Demokratie vor Ort: Resonanz-Raum-Ausstellung

In the organizer's words:

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday
13:00 to 18:00; Wednesday 9:00 to 13:00

The traveling exhibition "Demokratie vor Ort: Resonanz-Raum-Ausstellung" is a cooperation project of the Hamburg State Agency for Civic Education and the Public History Department of the University of Hamburg, funded by the foundation "Orte der deutschen Demokratiegeschichte". It will open on February 6.

In 2022/2024, the "Places of (In)Visibility" succeeded in making the stories of people who came to the Hanseatic city from the GDR visible to a broad public, but above all to young people in Hamburg. Central to this are the stories and experiences of contemporary witnesses, which converge at specific places of local remembrance and become part of the city's history. Specific questions about arriving in a democracy against the backdrop of experiences of dictatorship also play a role here, as does acceptance in a new society. The project "Demokratie vor Ort: Resonanz-Raum-Ausstellung" (Local Democracy: Resonance Space Exhibition) now sheds more light on these initial findings from the project "Orte der (Un-)Sichtbarkeit" (Places of (In)Visibility) in a traveling exhibition, focusing on the history(ies) of democracy in the here and now.

Three audio stations and contextualizing panels on flight and arrival in Hamburg are on display. At the heart of the exhibition is a participatory element that invites visitors to position themselves on central questions of democracy and freedom, especially against the backdrop of the stories of the SED dictatorship and GDR injustice. This gives visitors the opportunity to make their own voice visible and thus become an active part of the traveling exhibition.

The audio walk from the predecessor project "Places of (in)visibility" is of course still available. You can find it on the website www.orte-der-unsichtbarkeit.de.

A vernissage and finissage as well as guided tours by the curator and workshops are also planned, as is the open discussion format in the exhibition "In conversation with ...". You can find the respective dates at

https://demokratie-hamburg.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/#termine.

Curator and curator:

Theresa Hertrich and Jan Krawczyk

Responsible: Dr. Sabine Bamberger-Stemmann

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