Exile Museum Berlin Foundation

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The Exilmuseum Berlin Foundation intends to set up a museum in Berlin since 2018  about the people who left or had to leave their home country ( German Empire under the Nazi dictatorship ) due to Nazi rule . The project is a civic initiative led by the Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller and the Berlin art dealer and co-founder of Villa Grisebach , Bernd Schultz. The Exilmuseum Berlin Foundation was founded in 2018. The preferred location for the museum is the open space behind the ruined portal of the Anhalter train station . A corresponding resolution was passed in September 2018 by the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg District Assembly.

Many of the people affected (e.g.) , such as Heinrich Mann or Bertolt Brecht from the German Reich , drove into exile from this central Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin , or many were deported from there a little later .

In August 2020, the foundation wants to present the results of an international architecture competition. The construction costs of 27 million euros are to be financed through donations and private funds.

The well-known historian and museum man Christoph Stölzl  , who has already founded the German Historical Museum Berlin, has been won over as the designated founding director of the museum . In addition to the Nobel Prize for Literature, Herta Müller , Federal President Joachim Gauck a. D. as patron of the project. The former State Secretary for Culture André Schmitz is the chairman of the Exilmuseum Foundation .

The initiators named the following goals:

The museum
... focuses on individual life stories . They are the actors and carriers of the history of exile.
... traces the experience of exile on the basis of certain motifs and topics. ... makes historical backgrounds understandable. It understands the emigration from the sphere of influence of the National Socialists as an injustice that still concerns us today. What can we learn from history for today? ... tells of the forced emigration after 1933 in the knowledge that the century of exile has still not come to an end. How did flight and uprooting become central experiences of our time in Germany and around the world? Can the 20th century be spoken of as a “century of exile” ? ... also focuses on the present: Over 65 million people around the world are currently on the run - every 113th person is affected. What is the connection between exile then and now? ... reports on how the exodus from Central Europe also became a transnational transfer of ideas. It shows how migration changes cultural patterns in a significant way - an insight that is becoming increasingly important for peaceful coexistence in a globalized world.

In this way, past, present and future-related aspects for the museum are mentioned as well as national and international aspects. The museum is to be developed in partnership and exchange with museums, archives and research institutions that are already working on the subject of exile.

The response to the project in the press has so far been consistently positive.

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  1. ↑ Die Welt: Auction for Berlin Exile Museum brings 6.3 million euros . October 27, 2018
  2. ↑ Exilmuseum Berlin Foundation: Intro. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Andreas Abel: Exile Museum is to be built at Anhalter Bahnhof. July 7, 2018, accessed on March 6, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Exile Museum Foundation presents proposals in August. Retrieved June 27, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Exilmuseum Berlin Foundation: Intro. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  6. ↑ analogous quotes from the homepage
  7. ↑ Andreas Abel: Exile Museum is to be built at Anhalter Bahnhof ... The district office welcomes the project. In: Berliner Morgenpost of July 7, 2018
    Nikolaus Bernau: Exile Museum Berlin's new landscape of memories should not cost the state anything. In: Berliner Zeitung (BZ) from July 22, 2018
    rbb evening show: To the news video from October 25, 2018 (funds are to be used for the German Exile Museum, Grisebach founder is auctioning his own collection)