Tag: National Socialism
Bavaria: A look into the brown abyss of justice after the world war – Bavaria
When Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann (FDP) leaves for Israel in a few days, he will have an exhibition from Erlangen with him. It is about the brown origins…
Weathered Fates: 200 Years of the Jewish Cemetery in Regensburg – Bavaria
The inscriptions on the Jewish cemetery in Regensburg, built 200 years ago, tell many touching stories. Before they finally wither, the author Waltraud Bierwirth evaluated part of them. She came…
Georges Adéagbo in the Barlach House: dialogue with the underpants
The artist Georges Adéagbo, who commutes between Benin and Hamburg, makes Ernst Barlach’s serious sculptures talk. source site
Story: Nathan the Outlaw
When the Nazis tried to cancel a film adaptation of Lessing: Months before the Hitler putsch in February 1923, the right-wingers showed their power in a Kulturkampf. source site
Special exhibition in the Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg – Munich
The face is emaciated, the nose long and pointed. The woman has closed her big eyes and listens to herself. She is pregnant, her arms lie protectively on her round…
Bavaria’s fateful year 1923: The year of the radicals – Bavaria
Inflation, war and extremism destabilized the young democracy of the Weimar Republic 100 years ago. How did the crisis lead to the catastrophe? There are still many sources lying dormant…
Bavaria in 1923: the year of the radicals – Bavaria
It’s a blessing that history doesn’t repeat itself, at least not in detail. It is all the more amazing how many parallels to the present can be seen when looking…
Ulrike Draesner in an interview about “The Transformed” – Munich
Violence against women had many faces during the Nazi era. What survival strategies did the women find? A conversation with the writer Ulrike Draesner, who makes the unsaid audible in…
White Rose Memorial Lecture by Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the LMU – Munich
The Federal President is trying to rouse those who still do not realize the danger. “Rip the cloak of indifference”: Frank-Walter Steinmeier takes up these words of the White Rose,…
Violence against women: Ulrike Draesner’s new novel “Die Verwandten” – Munich
Violence against women has many faces. During National Socialism, it ranged from the SS-Lebensbornheimen to mass rapes at the end of the war. What survival strategies did the women find,…