Life Could Be So Beautiful - The Diary of Ruth Maier

Life Could Be So Beautiful – Ruth Maier's Diary

During preparations for the Czech edition of Ruth Maier's Diary and the exhibitions Lives cut short & The Maier Family Arks, museum educators Táňa Klementová and Markéta Brhlíková created an educational workshop entitled Life Could Be So Beautiful. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the workshop was repeated sixty times online and later thirty times in person, accompanying the traveling exhibitions after schools and museums reopened.

We now offer the workshop in the form of sharing methodology with teachers or as a ready-made educational program, where someone from our team visits a school/museum and leads the program as a lecturer.

The workshop is based on excerpts from Ruth Maier's diary and combines elements of blackout poetry with the participants' own stories. It works in conjunction with traveling exhibitions and the book diary, but also completely independently.

The program lasts 90 minutes. It can be reduced to a shorter 45-minute version.

If you are interested in sharing the methodology or ordering an educational program for your school, please contact us at tana.klementova@maierfamily.eu.

In line with the Framework Educational Program, the program is designed for:

Secondary school

Educational areas: Language and linguistic communication, Man and society (History, Citizenship education)
Supplementary educational fields: Drama education, Ethics education
Cross-curricular topics: Personal and social education, Education for democratic citizenship, Education for thinking in European and global contexts, Multicultural education
Secondary school students

Educational areas: Language and linguistic communication (Czech language and literature), People and society (Civics and social sciences, History)
Cross-curricular topics: Personal and social education, Education for thinking in European and global contexts, Multicultural education, Media education

Remote workshop Life Could Be So Beautiful broadcast from Villa Löw Beer in Brno, 2021.

Markéta Brhlíková leads a workshop for the public at Villa Löw Beer under mask-wearing measures, 2021.

Táňa Klementová leads a workshop for Czech students at the European School in Brussels, 2023.