Giulio Camagni: 1525 - The Uprising

The museums in the Antonierhaus are dedicating their 2025 exhibition to the events of 1525, when unrest broke out in large parts of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation as peasants fought for their rights. Not far from the Antonierhaus, 500 years ago, the Twelve Articles were written, which are regarded as one of the first records of human rights and freedoms in Europe. The house in which the lay preacher Sebastian Lotzer lived at the time, who played a key role in the formulation of the articles as the field scribe of one of the three peasant clans that gathered in Memmingen, is virtually within sight. In the neighbourhood is the building where the influential Reformation preacher Christoph Schappeler lived, whose place of work was St. Martin's Church - whose canons, responsible for the liturgy, were in turn the Antonites, whose former living quarters are now the museum rooms.

Giulio Camagni has turned these stories into an epic graphic novel. In it, he brings together different narrative strands, describing what happened in Memmingen and Leubas, in Stuttgart, Innsbruck and Nuremberg. He tells touching personal stories that bring the story closer to us as readers, explains how this uprising came about and how the princes, churchmen, municipal societies and their henchmen reacted and crushed it. The graphic novel 1525 - The Uprising is a gripping tale of historical events. The narrative style is more like a film, the historical facts are conveyed in an entertaining way and through images.

Last edited on 30.01.2025