Museo della ndrangheta

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Museo della ndrangheta
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Data
place Reggio Calabria , Italy
Art
Mafia Museum
opening 2009
Website

The Museum of 'Ndrangheta ( Italian : museo della ndrangheta ) opened on December 1, 2009 and is located in a confiscated Mafia villa in Reggio Calabria on the southern tip of the Italian peninsula.

The project itself was realized through the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Region of Calabria, the Province of Reggio Calabria, the Prefecture and Municipality of Reggio Calabria, as well as the Chair of Cultural and Social Sciences of the University of La Sapienza in Rome and the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Calabria .

Goal setting

The museum has set itself the task of making the diverse research on the Italian mafia association 'Ndrangheta accessible to the public. The aim is to fight organized crime through comprehensive education and information , to build stronger European solidarity and at the same time to activate civil society protest in Europe.

In order to have a specific place available in the fight against the economic , social and cultural power of the ndrangheta, the museum is to develop into an international study center that will avoid the danger of folklore . The project of the Ndrangheta Museum places the need to break the mentality of looking away and the omertà (German: “the silence”) at the center of its work and tries to counteract the mythologization of mafia machinations that is spread in the mass media and supported by the ndrangheta to deconstruct .

activities

schools

The direct cooperation with the youth and the daily struggle for the youth of Calabria, for which the ndrangheta often offers the only perspective for a livelihood, begins in the schools. The social and cultural work of the respective employees of the museum should give the young people the opportunity to recognize perspectives for a different future outside of the ndrangheta phenomenon.

The cooperation with various schools is aimed, among other things, at building a civil society base against the ndrangheta among young people, schoolchildren and students. One of the focal points in this context is based on imparting comprehensive knowledge and the direct involvement of young people in the exchange of information, research and experiences about the cultural, political and social activities of the ndrangheta.

In order to make the ndrangheta a “thing”, the design of the respective rooms in the museum should create a place where “words become stone”. It is precisely for this reason that the young people from Calabria take an active role in the implementation of their ideas and ideas regarding the construction of the museum.

Projects

A Mani libere (German: " Freehand ")

This compilation of imaginative short stories, represented by caricatures or interviews, is the result of the workshops that the Museum of ndrangheta organized in the school year 2008–2009.

Thanks to the collaboration with the Regional School Board of Reggio Calabria, the workshops led by the editors of the book were created at three different pilot schools in the same province in Calabria:

  • Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri High School , Taurianova
  • Vocational school for teacher training Giuseppe Mazzini , Locri
  • Vocational School for Industry and Crafts Enrico Fermi , Reggio Calabria

The pupils of these three schools, as well as the authors of the stories, were also given the opportunity to ask their questions to the Prefect Francesco Musolino, the Public Prosecutor Nicola Gratteri and the President of the Province of Reggio Calabria Giuseppe Morabito.

Conference: "The Wound"

The seminar took place from 22. – 25. November 2010 in Reggio Calabria. In this project, over four busy days, prosecutors, journalists, scientists, representatives of the security forces, the church and civil society contributed to increasing the level of knowledge about the ndrangheta in its many and complex aspects.

Among others, the chief anti-mafia public prosecutor of the city of Reggio Calabria Giuseppe Pignatone or Nicola Gratteri, chief public prosecutor of the anti-mafia unit of Reggio Calabria and Bernd Finger, chief criminal director of the State Criminal Police Office in Berlin and co-founder of the organization “Mafia? - No thanks! ”And many more took part in the conference.

On April 7, 2011, a book was published for the conference that brings together all the lectures of the seminar.

literature

Secondary literature

  • Gudrun Dietz: The 'Ndrangheta. The secret rise of the Calabrian mafia . 1st edition. Wiley-VCH-Verlag, Weinheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-527-50455-8 .
  • Petra Reski: Mafia. From false godparents, priests and pizzerias . Knaur-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-426-78162-3 .
  • Petra Reski: From Kamen to Corleone. The Mafia in Germany . Verlag Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-455-50163-6 .
  • Jürgen Roth: Mafialand Germany . Heyne-Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-60145-1 (extended and updated edition).
  • Roberto Saviano : Gomorrah. Journey to the realm of the Camorra . Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-34529-3 .
  • Roberto Saviano: The opposite of death . Hanser-Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23335-5 (Italian: Il contrario della morte . Translated by Friederike Hausmann, Rita Seuss).

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