Way of Human Rights

Way of Human Rights

The Way of Human Rights ( _de. Straße der Menschenrechte) is a monumental outdoor sculpture in Nuremberg, Germany. It was opened on October 24, 1993. It is sited on the street between the new and old buildings of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, connecting Kornmarkt street and the medieval city wall.

In 1988, a twelve-person jury from the Germanisches Nationalmuseum held a design competition to decide on the artistic design of the Kartäusergasse street in Nuremberg. The winner was a proposal by Israeli artist Dani Karavan consisting of a gate, 27 round pillars made of white concrete, two pillars buried in the ground showing only a round plate, and one columnar oak, for a total of 30 pillars. Engraved in each pillar is one article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in German and another language. [The inscriptions as summarized by Karavan on the columns http://www.humanrightsanimationproject.org/english/html/human_rights.html accessed 1 May 2007.] The pillars are 8 meters in height, 80 centimeters in diameter, and spaced regularly at 5 meters along an axis. [Information about the project from http://www.danikaravan.com/ accessed 1 May 2007.] The north gate mirrors the medieval city gate located at the south end of the street.

The site of project has a layered history, including the remnants of a monastery, the medieval city wall, buildings designed by Sep Ruf in the 1950s and 1960s, and a glass-enclosed entrance designed by the firm ME DI UM in 1993. [http://www.gnm.de/architektur.html accessed 4 May 2007.]

This sculpture is part of Nuremberg's efforts to shake off its Nazi-era reputation as the "City of the Party Rallies" and reinvent itself as a "City of Peace and Human Rights". [http://www.nuernberg.de/internet/portal_e/buerger/human_rights.htmlaccessed 4 May 2007.] In 2001, Nuremberg was honored for this attempt at transformation with the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education [Award ceremony address by Koïchiro Matsuura http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001224/122419E.pdf 21 April 2001.] , the "Way of Human Rights" being specifically cited. The monument is intended as both a repudiation of past crimes and a permanent reminder that human rights are still regularly violated. Nuremberg's prize for human rights, the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award, is awarded on the site every two years.

References

ee also

*Ursula Peters: "Dani Karavan: Weg der Menschenrechte", in: Ursula Peters: "Moderne Zeiten. Die Sammlung zum 20. Jahrhundert," in Zusammenarbeit mit Andrea Legde, Nürnberg 2000 ("Kulturgeschichtliche Spaziergänge im Germanischen Nationalmuseum", Bd.3), S.274-281.

External links

* [http://www.menschenrechte.nuernberg.de/index.php?navi=3&rid=a85f9a2b307e617a0ff40ad7b15550b0 Menschenrechtsbüro Nürnberg]


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