„Demokratie vor Ort: Resonanz-Raum-Ausstellung" Wanderausstellung

In the organizer's words:

Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 16:00

Location: Kulturhaus Süderelbe I Am Johannisland 2 I 21147 Hamburg

The traveling exhibition "Demokratie vor Ort: Resonanz-Raum-Ausstellung" is a cooperation project of the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Hamburg and the Public History Department of the University of Hamburg, funded by the foundation "Orte der deutschen Demokratiegeschichte". It was opened on November 4, 2024 in Neugraben-Fischbek.

With the "Places of (In)Visibility", it was possible to make the stories of people who came to Hamburg 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 memory 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.