EXHIBITION *** Extended until October 9 ***
SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE
A reminder – September 19, 1937 – City of Youth
by Wolfgang Hauck
Duration of the exhibition: September 16 to October 9, 2022
In the container at the Infanterieplatz, Landsberg am Lech
Opening hours daily, but depending on weather and availability. Usually between 11 am to 6 pm and by appointment.
Admission free
Information and documents: www.LandsbergHistory.de
COMMENTS OF THE AUDIENCE
“… A brilliant idea to bring history to the people and not wait until they go to the museum.”
“I’ve lived in Landsberg for 20 years and didn’t know all this, thank you!”
“My grandpa had kept a diary about it with two friends. I was allowed to look at it once when I was 17, for a technical paper. But I had to promise not to mention any names and not to pass it on to anyone.”
“No, I haven’t heard anything yet. Very important to show something like that in the middle of the city!”
“… Frightening how the youth was seduced and how targeted the propaganda was.”
“… I still knew Anton Posset from school lessons. It was not always easy to get along with him, but without his commitment one would not know or have available all this today. With the street names, the city should also discuss whether not to name a street after him? …”
“Decentralized history work – convincingly solved, encourages further reading and reaches many who would otherwise never go to a museum, certainly not on this topic.”
“Great, I was here yesterday and again today to show it to my friends. I am glad to hear that there will be an English and digital version. I will share it!”.
THEME “CITY OF YOUTH”
In 1937, the “Adolf Hitler Confession March” led thousands of Hitler Youth youth from all over Germany first to the Reich Party Congress of the NSDAP in Nuremberg to pledge allegiance to the Führer.
Afterward, about 1800 boys of the Hitler Youth marched on to Landsberg am Lech. At the first final rally on September 19, 1937, on the main square, Landsberg am Lech was named “City of Youth” by the Reich Youth Leader, thus expanding its status as a “place of pilgrimage for National Socialism.”
For the first time in 1980/81, a student project drew attention to this history. In 1993, after private research, a series of essays on it was published. Nevertheless, after 85 years, this chapter of the city’s history has been pushed out of the collective memory.
The exhibition addresses this memory gap with an artistic installation based on the research of 1993 and exemplarily outlines the current state of historical awareness.
Idea and realization: Wolfgang Hauck
Illustration: Gonzalo Orce
Consulting: Dr. Edith Raim, Manfred Deiler
Production: dieKunstBauStelle e. V., Landsberg am Lech
Funding: German Foundation for Commitment and Volunteering
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Memory culture and historical awareness
SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE – City of Youth
The talk about the exhibition took place on September 19, 2022 in the foyer of the Landsberg Municipal Theater.85 years ago the end of the “Adolf Hitler confession marches” took place in Landsberg and Landsberg received the title “City of Youth”.
RECORDING
www.landsberghistory.deSPEAKER
EXHIBITION
Opening hours will be published on the website. Usually, the exhibition is between 10 am to 6 pm.
SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE –
STADT DER JUGEND
RECORDING
SPEKAER
EXHIBITION
The exhibition will be on display at Infanterieplatz in Landsberg until October 9.
Opening hours will be published on the website.
Future Flashback – End of the exhibition in Landsberg
The exhibition has been dismantled since 13.11.2020 and the leaves still mark the location at the Karolinenbrücke.
Many thanks to the secondary school in Landsberg, the pupils who produced these wonderful contributions.
Many thanks to the city of Landsberg for the support with the building fences by the municipal building yard for the exhibition.
Many thanks to the support from the programme “Kultur macht stark” by the Turkish community in Germany, who made this presentation and workshop possible. This marks the end of three years and 11 extensive workshops. But it will continue in 2021!
Many thanks to all the participants and speakers who have undertaken this journey through time together.
And – the digital version of the exhibition is still available and will be expanded. Soon the contributions – virtual spaces – from Ukraine and Turkey will follow. The view into the future has only just begun.
THE DIGITAL EXHIBITION CONTINUES
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2020-1945: A CURRENT INVENTORY OF THE LANDSBERG CULTURE OF REMEMBRANCE
*** The exhibition has been expanded and extended until 31.12.2020 ***
The exhibition shows the invisible and yet present.
75 years after the end of the Second World War.
EXPANSION FROM 1.11.2020
The exhibition has been extended and now also shows the 360° documentation of the exhibition “From Lithuania to Landsberg”.
This exhibition by Karla Schönebeck (idea, concept and text) and Wolfgang Hauck (design and realisation) was shown at the “Wolf Durmashkin Composition Award” 2018 in Landsberg and afterwards at Boston College in Boston (USA).
“The exhibition ‘From Lithuania to Landsberg’ is a search for traces, in the course of which the paths of victims and perpetrators cross several times and, last but not least, come full circle at the Lech River.” Karla Schönebeck
PERSPECTIVE OF THE EXHIBITION 2020-1945
For some, a long time ago, for others just over and still much too close.
How does a city and its society deal with the culture of memory?
What is visible, what is not?
What is done, what is omitted?
What is conscious, what unconscious?
What is there without being visible?
The digital exhibition rooms open up online, 3D animations invite discovery through VR glasses.
In this way, a digital exhibition that is not really there can still be experienced.
Can this virtual reality be an image of our collective memory?
Step into a room that is only apparently empty and decide for yourself!
The exhibition is free of charge.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The video of the opening, a catalogue, press releases and further information can be found on the website: www.LandsbergHistory.de
SUPPORT
Hans Heinrich Martin Foundation, theKunstBauStelle e. V.
IDEA, CONCEPT AND REALISATION
Virtual experience spaces by Wolfgang Hauck
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On 27 March Wolfgang Hauck opened the exhibition at 6:30 pm.
The speech was broadcast live on a YouTube channel.
Due to exit restrictions it was not possible for the invited guests to be directly on site, but about 60 people followed the opening live via streaming. Now you can watch the recording of the opening at any time.
Virtual openings like this one will be seen more often during the Corona pandemic. This is a successful example of how we can design and run cultural events despite the current restrictions.
But the digital format of this exhibition, which was designed for VR (virtual reality) glasses and as an online presentation, is also out of the ordinary. This also makes the opening a premiere for a new genre.
The theme of the current stocktaking of the culture of memory is particularly suitable for negotiating the problems of a culture of memory in the age of a collective memory that is constantly expanding digitally.
Wolfgang Hauck’s exhibition does not provide a solution, but rather identifies many more omissions and deficiencies, and also objectively points out the wilderness and dangers of the digital legacy.
At the same time he demonstrates with his use of digital means, a way to develop a historical and cultural awareness and to integrate it into the regular anniversaries of remembrance.
ONLINE EXHIBITION
www.LandsbergHistory.de/exhibition
WEBSITE
VIDEO OF THE OPENING OF LANDSBERG HISTORY
1945-2020:
A CURRENT INVENTORY OF THE LANDSBERG CULTURE OF MEMORY
by Wolfgang Hauck
OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION
Friday 27 March 2020, 18:30
EXHIBITION DURATION
28.3. until 14.4.2020, 15-18 hrs each
Closed on 30 March, 6, 10, 12 and 13 April 2020
EXHIBITION
The exhibition shows the invisible and yet present.
75 years after the end of the Second World War.
For some, a time long past, for others just past and still far too close.
How does a city and society deal with the culture of memory?
What is visible, what is not?
What is done or not done?
What is conscious, what unconscious?
What is there without being visible?
VR glasses (3D animations) as digital access to memory transform space. Thus an exhibition appears that is not there.
Can virtual reality be an image of our collective memory?
Step into a space that is only apparently empty and decide for yourself.
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www.LandsbergHistory.de
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