Copyright

Hanna Trampert

Published On

2024-04-22

Page Range

pp. 79–90

Language

  • English

Print Length

12 pages

3. Passing Bye

  • Hanna Trampert (author)
Chapter of: (An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War(pp. 79–90)
This chapter retells an autobiographical journey of Hanna Trampert, an artist who was born in Poland during the Cold War but frequently visited her family members in the Eastern borderlands of Germany. Growing up in a divided world, the themes of borders, freedom, and fear have accompanied Hanna throughout her life and have also been reflected in her artwork. This chapter is a reflection on Hanna’s work since 2019. Inspired by her participation in the Reconnect/Recollect project, it focuses on the theme of connection(s). The experience of working with childhood memories has created an opportunity to see―and make visible―the existing connections and entanglements that have always existed despite walls and borders.

Contributors

Hanna Trampert

(author)

Hanna Trampert is an artist and art therapy consultant. Born in 1963 on the Baltic Sea in Poland, she has lived in Germany since 1985. Hanna is a member of the Federal Association of Visual Artists, Bundesverband Bildender Künstler (BBK), having published pictures in the book German-Polish Bridgebuilding at Municipal Level ([n.p.]: Kliomedia, 2012). For the last twenty years, she has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the ‘International Artists Encounter’. In her paintings, she focuses on human beings and their experiences. She is fascinated by memories and by the experiences that show themselves in people’s facial expressions, and she find space on canvas or paper to register those. In her work, influential family stories become works of art.