Love story? Detective novel? Archive research? Photographic collection? Fiction? Non-fiction? A new kind of book? A tribute to international textiles and fascinating wallpaper stories? ...Or all of the above? It all began in Chemnitz...
The author Julia Davis-Nosko brought TruthMarks to life. Now some of the many unique images and archive materials that her work has unearthed are on display. It shows how one family's silence took them across Europe: from Leipzig to Odessa, from Manchester to Łódź and then to Chemnitz.
Julia Davis-Nosko is an English writer and artist. She has been working for some time on an autofictional story about her family background. The process of researching and bringing the material together underlies the development of the TruthMarks programme, which is part of the European Capital of Culture 2025.
The meeting of her grandparents, Charlotte Langhammer and Arthur Noskowitz, inspired a new work called TruthMarks. They lived next door to each other in Ulmenstraße in Chemnitz in the early 1920s. Charlotte's grandfather was the famous wallpaper entrepreneur Max Langhammer. Arthur's father founded the Globus company, which later became the well-known British lingerie company Charnos. Arthur, a photographer, was Jewish. Charlotte, who often modelled for the new Charnos stockings, was not. Her world stretched from Chemnitz to Łódź and then from Nottingham to Odessa and beyond.
The publication of the book is planned for 2026.
Registration required: please book directly by emailing the industry museum: muspaed@industriemuseum-chemnitz.de
The event will be held exclusively in English.
