Margit Niederhuber, Albie Sachs

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Margit Niederhuber ist Kuratorin, Dramaturgin und arbeitet viel in Afrika. Künstlerische Beraterin und Organisatorin verschiedener Projekte, Konzerte, Festivals, Tourneen, Theater, Ausstellungen, Schallplatten und Bücher.

Albie Sachs ist Anwalt und Menschenrechtsaktivist. Elf Jahre Exil in England, 1977 Exil in Moçam­bique. Bis 2009 war er Richter am Verfassungsgerichtshof Südafrikas. Er ist ein bekannter Autor und Professor an vielen Universitäten. Auf deutsch erschien von ihm »Sanfte Rache: der Überlebensbericht des südafrikanischen Bürgerrechtlers«.

Margit Niederhuber
was born in Linz, Austria. As a frequent visitor to the bookshop in which her mother worked, she knew already as a child that she wanted to travel widely and meet people from all around the world. She studied Roman and German Philology at the University of Vienna as well as in Paris, Lisbon and Algiers.
In Austria, her work has included: the organization and curation of ARTISTS FOR PEACE, the cultural events at the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna (1993) as well as a number of feminist art events e.g. HER POSITION IN TRANSITION (2006), and, as an artistic director, the documentary film THE CONCEALED CITY (2009) about dealing with the Nazi past in Linz.
In southern Africa, she directed a documentary film, IS THE DEVIL REALLY A CHILD?(1990) about child soldiers in Mozambique. She has advised cultural projects including a women’s radio program broadcast in all Mozambican provinces as well as acting as artistic director for theater productions such as a Mozambican-Austrian coproduction of SCHILLERS RÄUBER (2005). Her search for interesting encounters and issues that matter has given rise to a number of publications.
www.margit-niederhuber.com

Albie Sachs
On turning six, during World War II, Albie Sachs received a card from his father expressing the wish that he would grow up to be a soldier in the fight for liberation. His career in human rights activism started at the age of seventeen, when as a second year law student at the University of Cape Town, he took part in the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign. Three years later he attended the Congress of the People at Kliptown where the Freedom Charter was adopted. He started practice as an advocate at the Cape Bar aged 21. The bulk of his work involved defending people charged under racist statutes and repressive security laws. Many faced the death sentence. He himself was raided by the security police, subjected to banning orders restricting his movement and eventually placed in solitary confinement without trial for two prolonged spells of detention.
In 1966 he went into exile. After spending eleven years studying and teaching law in England he worked for a further eleven years in Mozambique as law professor and legal researcher. In 1988 he was blown up by a bomb placed in his car in Maputo by South African security agents, losing an arm and the sight of an eye.
During the 1980s working closely with Oliver Tambo, leader of the ANC in exile, he helped draft the organisation‘s Code of Conduct, as well as its statutes. After recovering from the bomb he devoted himself full-time to preparations for a new democratic Constitution for South Africa. In 1990 he returned home and as a member of the Constitutional Committee and the National Executive of the ANC took an active part in the negotiations which led to South Africa becoming a constitutional democracy. After the first democratic election in 1994 he was appointed by President Nelson Mandela to serve on the newly established Constitutional Court.
In addition to his work on the Court, he has travelled to many countries sharing South African experience in healing divided societies. He has also been engaged in the sphere of art and architecture, and played an active role in the development of the Constitutional Court building and its art collection on the site of the Old Fort Prison in Johannesburg. In 2009, his appointment to the court expired. Albie Sachs continues to write and to speak around the world, sharing the South African experience of healing a divided society.
http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/judge-albert-louis-albie-sachs



Margit Niederhuber und Albie Sachs kennen einander aus Maputo, Moçambique. Das Foto zeigt sie beim Maputo Jazz Festival für Frieden im Jahre 1986, das von den beiden initiiert und kuratiert wurde, und 2012 bei einer von der SADOCC (Southern Africa Documentation and Cooperation Centre) organisierten Veranstaltung anlässlich „100 Jahre ANC (African National Congress)“ in Wien.

Margit Niederhuber and Albie Sachs know each other from Mozambique. The photo depicts a meeting during the Maputo Jazz-Festival for Peace in 1986 which was initiated and curated by them and 2012 at the celebration for 100 years ANC organized by SADOCC (Southern Africa Documentation and Cooperation Centre) in Vienna.

 

Von Margit Niederhuber sind im Mandelbaum Verlag auch lieferbar:

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Networking à Dakar

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