Festive event on 14th of October 2025 to mark the start of the project: St Mary at Helfta. A Monastery in the Networks of its Time (13th to 16th century)

Festive event on 14th of October 2025 to mark the start of the project: St. Mary's at Helfta. A monastery in the networks of its time (13th to 16th century)

At the start of the new project St Mary at Helfta. A Monastery in the Networks of its Time (13th to 16th century), a festive event will be held in the Kaiser-Otto-Saal of the Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg.

Greetings will be given by Prof. Dr. Armin Willingmann, Minister for Science, Energy, Climate Protection and the Environment of Saxony-Anhalt; Dr. Andreas Handschuh, Head of the Saxon State Chancellery and State Secretary for Federal and European Affairs and the President of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Knölker. Museum Director Dr. Gabriele Köster will welcome the guests and Prof. Dr. Mirko Breitenstein will introduce the project before Prof. Dr. Simone Schultz-Balluff 's subsequent keynote speech.

PROGRAMME

Musical accompaniment

Welcoming address
Dr. Gabriele Köster
Director of the Magdeburg Museums

Opening
Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Knölker
President of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig

Greetings
Prof. Dr. Armin Willingmann
Minister for Science, Energy, Climate Protection and the Environment of Saxony-Anhalt

Dr. Andreas Handschuh
Head of the Saxon State Chancellery and State Secretary for Federal and European Affairs

Project presentation
Prof. Dr. Mirko Breitenstein
Project manager

Keynote speech
Prof. Dr. Simone Schultz-Balluff
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Hunting, fishing, brewing beer. A somewhat different look behind women's monastery walls

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