Truth Marks

Lecture by Julia Davis

Event in English

Love story? Detective novel? Archive research? Photographic collection? Fiction? Non Fiction? New type of book? Celebration of international textiles and fabulous wallpaper histories? …Or all of these? It all began in Chemnitz …
Meet the writer who created TruthMarks, Julia Davis-Nosko, and see some of the many unique images and archive material her work has uncovered. Discover how the family silence took her around Europe; from Leipzig to Odessa, from Manchester to Łódź and to Chemnitz.
Julia Davis Nosko is an English writer and artist. For some time now she has been writing an auto fictional story about her family background. The process of researching and bringing the material together is behind the development of the TruthMarks programme as part of the European Capital of Culture 2025
The meeting of her grandparents, Charlotte Langhammer and Arthur Noskowitz was the inspiration for a new work called TruthMarks.  They lived next door to each other on Ulmenstraße in Chemnitz in the early 1920s.  Charlotte’s Grandpa was the celebrated wallpaper entrepreneur, Max Langhammer. Arthur’s father set up Globus which was to become the famous Charnos lingerie company in the UK.  Arthur, a photographer was Jewish. Charlotte, who often modelled the new Charnos stockings, was not. Their world stretched from Chemnitz to  Łódź and then from Nottingham to Odessa and beyond.

The book publication is planned for 2026.