Agenda
Events on the grounds of the concentration camp
Sunday, 28 January 2024, 11 a.m. / Countering anti-Semitism - service to mark the 20th Remembrance Day in German football / Protestant Church of Reconciliation at the concentration camp memorial site
The "Remembrance Day in German Football Initiative" was launched 20 years ago by the Church of Reconciliation. In close cooperation with fan initiatives, the DFB and the DFL, activities are planned around the match days before and after 27 January in the stadiums of the two Bundesliga leagues. Events, talks and exhibitions will be organised in many cities around the match days.
This year's Remembrance Day and the church service organised by Deacon Frank Schleicher will focus on anti-Semitism and the question of how we can counter it.
Further information can be found at www.niewieder.info
Location: Evangelical Church of Reconciliation at the Concentration Camp Memorial, Alte Römerstr. 87, 85221 Dachau.
On Sunday, 4 February 2024, the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial will be showing the theatre production "The Trial of Hans Litten" at 7.00 pm
On Sunday, 4 February 2024, the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial will be showing the theatre production "The Trial of Hans Litten" at 7 p.m. to mark the 86th anniversary of his death. The play is dedicated to the short life of lawyer Hans Litten, who dedicated himself to the fight against National Socialism and died in Dachau concentration camp on 4 February 1938. Admission is free, registration at www.eventbrite.de is requested.
further information in German at the kz-gedenkstaette.
Thursday, 8 February 2024, 7 p.m. / National Socialism in film - making cinema films accessible as historical sources / Protestant Church of Reconciliation at the concentration camp memorial site
In 2004, the film "Downfall" (directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel) sparked a controversial debate. While Bruno Ganz's acting performance as Adolf Hitler was praised, some commentators criticised the fact that Hitler was portrayed far too humanly, as a caring father figure. The debate shows that the critics were less concerned with the film and its cinematography than with how National Socialism was portrayed in popular culture in the 21st century. Historical films are often judged by their authenticity. In doing so, it is forgotten that they usually reflect the era in which they were produced much better than the actual historical event that they retell. The lecture would therefore like to use selected films to show how National Socialism has been portrayed since the 1940s and what conclusions we can draw from this for the public remembrance of National Socialism.
In order to explain and illustrate the changing visual confrontation with National Socialism, films from Europe, the USA and the Soviet Union will be analysed and embedded in their social and political contexts. The aim is to open up cinema films as a historical source and to classify their significance in the culture of remembrance and coming to terms with the Nazi crimes.
Speaker: Dr Tobias Hof, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History at the Department of History at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
In cooperation with: Evangelical Church of Reconciliation and Dachau Forum
Location: Evangelical Church of Reconciliation at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial (access in the evening only via Karmel Heilig Blut, Alte Römerstraße 91, 85221 Dachau)
Tuesday, 20 February 2024 | 19.00 hrs/Catalogue presentation "Zeitspuren. The Allach Subcamp Complex"
In 2016 and 2017, archaeological excavations by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments unearthed over 1000 objects from the site of the Allach subcamp complex. This is where concentration camp prisoners performed forced labour at BMW in the manufacture of aircraft engines and in the construction of a bunker for production. The recently published catalogue presents the exhibition "Traces of Time. The Allach Subcamp Complex", which was on display at the concentration camp memorial from 2020 to 2022. The catalogue is available in German and English. The volume also contains in-depth essays by those involved in the interdisciplinary exhibition project. Contemporary witnesses of the concentration camp have their say in many places. The exhibition and the accompanying volume are dedicated to them and the many victims of the Allach satellite camp complex.
Visitor centre of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial. Pater-Roth-Str. 2a, 85221 Dachau
Admission is free, please register at www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de. The venue is barrier-free. The event is not suitable for persons under the age of 13.
Thursday, 29 February 2024, 7 pm / Hitler's most extraordinary neighbour - book presentation with Ulrich Chaussy / Evangelical Church of Reconciliation at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site
While researching the village of Obersalzberg, Hitler's place of residence and second seat of government near Berchtesgaden, Ulrich Chaussy comes across Arthur Eichengrün (1867 -1949). Who was this forgotten Jewish neighbour of Hitler? The chemist was a researcher, inventor and entrepreneur all in one. He synthesised cocaine and we have him to thank for aspirin. He invented the incombustible cinema film and revolutionised the construction of fabric-covered aeroplanes and zeppelins. From 1933 onwards, all his achievements counted for nothing. He lost all his possessions. Suddenly the assimilated patriot was just one thing: a Jew, deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto.
Ulrich Chaussy, the journalist and non-fiction author known for his meticulous research into the right-wing terrorist Oktoberfest attack, writes Arthur Eichengrün back into the collective memory with his new book. "Arthur Eichengrün - Der Mann, der alles erfinden konnte, nur nicht sich selbst" will be published by Herder in autumn 2023.
Organiser: Evangelical Church of Reconciliation at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site
location: Evangelical Church of Reconciliation at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial (access in the evening only via Karmel Heilig Blut, Alte Römerstraße 91, 85221 Dachau)
