Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum
Creative Writing Project
GERECHT? Geschichten über soziale Ungleichheiten
Are you allowed to vote? Can you afford any medicine? Can you be who you are? How do you use language? What do you leave behind?
These are a few of the questions that the curators of the exhibition GERECHT? Geschichten über soziale Ungleichheiten have raised in connection to thirty-four historical everyday objects exhibited at the Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum in Innsbruck from June 2025 until March 2026. The exhibits come from museums and collections in Tyrol, South Tyrol and Trentino.
Participants of the Creative Writing Project have been invited to create short fiction, poems, and reflective vignettes in a literary exploration of selected objects and their stories that opens up new perspectives on social justice, both personal and artistic.
by Univ-Prof. Christoph Singer, Chair of British and Anglophone Cultural Studies
The following works were written by students and participants of the Writing Club, a Creative Writing Project led by Violet Stathopoulou-Vais, Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, University of Innsbruck, in cooperation with Anna Amann, Kulturvermittlerin, Tiroler Landesmuseen, and were presented in the Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum on 7th November 2025 amidst the very exhibits that inspired them.
Disclaimer: Unless there is a clear reference to facts or historical figures, all texts and poems are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
Echoes of Freedom by Reka Pihes
The Syringe by Amelie Trippolt
A Syringe Made of Wood by Frida Haardt
They Marched into Town by Jonas André Oberparleiter
The Object is Oppression by Christopher R. Standley
The Process of Creation by Hanne Berendse
Untitled by Jonas André Oberparleiter
Privilege or Punishment by Reka Pihes
Gilded Hopes by Violet Vais
The Weight of Words by Clara Benedikter
The Day I Tried on The Norm by Tanja Niederkofler
The Lay of the Mine by Laurin Klocker
Unseen by Hanne Berendse
Unspoken by Violet Vais
Laying down the Sickle by Christopher R. Standley
Detritus by Violet Vais
The Black Baby Doll by Lara Wilhelm
Between Silence and Slivers – Black by Albona Berani
The Warrior Cape by Amelie Trippolt
My Name Is Konjo by Ezekiel Rockson
Project Participants
Clara Benedikter – MA Psychologiestudium
Albona Berani – MA Lehramtstudium A nglistik und Germanistik
Hanne Berendse – Doktoratstudium Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften
Frida Haardt – BA Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft und Germanistik
Laurin Klocker – MA Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Tanja Niederkofler – BA Lehramtstudium English und Geschichte
Jonas Oberpartleiter – BA Anglistik und Amerikanistik, BA Geschichte
Reka Pihes – BA Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Ezekiel Rockson – MA Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Christopher R. Standley – Senior Lecturer, Applied Language Studies
Amelie Trippolt – Englisch Lehrerin, Gymnasium
Lara Wilhelm – BA Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
and Sophia Rietzler – BA Lehramtstudum Musikerziehung und Religion
