In the organizer's words:

While most women in the first women's movement during the First World War were committed to national thinking, pacifist-minded women from many European countries organized an international women's peace congress in The Hague in 1915. Although many were denied permission to leave the country, over a thousand women from all over Europe and the USA came together. They included women such as Aletta Jacobs, Anita Augspurg and Rosa Manus.

Stella Shcherbatova, psychological counselor at the EL-DE-Hause for victims of anti-Semitic attacks, and Almuth Voss, former vocational school pastor, take on their roles during the staged reading. They will be accompanied on the electric piano by Dina Goncharova. They will also look at what women think and do today from an international perspective.

The reading is part of the accompanying program to the exhibition "Pioneers of Change - the First Women's Movement in Cologne", of the Historical Archive with Rhenish Image Archive, which you can still see until 22 March 2026.

Price information:

Places are limited and participation is free of charge. Registration by e-mail to anmeldungarchiv@stadt-koeln.de or by telephone on 0221/221-24455 is required.