Forced Labor and Resistance – Augmented Reality Application on the History of the Kampnagel Site
© Aileen Pinkert
© Aileen Pinkert
Kampnagel represents contemporary performance, dance and theater in Hamburg for 40 years. So far, there is little evidence of the site's past during the National Socialist era. In the project Kampnagel is regarded as a place of remembrance and also of encounter and the history is reviewed. In doing so, an innovative prototype will be developed which demonstrates a cultural center's critical examination of its own history in the sense of a pioneering, responsible culture of remembrance.
In the project Kampnagel is regarded as a place of remembrance and also of encounter and the history is reviewed. In doing so, an innovative prototype will be developed which demonstrates a cultural center's critical examination of its own history in the sense of a pioneering, responsible culture of remembrance.
Exemplary biographies of forced laborers and facts about the resistance are digitally processed and communicated to the 180,000 annual visitors. In an AR app for smartphones used on the site, individual narrative strands and life images are selected in order to make the contemporary historical context comprehensible with avatars and original documents.
Kampnagel
Kampnagel is the largest production house for contemporary performance, dance, and theater in Europe. It is situated on the site of the former Kampnagel factory that was converted into an armaments factory during the National Socialist era, used more than 1,000 forced laborers and kept them in six separate camps in Hamburg. Resistance was organized in company underground groups and acts of sabotage were carried out. It is well overdue that the Center for Fine Arts is addressing this history now.
Cooperation partners:
Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg
Funding country: Germany
Duration: 01.10.2022 until 31.07.2024