Invitation to the vernissage

Jacob Böhme is considered the first German philosopher and the first modern thinker on freedom. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was the most important German Enlightenment thinker and a pioneer of a universal ethics. Johann Gottlieb Fichte, born in Rammenau, was the key inspiration behind a philosophy of freedom and love. Rudolf Hermann Lotze is regarded as one of the world’s most influential philosophers of the 19th century. Rudolf Bahro’s philosophical critique of real socialism paved the intellectual groundwork for the fall of the Berlin Wall, and his ecological philosophy goes further than most of today’s sustainability research. They all came from Upper Lusatia. The exhibition, titled “Who Am I? Groundless? Soul? Freedom? Love?”, offers insight into their fundamental ideas and their impact on cultural and intellectual history.

The exhibition, which is accompanied by a book of the same title, was developed in collaboration between the Pommritz Philosophy Experience Center and the culture and management program at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences. It will open with a vernissage on September 11 at 3:00 p.m. and will then be on view at Rammenau Castle through March 31, 2017. For more information, visit the Rammenau Castle website.