The Bavarian School Museum Ichenhausen invites you to a family-friendly exhibition about our handwriting.
An inspiring visit.
And now we all remember our first love letter again.
Of the bashful concern that only one's own mocking siblings won't discover the envelope.
Of opening it with trembling hands, of the letters in blue ink.
Each of them said that someone had tried very hard to write particularly beautifully.
So, and now let's imagine what such a tender declaration of love looks like today.
Also how it sounds.
In the past: fountain pen on paper, lick the flap of the envelope, open the stamp, snap, tear open.
Today it's click click, beep beep.
Cupid 2.0 shoots his arrows digitally.
There are now providers who print entire Whatsapp histories and bind them in a booklet.
And what type of font do clients choose most often?
the one who acts
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Write again!
It is not only on Easter that people are happy about letters they have written themselves.
© Sina Schuldt
Let's not kid ourselves: writing is more than just sending messages.
Through our writing we reveal mood, effort, character.
A look at the diary: on some evenings I visibly used my last ounce of strength, even the letters almost fell over with tiredness.
On other days, an exuberance of energy.
The big F bumps into the small ones, pushes, pushes the characters further.
So full of impatience to tell what happened that day so that later I can remember it.
From heart to hand.
So it's about the really big feelings in the Bavarian School Museum Ichenhausen.
The family-friendly exhibition "The Writing - A Miracle" is currently running in the house in the Günzburg district.
The title is not too high.
You have to realize that.
Humans first mapped words to signs.
Laborious.
And so it developed – how?
You can't believe it!
- an alphabet.
Letters that can be used to form any word.
each.
What an insane feat of civilization.
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Through the works of the Viennese calligrapher Claudia Dzengel, you can learn how calligraphy succeeds in the Bavarian School Museum in Ichenhausen.
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The show shows a historical and cultural overview from the first characters to contemporary calligraphy.
Sounds dry, but thanks to the curation by museum director Johanna Haug, it's not at all.
She commissioned the Viennese calligrapher Claudia Dzengel to depict the change in typefaces.
That all looks very nice.
What kind of craftsmanship calligraphy actually is, you only really realize when you pick up a pen, quill or brush pen yourself at one of the hands-on stations.
All around you are Dzengel's works: letters in an endless loop, Ms and Os and As that stack up, roll into each other, dance across the paper.
For every picture she would immediately be given a calligraphy grade of 1+.
Calligraphic note – there's no such thing today either.
One thinks,
while trying to form an O with red marker that doesn't look like a shriveled tangerine.
And you can feel yourself becoming calmer and calmer.
Concentrated calligraphy challenges and promotes brain and hands.
Has a meditative effect.
“We see that in the school classes that come to us: there is a calmness all of a sudden when the children form the letters themselves.
Totally lost,” says Haug.
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Practice calligraphy at one of the many hands-on stations in the Bavarian School Museum in Ichenhausen.
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That's why it's getting political now.
Anyone who had the eggnog-soaked idea (happy Easter) that handwriting could be done away with because we are so modern and progressive should be written off themselves.
Writing trains motor skills;
we remember better what we write with our hands.
And: Our soul lies in our writing.
You can always recognize lines from Mama.
Or dad's scrawls.
The little hearts that the sister, even when she is over 30, still includes in her letters instead of the dots on the i.
Whoever demands that children should only learn to write on the computer demands: no more lipstick greetings on the bathroom mirror;
no more crazy plans written down on red wine stained bar napkins;
never write with fingers on spine again;
no more secretly passing on letters in math class;
no more good mood post-its on the sad colleague's desk;
never again self-written message in a bottle.
Click click, beep beep.
In the shipwreck no one hands you a laptop.
You have to figure out SOS in capital letters yourself.
The exhibition reminds us not to let handwriting suffer distress at sea.
Because then what would be?
Indescribable.
Until June 25, 2023 in the Bavarian School Museum Ichenhausen.
Tue.-Sun.
10am-5pm;
Telephone: 08223/ 618.