{"id":46061,"date":"2026-08-04T17:11:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/news\/internationales-stipendium-zwangsarbeit-en-work-force-d-erstmals-vergeben\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T14:39:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:39:52","slug":"internationales-stipendium-zwangsarbeit-en-work-force-d-erstmals-vergeben","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/news\/internationales-stipendium-zwangsarbeit-en-work-force-d-erstmals-vergeben\/","title":{"rendered":"International Fellowship \u00bbZwangsarbeit\/en \u2013 Work Force\/d\u00ab Awarded for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"template":"","news_type":[664,665],"class_list":["post-46061","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_type-news-en","news_type-press-releases"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"has-bg-custom","bgcolor_custom":"rgb(255,255,255)","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":null,"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"For the first time, Akademie Schloss Solitude is collaborating with the Coordination Office for the Culture of Remembrance at the Cultural Affairs Office of the City of Stuttgart as part of the international fellowship \u00bbZwangsarbeit\/en \u2013 Work Force\/d.\u00ab<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe fellowship aims to explore the history of Nazi forced labor in Stuttgart from contemporary artistic perspectives and bring it to greater public attention. It takes as its starting point specific sites of former Nazi forced labor within the present-day city, which will be made newly legible through artistic interventions.<\/span>\r\n\r\nBetween 1939 and 1945, these sites were places of violence, disenfranchisement, and exploitation. Today, at most of these locations, nothing remains to indicate this part of their history. This is precisely where the fellowship project begins: The artistic works will investigate the traces that forced labor has left to this day in the urban landscape, in biographies and family histories, and in social structures. At the same time, they will open a dialogue about contemporary forms of exploitation, dependency, and precarious working conditions by critically reflecting on continuities, ruptures, and transformations.\r\n\r\nThe international open call received more than 160 applications from numerous countries. A five-member expert jury \u2013 comprising Mirjam Zadoff, director of the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism; \u00dclk\u00fc S\u00fcng\u00fcn, artist; Andreas Langen, photographer and member of the Forced Labor in Stuttgart Working Group; and representatives of the two collaborating institutions \u2013 selected two international artistic positions.\r\n\r\nArtist Nadya Sayapina<\/span> recently began the first of her several-month residencies in Stuttgart. As the fellowship progresses, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Daisy Krebs<\/span> will also come to Stuttgart for two working periods. During their stays, the artists will conduct research in archives, engage in conversations with experts and local initiatives, and develop site-specific artistic projects to be realized together with Stuttgart\u2019s urban community. The artistic projects will be accompanied by a public program of educational and outreach activities.\r\n\r\nAlongside the Coordination Office for the Culture of Remembrance at the Cultural Affairs Office and Akademie Schloss Solitude, key partners include the Forced Labor in Stuttgart Working Group, the Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg State Agency for Civic Education, and the House of History Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg.\r\n

Historical Context<\/span><\/h3>\r\nBetween 1939 and 1945, forced labor was a central component of the Nazi war economy. Millions of people from European countries occupied by Germany were forced to work in the German Reich. In Stuttgart alone, more than 40,000 men, women, and young people were subjected to forced labor.\r\n\r\nAlthough forced labor was a fundamental pillar of the Nazi war economy, its history remained a largely suppressed chapter of European remembrance for many years after 1945. It was not until the late 1980s \u2013 and increasingly in the context of the debates over compensation during the 1990s \u2013 that the experiences and fates of forced laborers began to receive greater public attention.\r\n\r\nSince 2022, the \u00bbForced Labor in Stuttgart\u00ab Working Group has been documenting former camp and work sites throughout the city.\r\n\r\nAn important recent contribution to research is historian Kevin Schmidt\u2019s dissertation, Kriegswirtschaft und Zwangsarbeit in Stuttgart 1939\u20131945<\/em> (War Economy and Forced Labor in Stuttgart, 1939\u20131945<\/em>), published by the Stuttgart City Archives. It provides new insights into the scale, organization, and significance of forced labor in Stuttgart and serves as an important foundation for further work on the city\u2019s culture of remembrance.\r\n\r\nUntil the end of September, photographs of sites associated with forced labor during the Second World War can be seen in the display windows of the former Galeria Kaufhof building on Eberhardstra\u00dfe. The photographs are by Andreas Langen and Kai Loges (arge lola). The exhibition is a collaboration between the Coordination Office for the Culture of Remembrance and the \u00bbForced Labor in Stuttgart\u00ab Working Group.\r\n\r\n "},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":null,"bgcolor":"has-bg-lila","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":12,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

Biographies of the selected artists<\/span><\/h3>\r\nNadya Sayapina<\/span>\r\n\r\nNadya Sayapina (born in Minsk, Belarus) studied arts and crafts and art history in Minsk and has lived in exile in Warsaw since 2020. In recent years, her work has taken her to Gda\u0144sk, Kyiv, Cologne, and Stuttgart, among other cities.\r\n\r\nSayapina is an independent interdisciplinary artist working across installation, multimedia, performance, objects, and drawing. Her socially engaged artistic practice explores migration, collective memory, identity, and trauma. She also sees herself as a facilitator, working with communities and individuals through interviews, archival research, and collaborative creative processes.\r\n\r\nJean-Fran\u00e7ois Daisy Krebs<\/span>\r\n\r\nJean-Fran\u00e7ois Daisy Krebs (born in Metz, France) studied fine art at Goldsmiths, University of London, as well as landscape architecture in Edinburgh and Versailles. He also completed training in horticulture in Paris. His work has been exhibited internationally, including in Paris, London, Lisbon, and Nicosia. In 2023, he received the Fluxus Art Projects Award.\r\n\r\nKrebs works across installation, performance, sculpture, video, and textiles. His artistic practice centers on the relationships between people, the environment, and space, with a particular interest in light, plants, and living landscapes.\r\n\r\n "},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","_acfe_flexible_layout_title":null,"bgcolor":"has-bg-grey","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":12,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

Jurors<\/h3>\r\nDr. Anne Fleckstein, director of Akademie Schloss Solitude\r\n<\/span>Andreas Langen,\u00a0 Arbeitskreis Zwangsarbeit (Workgroup Forced Labor) Stuttgart\r\n\u00dclk\u00fc S\u00fcng\u00fcn, visual artist, curator and researching activist\r\n<\/span>Franziska Weber, h<\/span>ead of the Coordination Office for the Culture of Remembrance, City of Stuttgart\r\n<\/span>Prof. Dr. Mirjam Zadoff, director of the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism<\/span>"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=46061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}