„Demokratie vor Ort: Resonanz-Raum-Ausstellung“

In the organizer's words:

The traveling exhibition in the cooperation project "Demokratie vor
Resonanz-Raum-Ausstellung" between the State Center for Political
political education and the Public History Department of the University of
Hamburg, funded by the foundation "Places of German Democratic History", will open in Neugraben on November 4, 2024.
will be opened.
With the "Places of (In)Visibility", it was possible to tell the stories
of people who came to the Hanseatic city from the GDR,
for a broad public, but above all for young people in Hamburg.
visible in Hamburg. Central to this are the stories
and experiences of contemporary witnesses, which converge at specific
converge at specific places of local memory and become
become part of the city's history. Concrete questions about arriving in a democracy against the backdrop of dictatorship
experiences of dictatorship, but also the reception in a new
new society also play a role. The project "Democracy on site:
Resonance Space Exhibition" sheds light on these initial findings
from the "Places of (In)Visibility" project in a touring exhibition, focusing on the history(ies) of democracy in the here and now.
On display are three audio stations and contextualizing
panels on flight and arrival in Hamburg. The centerpiece of the exhibition
will be a participatory element that invites visitors to
to position themselves on central questions of democracy and freedom,
especially against the backdrop of stories of the SED dictatorship and
and GDR injustice. This gives visitors the opportunity to
the opportunity to make their own voice visible and thus
actively become part of the traveling exhibition.