder that we are always part of history, and that active social engagement in the present is—especially right now—urgently required.