Background
Petra Lux grew up in a Catholic family and studied 1976–1980 Journalism at the Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig.
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As a journalist she saw in the German Democratic Republic no opportunity to realize their ideals, so they became involved as a youth clubhouse director of "Jörgen Schmidtchen" in Leipzig-Schönefeld for difficult youngsters, events organized literary evenings with non-conformist artists like Franz Fühmann and Wolfgang Hilbig and songwriters with critical texts. She founded the first women"s center in a state House of Culture of the German Democratic Republic, and organized, as well as the first cultural institution in the country, dance evenings for same-sex couples. She was then summarily dismissed in 1983.
In their living rooms and of her husband"s workshop then were held discussion groups and illegal concerts with artists who critically with the SED dictatorship grappled with, among others, Peter Gläser, Radjo Monk, Jürgen B. Wolff, Joachim Schäfer and Dieter Kalka.
Her private photo lab she set for the production of critical materials. On October 3, 1989 Petra Lux joined the Neues Forum (New Forum) and was among others at its spokeswoman.
She was a co-signatory of the call of the New Forum of October 12, 1989: "We demand immediate, here and now, public, equal dialogue..".
1990-1991 she worked as a journalist for women"s issues at the DAZ (Die Andere Zeitung/The Other Newspaper) and then again as a freelance author for print and broadcast media as well as the Leipziger Dokumentarund Kurzfilmfestival (Leipzig Documentary and Short Film Festival).
