In the project Multi-peRSPECTive at the Denkort Bunker Valentin Memorial in Bremen, people with and without experience as migrants and refugees explore traces of Nazi history in northern Germany. The project is aimed at young people who are interested in political history and who are actively involved in combating racism, discrimination and oppression. They get to know themselves and their own history, design educational seminars together, plan trips and report on them in the form of interviews and other media formats. They are the active circle of Multi-peRSPECTive, which is continuously changing as members can decide which actions they want to take part in.
In Multi-peRSPECTive, we discuss and exchange ideas about past and present wars and expulsions, about violence and exclusion, and about different forms of remembrance and commemoration. This will be informed by experiences from our own lives and how they have shaped our views of history and remembrance, and will influence our discussions. The project invites active participation in discussing what a dignified present and a better future for all might look like, with questions, discussions and reflections playing a crucial role. In particular, through encounters and negotiations, Multi-peRSPECTive offers spaces for the co-creation of memory culture(s), enables social participation and should be understood as an intervention in existing memory narratives. At the same time, it shows the demands on memory culture(s) in a society of the many: to whom do memorials and places of remembrance belong? Who speaks? Who are we talking about? Which perspectives are visible and which are not? Who designs and shapes places of remembrance and how can they be influenced?
The workshops and excursions are documented audio-visually to show current perspectives on history and remembrance as they emerge from our active circle. Over the course of the project, participants will be empowered to become experts themselves in history education and to lead excursions and workshops. Their active cooperation as multipliers, interpreters, artists and documenters is an important part of Multi-peRSPECTive. The project is process-oriented. Current debates and issues arising from the workshops provide impulses for subsequent steps. This is based on four pillars: listening, raising awareness, empowerment and documentation. These questions are the centre of focus: What is your history? How do you want to remember?
Our documentary film To Feel a Strong Connection Through History - Multi-peRSPECTive: Trip to East Westphalia is an example of a multi-perspective confrontation with various sites associated with the Nazi past and its continuity. Our excursions to historical sites are designed as interventions to open up perspectives and tell new histories – because we are all experts when it comes to our own histories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOkaG6KwNFk
You can gain some impressions of our project via our multi-media platform in the Info Centre at the Bunker Valentin memorial or online at www.denkort-bunker-valentin.de/multip
Contact
Ksenja Holzmann
Education Staff Member
Email: ksenja.holzmann@bunkervalentin.de
Phone: 0421 / 69 67 36 70
Denkort Bunker Valentin/ LzpB Bremen
Rekumer Siel, 28777 Bremen
www.denkort-bunker-valentin.de
