Petra Bammes – born in Meißen in 1957 | 1976-81 studied at the Dresden Art Academy under Prof. Helmut Heinze | from 1981 worked as a freelance sculptor in Magdeburg | participated in symposia in Germany, Poland and Hungary | 1986 invited to a symposium in Aberdeen, Scotland and unfounded ban by the authorities of the GDR | 1989 after several years of applying to leave the country, relocation to Memmingen, Allgäu | 1991 own workshop in Memmingen | 1992 founding of the “Freie Kunstschule MM”