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Panel discussion - Yesterday and today: Crises and new beginnings in interwar Europe

Politics & Society: Europe in the 1920s and today
[Translate to Englisch:] William Roberts, Les Routiers, um 1931, Öl auf Leinwand, Courtesy of Board of Trustees of National Museums Northern Ireland ©️ Estate of John David Roberts. By permission of the Treasury Solicitor, Ulster Museum Collection

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Chemnitz, Museum Gunzenhauser
Stollberger Straße 2, 09119 Chemnitz
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Yesterday and today: Crises and new beginnings in Europe between the wars

Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 7 pm, Museum Gunzenhauser

Panel guests:

Stefanie Middendorf, contemporary historian, University of Jena

Christian Bommarius, freelance author

Moderation: Gemma Pörzgen, journalist

 

The exhibition European Realities deals with the social and political upheavals of the interwar period in Europe. It opens up a field of tension between cultural prosperity, technological progress and economic upswing, but also a deep democratic crisis, poverty and the rise of right-wing movements.

 

In this event, we dare to take a historical look back and ask: Can we draw parallels with the situation 100 years ago or is this comparison less tenable due to the changed initial situation? Christian Bommarius and Stefanie Middendorf, both well-versed experts on the interwar period and the socio-political tensions of the time, will discuss these questions.

 

In cooperation with the Saxon State Centre for Political Education and part of the series Europe needs dialogue!

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Chemnitz Art Collections

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European Realities

The exhibition project European Realities at the Gunzenhauser Museum includes positions from various European countries, in particular from Northern, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The diverse realist movements that were visible almost everywhere in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s are shown on an up to now unique scale. The exhibition tells of hunger and misery, of the modernisation of industry, reports on the economic upswing and cultural prosperity, of technical progress, the big city and nightlife, emancipation and diversity. The exhibition is part of the main programme of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025.

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European Capital of Culture The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media Free State of Saxony European Capital of Culture

This project is cofinanced by tax funds on the basis of the parliamentary budget of the state of Saxony and by federal funds from the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media), as well as funds from the City of Chemnitz.