Exhibition creates a photographic monument
For centuries, the workers of the seas have shaped the coastlines of our planet: fishermen, seaweed collectors, lighthouse keepers, crab fishermen, seacoalers and many others. With their work, these people have also shaped the culture of the marine regions. Their experiences have become the subject of countless great novels, epics, poems and paintings.
Global warming, marine pollution and industrial fishing have taken their toll on the workers of the seas. In many places, they can no longer live off their earnings. More and more of them are only doing the work of their ancestors as a sideline and for many men, a life by the sea means hard work in a dystopian port industry.
Over the past 30 years, Rolf Nobel, born in 1950, Professor of Photojournalism and Documentary Photography in Hanover, has accompanied many of these people in their sometimes spectacular and not
harmless work on several continents and is now creating a photographic monument to them with a publication and exhibitions.
Duration of the exhibition: March 8 - May 25, 2026
Tuesday - Sunday 11.00 - 18.00 and on all public holidays
Admission: 6,- Euro/ reduced 4,- Euro
Annual ticket for all exhibitions at the Kulturforum: 25,- Euro
Guided tours for school classes: (free of charge) on request
Tel. 0385 555527 // Mail: schleswig-holstein-haus@schwerin.de
ZUM MEER - Treasures from literature read and discussed by Margrit Wischnewski
Tuesdays6.30 pm (costs: admission to the exhibition)
Dates:
10.03. Victor Hugo - The workers of the sea... Charles Darwin invented it!
17.03. Jules Verne - 20,000 leagues under the seas... The affair with the giant squid
24.03. Homer - Johann Heinrich Voss - The odysseys... Odysseus between Scylla and Charybdis
31.03.Ernst Haeckel's letters to Anna Sethe... and the discovery of the world's greatest animal migration
07.04. Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island... Memories of my first book
14.04. Hans Christian Andersen - The Little Mermaid... Seabeds and human longings
21.04. Friedrich Schiller - Der Taucher... Wassermenschen und die Ungeheuer der tiefen See
28.04. Herman Melville - Moby Dick... ein See-Epos, das seinesgleichen sucht
05.05. Die Bibel - Das Alte Testament... Jona, Gedanken aus dem Innern eines Wals
12.05. Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea... two great prizes for a novella
19.05. Elisabeth Mann Borgese - ... a life for the seas and The Immortal Fish
