| Dear Readers, |
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What do a theater laboratory for young people, a projection onto a building facade and an educational workshop for municipalities have in common? Not much at first glance – do you think? And yet, these three projects of the Education Agenda NS-Injustice – representative of currently 32 projects – are characterized by the goal of commemorating the National Socialist persecution in a historically conscious and active manner and of working audibly in an unusual approach towards discrimination.
For almost a year now, the forward-looking remembrance project initiated by the Federal Ministry of Finance has been on the move: with a considerable output of art installations, theater premieres, workshops, digital games and mobile applications, we can affirm:
Alive – Culture of remembrance comes alive when we stretch boundaries and apply new narrative forms via the different approaches of learning and cultural locations, workplaces and urban spaces.
Active – Remembrance becomes active where young people, theater lovers or professionals research, reflect and tell stories themselves beyond learning.
Audible – Culture of remembrance becomes audible when it makes references to the present, to continuities of discrimination, and when it gives voice to groups of victims that were hitherto hardly audible.
In this newsletter, you can read about the impact of the projects of the Education Agenda NS-Injustice. To this effect: Stay in touch, inform and engage with us.
Dr. Andrea Despot
CEO of the EVZ Foundation |
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| THEATER DER JUNGEN WELT |
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"The present can be fiction and narration but we cannot rewrite history" |
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| Positioning itself clearly against the oblivion of history is what the "Theater der Jungen Welt" (Young Spectator's Theater) does in the artistic triad of play, serious game and performance. The MIRROR // MIRROR project reflects historical sites and events of NS forced labor with current questions from everyday life, the world of work and anti-democratic tendencies. The digital dramatic advisor Florian Heller and game designer Sebastian Quack explain in an interview where the boundaries between fact and fiction lie in game development and how productive the intersection between game design, theater and memorial site can be. The project-supporting magazine "Lost History" provides further impetus for new forms of remembrance. |
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Discover the interview, magazine & game  |
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HISTORISCHES MUSEUM FRANKFURT
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Digital Memory Platform: Frankfurt and the National Socialism |
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| Would you like to know something about National Socialism in Frankfurt am Main? The Digital Memory Platform "Frankfurt and the National Socialism" provides orientation: From November 10, the platform will provide access to many offers and events of museums, archives and initiatives. |
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| Learning, researching and co-designing |
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| STIFTUNG NIEDERSÄCHSISCHE GEDENKSTÄTTEN |
Educational Materials for the Police, the Federal Armed Forces and the Judiciary |
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| What challenges present themselves in historical educational work together with members of the police, the Federal Armed Forces and the judiciary? What has proven successful in sensitizing them to critical questions and raising their awareness? For each professional group, the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation has now provided five modules online, which are based on research and experience from the project "Recht ist, was dem Staat nützt?" (Right is what benefits the state?) |
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| Discover learning modules |
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SECOND FUNDING PHASE |
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The New Education Agenda Projects Are Here! |
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| Participatory exhibition concepts, virtual historical eyewitness, the history of property stolen by the National Socialists, ways of remembering Jewish life and much more – the new projects of the Education Agenda NS-Injustice, which will start with the second funding phase this autumn, examine historical educational work from various perspectives and find innovative and inclusive formats for it. |
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| All projects at a glance |
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| RETROSPECT ON FOUR PROJECTS |
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How Does Occupational Group-Specific Education Against Discrimination Succeed? |
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In recent months, four projects have worked intensively on how to impart knowledge on racism, antisemitism, LGBTIQ hostility, ableism or antigypsyism in the judiciary, police, and administration and how to build corresponding competences. At the end of the project, it is worth taking a first look at the previous findings on job-specific offers.
Digital or analog, at an historical site or in a conference room, in combination with anti-bias training, encounter education or diversity consulting – the approaches of the project sponsors are as diverse as the challenges. In principle, however, it can be stated that access to the target group is always successful if the offers are closely oriented to their interests and are enriched by professional group-specific materials and practice-oriented methods.
Findings on which the EVZ Foundation can now build. In a project on antisemitism-critical education, we are devoting ourselves to a new target group: employees from German companies. |
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| Learn more about our own project |
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| Numerous attentive faces – this is how the first input and networking meeting of the Education Agenda NS-Injustice can be summarized. On September 19 and 20, 2022, the project sponsors met in Berlin to get acquainted and network. A complete success: After talks and workshops with and from experts on topics such as digital education and hate speech on the first day, the participants were able to engage in dialog on the second day during self-designed bar camp sessions and exchange ideas on central questions across projects: What does it mean, for example, to make an exhibition participatory, how can historical images be ethically displayed, and how does occupation-based education against antisemitism succeed? Especially, their insight into other areas of work enabled them to provide new stimulus. On November 23, the dialog will enter the next round in the communication kick-off for the projects of the second funding phase. |
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| Watch the video from the networking meeting |
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KATAPULT
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Culture of Remembrance. At some Point, It Has to Be Over! Right? |
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| The recently published edition of the social-scientific map magazine deals with aspects of the culture of remembrance for which, according to Katapult, Germany is a prime example. At the same time, many Germans demanded to finally draw a line under history and move on. The perpetrators and followers of National Socialism rejected the blame or declared themselves victims. On the basis of figures from the Multidimensional Remembrance Monitor (MEMO), Katapult states: "The next generations rarely remembered their grandparents and great-grandparents as perpetrators – despite all the efforts of the culture of remembrance." |
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| Check out edition 27/202 |
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| DEUTSCHLANDFUNK KULTUR |
Stumbling Against the Far Right – Theater in Social Space |
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| In a half-hour report, Deutschlandfunk Kultur devotes itself to the youth theater project "stolpern" (stumbling). The cooperation between the Schaubühne Berlin and the Piccolo Theater Cottbus, is more than a play that feels "like an intensive workshop", it is also "stories like this that are touching." Many of the young people involved have their own say in the program by Thilo Schmidt and report on their experiences over the past few months. |
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| Listen to the program |
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| LEIPZIGER ZEITUNG |
In the Footsteps of NS Forced Labor in Leipzig's Urban Space |
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| For the Leipziger Zeitung, Ralf Julke reports on the Serious Game TRACING REMEMBRANCE, with which the Theater der jungen Welt Leipzig conveys a “quirky approach to history” and draws gamers "ever deeper" into the question of how to deal with the urban space of "lingering memories: Who has an interest in preserving them? What opportunities do they provide? And who wants to delete them?" |
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| Read the article |
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Dr. Alina Bothe, Project Manager for #LastSeen of the Arolsen Archives |
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Dr. Bothe, what is #LastSeen about and what links do you see to other projects of the Education Agenda NS-Injustice?
#LastSeen deals with the images of NS deportations from the German Reich between 1938 and 1945. Our goal is to capture all known images, to find new ones, and to explore the images as deeply as possible. The photos will then be published together with the image and context information on a specially designed digital platform, the Image Atlas. At the same time, we are developing a digital learning game for young people and young adults. In this way, we are creating new digital approaches – which I also see as a strong link to many other projects in the Education Agenda NS-Injustice. One example is the web project of the NS-Documentation Center of the City of Cologne. Here, too, it is a matter of finding an ethically appropriate way to demonstrate within digital space what we do not see, and of making vanished Jewish life virtually visible again. Another example is the mobile game of the Theater der jungen Welt, which addresses forced labor in National Socialism. Similar to our learning game, history is located in the concrete urban space and expanded into the digital realm. |
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| Read the full interview |
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NOVEMBER 9, COLOGNE |
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Projection of the Façade in Commemoration of the November Pogroms of 1938 |
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| At the former site of the Glockengasse Synagogue, which was destroyed in 1938, a large-scale viewing of the NS-Documentation Center of the City of Cologne takes place: Stories and feelings of the Jewish inhabitants of the city are brought into the urban and collective consciousness here in commemoration of the November pogroms. |
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NOVEMBER 12, LEIPZIG |
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| Premiere: THE FUTURE IS YOURS |
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| A participatory project about resistance and solidarity in the past, present, and future: In the play, people between the ages of 14 and 78 deal with the perspectives of former forced laborers and visions of a solidarity-based coexistence. |
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| Find out more |
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UNTIL DECEMBER 9, MUNICH |
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Theater Festival: Remembrance as Work on the Present |
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| For around 50 days, "Remembrance as Work on the Present": the festival impressively realizes this claim in the form of premieres, readings, and guest performances on all stages of the Munich Kammerspiele, in the newly founded Neuperlach theater laboratory and in the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism. |
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| To the program |
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DECEMBER 11, BERLIN |
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Klassenzimmer: Vanessa Vu in Conversation with David de Jong |
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| The December edition of the series of talks “Klassenzimmer” (Classroom) with journalist Vanessa Vu is devoted to material conditions that arose in the National Socialist regime and persist to this day. For his non-fiction book "Braunes Erbe" (National Socialist heritage), guest David de Jong researched the history of the richest German entrepreneurial dynasties. |
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EDITION 12/2022 |
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Our Next Edition Is Due in Early December! |
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| The year is drawing to a close: at the beginning of December, the last edition of our newsletter with new topics from the EVZ Foundation will be published for 2022. We take a look at the year 2023, which with the MEMO youth study and a continuation of the project "Asking the Pope for Help", among other things, holds new milestones for the field of historical-political education. |
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| All editions at a glance |
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Responsible:
Dr. Andrea Despot
Editorial:
Hanna Komornitzyk, Katrin Kowark, Thomas Stein, Sophie Ziegler
Image Credits:
Stefan Hoyer, Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten, Raum11 / Jan Zappner, Raum11 / Jan Zappner, Dr. Alina Bothe / privat |
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