The award of the Cross of Merit of the Federal Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany to the two museum founder of the President recognizes her hard work in the service of
extraordinary project, because they succeeded in creating and building a unique institution: the museum with its exhibition program, its collections and its extensive library of the documentation, research and presentation of gay culture and everyday life dedicated. It thus makes an active contribution period of its currency against discrimination and against the exclusion of sexual minorities.
On Tuesday, 15 March 2011 to extend the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, the Federal Cross of Merit to Dr. Andreas Stern Weiler and Wolfgang Theis, which granted them for their persistent and self-sacrificing dedication and achievement as initiators, the founder and driving force behind the Gay Museum in Berlin by the Federal President was.
From its foundation to today in the Gay Museum, 127 exhibitions realized to numerous issues - including the major milestones exhibitions Goodbye to Berlin? 100 Years of Gay Movement (1997) in the Academy of Arts in Berlin and prosecute homosexual men in Berlin in 1933-45 to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial (2000). The accompanying publications considered standard works on the subject. Also succeeded through the years of building a collection of documents and works of art from the period 1500 to 1970, without which the permanent exhibition in the Museum shown self-confidence and perseverance. 200 years of history would be unthinkable and the scientific reputation of the museum is based.
Source: GAYS.DE
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