We invite all interested parties to participate in the public discussion, which will take place on 7 October at 18.00 in Saaremaa, in the large hall of the Salme community centre. We will discuss the future of the Tehumardi Memorial and the surrounding area, in order to jointly consider the best possible solutions. The event … Public discussion on the Tehumardi Memorial and surrounding area
On 23 July, a pop-up exhibition “New frames for the monument: the Tehumardi Memorial” was opened in the dock area of Kuivastu harbour. The exhibition, a collaboration between artists, historians and heritage conservationists, invites the public to reflect on the meaning of the Tehumardi monument and the possibilities for reinterpreting it. To this end, five … An exhibition dedicated to the Tehumardi Memorial was opened in Kuivastu Harbour
During the Soviet era, the Battle of Tehumardi and the monument were the subject of official, ideologically “correct” stories constructed by the political leaders of the party and the army. Estonian Red Army soldiers were portrayed as convinced Bolsheviks. However, to approach the monument and the experience of the rifle corps solely in terms of … The value of the Tehumardi as a historic site today
The myth of the Tehumardi was cast in concrete in 1967 – the fiftieth anniversary of the October Revolution – when the current memorial was built near the battle site to replace the modest monument. Later, a field of memorial stones was added. The monument was unveiled on the 25th anniversary of the founding of … Tehumardi as a place of memory of Soviet Estonia
The night battle of Tehumardi between units of the Red Army’s Estonian Rifle Corps and a retreating German battalion in the late evening of 8 October 1944 was a casual and strategically insignificant encounter – it was bloody, but without major military results. The battle took place in the final phase of the war here, … Battle of Tehumardi
At the end of June, the removal of the grave markers of the Red Army soldiers buried in Tehumardi in Saaremaa began. A sword-shaped obelisk remains, but some of the text on it will be covered up. Broadcast on ERR: https://www.err.ee/1609385786/galerii-tehumardil-algas-punaarmee-sodurite-hauatahiste-eemaldamine On Monday, the removal of the grave markers of the Red Army soldiers buried … Removal of grave markers of Red Army soldiers in Tehumardi began
Discussion of the research project “How to Reframe Monuments” at the Estonian Academy of Arts On 7 May at 18.00, the Department of Heritage Conservation and Conservation and the Department of Installation and Sculpture of the EAA invite you to a discussion on the research project “How to Reframe Monuments” on the Tehumardi Monument in … How to Reframe Monuments – Tehumardi debate
How can this monument be less Soviet, but instead more contemporary, and become so without the reluctant feeling that we are censoring/decimating something? The form of the gravestones is inserted between the existing rows in such a way that there is no (walking) space left. The new, ‘white sheet’ keyed wreaths will be without inscriptions … Taavi Piibemann. A further development of the Tehumardi Monument