Anti-war museum

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The first location of the Anti-War Museum at Parochialstraße 29 (center of picture or third house entrance from the right) in 1930

The Anti-War Museum is located in Berlin , in Brussels Street 21 in the Wedding district ( Mitte district ). It is the world's first anti- war museum and was founded by the anarchist - pacifist war opponent Ernst Friedrich in 1923.

history

Commemorative plaque inaugurated in 2002 at the first location of Ernst Friedrich's International Anti-War Museum in Berlin-Mitte (Parochialstr. 1–3)

The museum, founded by Ernst Friedrich in 1923, was initially located at Parochialstrasse 29 in Berlin-Mitte (not far from Alexanderplatz ). In addition to objects from the First World War , pictures by Käthe Kollwitz and Otto Dix were exhibited. Käthe Kollwitz also illustrated publications by Ernst Friedrich. In addition, the museum's founder succeeded in procuring and exhibiting photographs of war mutilated people. After the Nazis closed and looted the museum in 1933, Ernst Friedrich reopened his museum in Brussels in 1936, where it was completely destroyed again in 1940 after the German occupation of Belgium . The former anti-war museum in Berlin served as the SA storming room until the building was destroyed during the Second World War and was one of the most notorious torture chambers in Berlin.

On May 2, 1982 - the 15th anniversary of the museum's founder's death - the museum was re-established in Berlin. It was temporarily located in Berlin-Kreuzberg and has been in its current location since October 1984.

Current exhibition

Metal sculpture broken rifle by Angelo Monitillo from 2005 in the outdoor area of ​​today's Anti-War Museum

The horrors of the past world wars , pacifist actions and the current war situation in the world are documented in a permanent exhibition . An air raid shelter can also be visited, the interior of which has been reconstructed true to the original. Special topics are dealt with in changing exhibitions, and a Peace Gallery shows art against war. The museum is open daily (including Sundays and public holidays) from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Admission is free.

literature

  • Tommy Spree: A Museum for Peace. Anti-War Museum brochure. Berlin 2004, 48 pages.
  • Helmut Donat and Karl Holl (eds.): The peace movement. Hermes Hand Lexicon. Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-612-10024-6 .
  • Ulrich Linse (Ed.), Manfred J. Rauch (Mitw.): Ernst Friedrich on the 10th anniversary of his death. In: European Ideas. Issue 29, Berlin 1977, ISSN 0344-2888.
  • Ernst Friedrich: From the Peace Museum to the Hitler Barracks. A factual report on the work of Ernst Friedrich and Adolf Hitler (autobiography), Schwarz, St. Gallen / Genossenschafts-Buchhandlung, Zurich 1935; New edition with a contribution on Ernst Friedrich by Walther G. Oschilewski , Libertad, Berlin 1978 DNB 790497107 ; current edition published by the Anti-War Museum Berlin: Books on Demand , Norderstedt 2007, ISBN 978-3-8334-9523-6 .
  • Ernst Friedrich: War against war! Guerre à la guerre. War against war! Oorlog aan den Oorlog! . 2 volumes, Free Youth , Berlin 1924 and 1926 ( DNB 560487576 ); Newly published by the Anti-War Museum Berlin, with an introduction by Gerd Krumeich , Links, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86153-828-8 (in one volume).

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Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 45 ″  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 51 ″  E