From 8 to 12 December 2025, the Ravensdruck art project took place for the 12th time at the Ravensbrück Memorial Museum. For five days, students from the Ernst-Litfaß-Schule Berlin (OSZ Mediengestaltung und Medientechnologie) explored the life story of communist Auschwitz and Ravensbrück survivor Vilma Steindling and expressed their findings artistically.
Under the guidance of their teacher Ingo Grollmus, the students set up a temporary printing workshop at the Memorial Museum. In the workshop, they took on all the steps, from conception and design to the production of the printing forms, printing and presentation of the works. The resulting graphics are on display in the main foyer of the Ravensbrück Memorial until the end of May 2026. The exhibition invites visitors to explore the life story of Vilma Steindling and discover the students' artistic works.
Vilma Steindling (1919–1989) was a Jewish communist from Vienna. She was active in the resistance, was arrested in 1942 and deported to Auschwitz. In January 1945, she was forced to take part in one of the so-called death marches and ended up in the Ravensbrück Women's Concentration Camp, where she was liberated in April 1945. After the war, she returned to Vienna.
Ruth Steindling, daughter of Vilma Steindling, accompanied the Ravensdruck project and exchanged ideas with the students.
Together with Claudia Erdheim, Ruth Steindling wrote down her mother's life story. The book ‘Vilma Steindling. Eine jüdische Kommunistin im Widerstand’ (Vilma Steindling: A Jewish Communist in the Resistance) was first published in 2017 by Amalthea Verlag.
The Ravensdruck project is made possible with the support of the Dr. Hildegard-Hansche-Stiftung and the Internationaler Freundeskreises Ravensbrück e. V.
