© Alina Simmelbauer
The touring exhibition "Culture Rescuers: How to Resist?", which can be visited in Hamburg, Dresden, and Stuttgart in 2024, addresses National Socialist injustice perpetrated against marginalized and persecuted groups and makes it possible to see how victims of National Socialist persecution helped to save culture under the most difficult conditions.
The focus is on perspectives and personal stories which have not yet been told, or have hardly been told at all, and which render cultural rescue visible across the board: from material (everyday) objects to non-material culture. The exhibition is being developed in a process of co-creation; it includes representatives and descendants of the victim groups in nationwide workshops. One focus will be the continuity of National Socialist injustice up to the present day, for example against Roma and Sinti. The aim is to develop an inviting, diverse exhibition that can be experienced with all the senses and which also provides space for creative interventions. Peer-to-peer guides will take visitors through the exhibition.
The multimedia exhibition will also be reproduced digitally so that people who cannot be on site will also have low-threshold access. With the nationwide social media campaign "#WieWiderstehen? [#How to Resist?]", the faces and stories of those who resisted and stood up for democracy, equality, and diversity before 1945 and until today will also become visible.
About KOOPERATIVE BERLIN
KOOPERATIVE BERLIN has now been working at the interface of digital media, contemporary history, education, and culture for over ten years. Its work focuses on the design and production of innovative event, narrative and exhibition formats.