We open the box. Talking about difficult history together
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We open the box. Talking about difficult history together is a format that invites open exchange and learning in carefully moderated and jointly organized discussion rounds. With reference to National Socialism in Linz, the focus is on its prehistory, its emergence, the continued impact of ideology, anti-Semitism and exclusion right up to the present day.
Each session provides food for thought through input from a guest. Based on this, we will develop thoughts and questions that we link to the exhibition Sehnsucht Frieden (on show at the Nordico Stadtmuseum from 19.9.25 to 8.3.26) and ask about our own longings: What longing drives us when we look at the history of National Socialism? What did people back then long for in terms of their future? In this way, we weave new threads between times, places and stories.
Concept and moderation:
Karin Schneider, Head of Art Education at Nordico and Wolfgang Schmutz, Educational Consultant
Next
| Date | Title | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 08.05 | We open the box: Unconscious contemporary history. About growing up in post-war Linz With Karl Fallend, social psychologist, grew up in the Bindermichl district, 1998 – 2000 member of the Historical Commission for the Reappraisal of Forced Labor in the former Hermann Göring Works in Linz. | 7:00 pm–9:00 pm |
| Thu 05.06 | We open the box: Alter Markt memorial site. Stories of time and signs of remembrance With Julius Stieber and Gerda Forstner (Cultural Directorate of the City of Linz), Andreas Strauss (artist “Erinnerungszeichen”), Verena Wagner (historian of Jewish Linz) and Charlotte Herman (President of the Jewish Community of Linz); research excursion to the old town of Linz, (weather permitting), meeting point and input at Nordico | 7:00 pm–9:00 pm |
| Thu 04.09 | We open the box: Thinking the end from the beginning I. Linz city society at the end of the 19th century, from liberal to German nationalist With Helga Embacher, contemporary historian, University of Salzburg | 7:00 pm–9:00 pm |
| Fri 03.10 | We open the box: Thinking the end from the beginning II. Franz Stelzhamer’s nationalism, his anti-Semitic fantasies of extermination and his memorial in the Volksgarten in Linz With Ludwig Laher, Germanist, author and board member of the IG österreichischer Autorinnen & Autoren, and Andrea Hubin, art historian and art mediator Research excursion to the Volksgarten in Linz (weather permitting), meeting point and input at Nordico | 3:00 pm–5:00 pm |
| Thu 06.11 | We open the box: Thinking the end from the beginning III: Richard Wagner’s redemptive anti-Semitism and its consequences With Sven Friedrich, Director of the Richard Wagner Museum Bayreuth | 7:00 pm–9:00 pm |
| Thu 04.12 | We open the box: The end is not the end I. Fraternities, their tower and their ideology in Linz With Andreas Peham, Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance, and the artists Anna Pech and Moritz Matschke, University of Art and Design Linz | 7:00 pm–9:00 pm |
| Thu 08.01 | We open the box: History of remembrance I. How does Linz talk about itself and National Socialism? With Niko Wahl (freelance curator), Johannes Kaska (Director of the Archive of the City of Linz), Andrea Bina (art and cultural historian, Director of the Nordico City Museum) and Sebastian Piringer (historian and project manager of “A Longing for Peace”) | 7:00 pm–9:00 pm |
| Thu 26.02 | We open the box: History and remembrance II: Of final strokes and victim myths With Monika Sommer, historian and founding director of the House of Austrian History | 7:00 pm–9:00 pm |
| Fri 20.03 | We open the box: History and memory III: A grotto railroad, a bridge, two main squares With Birgit Kirchmayr, contemporary historian, Johannes Kepler University Linz; research excursion from Linz’s main square via the Nibelungen Bridge to the Grottenbahn; meeting point: Trinity Column, main square | 3:00 pm–5:00 pm |
| Thu 16.04 | We open the box: The end is not the end II. Peace City Linz and what next? With Gerda Forstner, Head of the Linz Culture Department | 7:00 pm–9:00 pm |
Registration & Costs
Participation is free of charge. Please register at +43 732 7070 1912, karin.schneider@lentos.at or reserve a place via the contact form in the calendar (click on the desired date and “Reservation”).