Susanne Roehrig is a student of Karl Guenther Bose from the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, Germany. Following her diploma work in
which she developed the idea of calendar posters, she made 7 posters,
each bearing a date from September or October and recalling an interesting event in Leipzig's history, for example the wedding of Clara and
Robert Schumann in 1840, the university enrolment of the playwright Lessing in 1746, and so on. Just like leafs from a tear-off calendar they entertain
and enlighten passers-by with little known facts about the city.
What makes Susanne's work unique is that she did not just design, print and post the posters, but also documented their life on the walls of Leipzig, as seen in the pictures below. Many more can be found on her website kalenderplakate.de. | Clara and Robert Schumann just married | The Leipzig race course opens | The botanist C.F. Schwaegerichen is born |
Playwright G.E. Lessing enters university | Music publisher C.G. Breitkopf is born | Reclam Editions are founded | The German National Library is founded |
Susanne Roehrig's calendar posters in the streets of Leipzig, Germany:
Susanne Roehrig's diploma posters, unpublished:
Marie Curie discovers Polonium | My first Amiga computer | German spelling reform | The last Quagga dies |
Robert de Niro is born | Bravo, the german teen magazine | Science fiction movies enter the cinema | Boxing gloves become compulsory |