Prof. Dr. Brigite Fahrenhorst talks about her Sahara crossings and provides wonderful insights into the landscape.
Slide show by Prof. Dr. Brigitte Fahrenhorst: Through the Sahara by car
Prof. Dr. Brigitte Fahrenhorst from Burg Stargard has lived, researched as a scientist and worked as a consultant for the EU, governments and non-governmental organizations in around 40 countries around the world. For several years now, she has been organizing the Burg Stargard Initiative, which brings people together and promotes openness to the world (www.burg-stargard-initiative.org). This is the second time she has reported on her Sahara crossings here in the region. She first traveled to West Africa in 1979 and was surprisingly invited to take part in a journey through the southern edge of the Sahara between Mali and Niger. This journey turned out to be exciting, instructive and very challenging due to sandstorms, floods, car breakdowns, loss of orientation and strange encounters. In the years that followed, she decided to cross the Sahara from north to south, from Berlin through Tunisia, Algeria along the Libyan border to Niger and along the Moroccan border to Mali. Along the way, she experienced endless vistas, intensities of color, total silence, crazy encounters and unique scenic beauty. The most important lesson from these trips was an open world view: there are always many points of view, many interpretations, errors and confusions, deceptions and insights and always a way out. You simply have to embrace and enjoy everything. Fear is a bad advisor.
When: Saturday, 11.4.2026 at 7 pm
Where: Burg Stargard Initiative, Kunsthaus Sabeler Weg 3 17094 Burg Stargard
Please register (due to seat organization)
Admission free
