Silvia Queen of Sweden, My Life for the Children / A Secular Prayer

By: Ronald Grätz and Hans-Joachim Neubauer
A conversation / photographs.

144 pages with numerous photos. Linen cover. 16 x 24 cm.

Queen Silvia of Sweden is one of the most prominent representatives of European aristocracy. Her extraordinary popularity is also due to her tireless commitment to children, seniors, and people with disabilities . For this commitment, she received the Theodor Wanner Prize, which the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations awards to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to promoting intercultural dialogue and promoting peace and international understanding .

Queen Silvia will talk about the work of her World Childhood Foundation, founded in 1999, with which she has supported more than a thousand projects worldwide over the past twenty years. She will also share insights into her personal story and discuss her experiences as a supporter of the poor and needy.

British Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins is one of the great documentarians of our time. Over the past five decades, he has photographed thousands of children. He treats each of these children with respect and humility; each represents their own unique story, their own path. Steele-Perkins discovers the political in the personal. With empathy and the unerring eye of a realist, he succeeds in revealing the fate imposed on children by adults. His pictures speak of despair and accusation, but also, time and again, hope and confidence that a better world might be possible.

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