Die Mütter des Grundgesetzes

Theater evening to mark the anniversary of the "75th anniversary of the Basic Law"

75 years ago, the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany came into force. Among the 65 members of the Parliamentary Council, there were only 4 women, who are often referred to today as the "Mothers of the Basic Law": Frieda Nadig, Dr. Elisabeth Selbert, Dr. Helene Weber and Helene Wessel. Article 3, Paragraph 2 of the Basic Law states: "Women and men have equal rights." The wording of this article on equality was preceded by heated discussions. Without the commitment of Elisabeth Selbert and thousands of women who campaigned publicly for full equality, the far-reaching sentence would not have been included in the German Basic Law.
The entertaining masterpiece "Mothers of the Basic Law" was written in 2014 by museum employee and author Dr. Nicole Nieraad-Schalke and has since been performed nationwide. On November 22nd, members of the theater group of the multi-generational house, led by Cornelia Peters, will take on the roles of the four politicians Nadig, Selbert, Weber and Wessel, who often had completely different opinions - including with regard to the equality of women. The audience can overhear how, after the final vote on the Basic Law, they lively discuss the exhausting last few months and the situation of German women shortly after the end of World War II. The evening program will be accompanied by pieces of music by Claire Waldoff, Marlene Dietrich and Hildegard Knef, which musically take us back to the middle of the 20th century.

Cooperation event of the Museum bei der Kaiserpfalz and Mehrgenerationenhaus Ingelheim

Director: Cornelia Peters, 2nd Chairwoman of the Ingelheim Historical Association e. V.
Venue: Museum bei der Kaiserpfalz
Registration by phone at the museum by October 20th, 2024 / limited number of people
Free admission