Exhibition at the Haus der Wirtschaft – Stuttgart

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Natzweiler: Spuren – Traces | 13. Juni – 4. Juli 2018

Under the patronage of the Ministry of Economics, Labor and Housing of Baden-Württemberg, the exhibition “Spuren/Traces”, which is part of the photo project “Das Konzentrationslager Natzweiler und seine Außenlager auf beiden Seiten des Rheins” / “Camp de concentration Natzweiler et ses camps annexes sur les deux rives du Rhin” [engl.: The Natzweiler Concentration Camp and its subcamps on both sides of the Rhine] as well as the art project “Fraternité / Brüderlichkeit” [engl.: Fraternity] with its accompanying educational project, took place from June 13, 2018 to July 4, 2018, inclusive, at the Haus der Wirtschaft in Stuttgart. During the same period, the parallel exhibition on the French side took place at the CERD-Natzweiler Memorial.

The exhibition showed the joint search for traces of German and French artists, students, memorial site representatives and monument conservators on over 600 square meters. Three parts of the exhibition, ” Erinnerung/Mémoire” [engl: Memory], ” Kunst/Art ” and ” Denkmal/Monument ” introduced the topic of memorial work. Six of the large-format works of art as well as the associated student works were shown, along with the exhibition panels of the student photo project “Natzweiler and subcamps”. A further ten of the large-format paintings were set up in the grounds of the European Centre of Deported Resistance Members (CERD) near the former main camp from June 24, 2018. In addition, information panels and a film about the “Natzweiler subcamps” project, which aims to record the history of the camp, were shown; an accompanying event on June 29 allowed project participants from both countries to speak and exchange views from the perspective of monument preservation, art and memorials.

On Tuesday, June 12, 2018, the exhibition was opened with a ceremony on the European Heritage Label (EHL) at the Haus der Wirtschaft in Stuttgart. In March 2018, 15 memorials at sites of the former concentration camp in Alsace and Baden-Württemberg were awarded the European Heritage Label of the European Union for their cross-border work, which works against the repression and forgetting of this historical heritage of the Nazi era and makes an important contribution to international understanding.

 Feierliche  Überreichung der Plaketten des Europäischen  Kulturerbe-Siegels an die  Vertreter der zwölf Gedenkstätten. Roland  Ortwein (pädagogischer  Mitarbeiter der Gedenkstätte Kochendorf),  Nadja  Diemunsch  (VGKN-Beauftragte und Jugendguide der Gedenkstätte  Bisingen), Nikolaus  Back (Stadtarchivar Filderstadt, Leiter der  Gedenkstätte  Echterdingen-Bernhausen) und Bernd Klagholz (Stadtarchivar   Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Leiter der Gedenkstätte der Gedenkstätte   Echterdingen-Bernhausen), Walter Kinkelin (Vorsitzender), Sören Fuß   (Leiter der KZ-Gedenkstätte Vulkan, Mitglied des Vorstands der   Gedenkstätte Haslach), Marei Drassdo (Vorsitzende der Gedenktsätte   Leonberg), Marco Brenneisen (Vorsitzender der Gedenkstätte Sandhofen),   Dorothee Roos (Vorsitzende der Gedenkstätte Neckarelz), Brigitta   Marquart-Schad (Vorsitzende der Gedenkstätte Eckerwald), Gertrud   Winterhagen (Mitglied des Sprecherrates der Initiatve KZ-Gedenkstätte   Hessental), Wolfgang Schmid (Initiator der KZ- Initiative Spaichingen),   Jörg Becker (Vorstand der Gedenkstätte Vaihingen-Enz)
Ceremonial presentation of the plaques of the European Heritage Label to the representatives of the twelve memorial sites. Roland Ortwein (pedagogical assistant of the Kochendorf Memorial), Nadja Diemunsch (VGKN representative and youth guide of the Bisingen Memorial), Nikolaus Back (City Archivist Filderstadt, Director of the Echterdingen-Bernhausen Memorial) and Bernd Klagholz (City Archivist Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Director of the Echterdingen-Bernhausen Memorial), Walter Kinkelin (Chairman), Sören Fuß (Director of the Vulkan Concentration Camp Memorial, Member of the Executive Board of the Haslach Memorial), Marei Drassdo (Chairwoman of the Leonberg Memorial), Marco Brenneisen (Chairman of the Sandhofen Memorial), Dorothee Roos (Chairwoman of the Neckarelz Memorial), Brigitta Marquart-Schad (Chairwoman of the Eckerwald Memorial), Gertrud Winterhagen (Member of the Speaker’s Council of the Hessental Concentration Camp Memorial Initiative), Wolfgang Schmid (Initiator of the Spaichingen Concentration Camp Initiative), Jörg Becker (Director of the Vaihingen-Enz Memorial)

Ceremony: Invitation card with program Exhibition brochure with program for guided tours and colloquium (german)