Der Salmen

The actress Blanche Kommerell has compiled a fascinating portrait of the Jewish poet Mascha Kaléko from poems, letters and stories. Kommerell creates an encounter with the stages of Kaléko's life ...

85 years ago, on 22.20.1940, the Gauleiter of Baden, Ernst Wagner, ordered the 349 Jewish people still living in Offenburg to the gymnasium of the Schiller Gymnasium. From there, they were transported ...

With this play, 30 pupils from Baden-Württemberg, Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate and France send out a signal that only cooperation across borders can carry forward the attitude of reconciliation ...

The Salmen is a memorial to all victims of National Socialism. During the Second World War, countless foreign soldiers were taken prisoner by the Germans. Several thousand men passed through the ...

Germany and France cultivate different cultures of remembrance. 80 years after the end of the Second World War, the question of how long guilt lasts and what remembrance means for politics is once ...

Memory is a Janus-faced counterpart - on the one hand, it hurts to think about the past because it seems to be gone and lost forever, on the other hand, we draw strength from the feeling that we can ...

The devastation of the synagogue on the night of the pogrom on November 9/10, 1938 also wiped out the Jewish community in Offenburg. In this commemorative concert, the "offenburger ensemble" contrasts ...

The persecution and destruction of Jewish life came to a head once again during the November pogroms of 1938. The supporters of the National Socialist regime destroyed synagogues, desecrated Jewish ...

Gustav Rée was the leading figure of the Offenburg democrats at the time. During his term of office as mayor (1845 - 1849), the town moved into the spotlight of major politics. Thanks in part to his ...

What is the value - what is the meaning of democracy in the past and present? In a multimedia production, 16 artists search for the sound of democracy. The interactive performance of music, language ...

On the 150th anniversary of Thomas Mann's birth, the Tübingen author Kurt Oesterle traces Thomas Mann's path from being apolitical to becoming an advocate of democracy in his essay "Long live the ...

Are humanity and dignity ideals, empty words, living concepts or lived reality? Where and how do we encounter them? Do you know the human duties? Formulated in 1997 as a Universal Declaration, they ...

The demands of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are intended to safeguard the individual freedom and autonomy of every human being. In addition to the articles proclaimed in 1948, a group of ...

The Salmen is a contemporary witness and a cultural monument of national importance. It has an eventful history: built as an inn with a banqueting hall above the stable building, made famous by the ...

What would have happened if these two artists had met? "A highly musical symbiosis with depth." She: Born in Israel in 1942, Jewish singer and actress. He: Born in Germany in 1900, Jewish-German and ...