Willy Brandt House Lübeck

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The Willy Brandt House Lübeck 2015
Detail: Circular Society Signum

The Willy-Brandt-Haus Lübeck is a museum and a memorial for the former German SPD politician, Federal Chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Willy Brandt .

The building, a branch of the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation based in Berlin, is also the seat of the Office for Monument Protection of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck in Schleswig-Holstein. It is the third after the Buddenbrookhaus , which commemorates the Lübeck-born Nobel Prize laureate Thomas Mann , his brother Heinrich Mann and the other members of the Mann family, the Günter Grass House , which is dedicated to the Nobel Prize laureate, painter and sculptor Günter Grass Establishment of the city that has a Lübeck Nobel Prize winner as its theme. The historian Bettina Greiner is the director of the Willy Brandt House .

Willy Brandt was not born in the building in downtown Lübeck, but in the St. Lorenz district.

history

The Willy Brandt House Lübeck was opened on December 18, 2007, the 94th birthday of Willy Brandt in his native city of Lübeck. The establishment of a memorial in Willy Brandt's mother city of Lübeck was inspired by the Nobel Prize laureate Günter Grass, who had had political ties to the politician since the 1960s.

The city of Lübeck provided the building in need of renovation, the patrician house at Königstraße 21. It had been the society house of the circle society founded in 1379 , a brotherhood of long-distance trade merchants, before it became the seat of the Higher Appeal Court of the four Free Cities in the 19th century , which included Bremen , Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main as well as the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. It was later used by the state archive of the Hanseatic city and as a public library. The renovation of the building, conversion and furnishing of the equipment cost 3.8 million euros after years of vacancy. The federal government contributed 2.8 million euros of this, and the German Foundation for Monument Protection took over one million euros .

In addition to politicians and Günter Grass, Willy Brandt's daughter Ninja Frahm, his son Peter Brandt and his two children and Brandt's widow Brigitte Seebacher took part in the opening .

Jürgen Lillteicher , who built it up and ran it for ten years, took over the management of the house until he took over the management of the Allied Museum in Berlin. He was followed on March 1, 2018 by Bettina Greiner .

exhibition

Modeled after the study of the young Willy Brandt

The exhibition on the ground floor encompasses chronological and spatial sections in the life of Willy Brandt.

One room shows Brandt's youth and childhood in Lübeck. Resistance, flight in the cutter and exile follow. As a reporter at the Nuremberg court-martial and afterwards he recognized the difficulties for a new beginning in Germany.

The time as Governing Mayor of Berlin includes the Berlin ultimatum , the building of the wall , Kennedy visit and the politics of small steps . As Foreign Minister and Federal Chancellor, he mainly drives Germany and Ostpolitik and the new European unification. A smaller showroom shows election campaign posters.

Another larger room of the exhibition is dedicated to Willy Brandt's “Global Commitment” in solving the north-south disparities, promoting peace, freedom and the implementation of human rights.

In the entrance area there is a colored sculpture in a niche, the larger-than-life original of which can be seen in the SPD party headquarters, the Willy Brandt House in Berlin. The work of the sculptor Rainer Fetting is on loan from a Lübeck art dealer and his wife. The inner courtyard of the elongated building exhibits a piece of the Berlin Wall, as well as photos from Willy Brandt's private life.

The back of the building provides access to the Günter Grass House on Glockengießerstraße . The future connection of the garden with the community gardens is under discussion.

In addition to its function as a museum and memorial, the Willy-Brandt-Haus Lübeck is a place for political education for all age groups, there are lectures by contemporary witnesses, panel discussions and guided tours suitable for children. Since 2012, students have been trained to become young museum guides as part of the “Jugend ins Museum” project run by the Lübeck Michael Haukohl Foundation.

literature

  • Willy Brandt House Lübeck (Ed.): Willy Brandt. Political life in the 20th century. Permanent exhibition at the Willy Brandt House in Lübeck. (Exhibition brochure from approx. 2009)
  • Julia Hornig: Conveying contemporary historical topics in exhibitions: Use of multimedia learning environments in the Willy Brandt House in Lübeck. In: Michele Barricelli, Julia Hornig (Eds.): Enlightenment, Education, “Histotainment”? Contemporary history in teaching and society today. Lang, Frankfurt Berlin Bern a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-56535-3 , pp. 97-108; limited preview in Google Book search

Web links

Commons : Willy-Brandt-Haus Lübeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josephine von Zastrow: The Willy Brandt Gala - A feast day for Lübeck . In: Lübecker Nachrichten , December 19, 2007, p. 1
  2. ↑ Klaus Irler: The found son. In: taz , December 17, 2007
  3. ↑ Peter Intelmann: We miss someone like him today . In: Lübecker Nachrichten , December 19, 2007, p. 2
  4. ↑ Peter Intelmann: The new boss at Willy Brandt. In: Lübecker Nachrichten , March 8, 2018, SI
  5. ↑ New head of the Willy Brandt House Lübeck , press release by the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation , January 24, 2018
  6. ↑ Heike Krösche: Willy Brandt - A political life in the 20th century . Permanent exhibition Willy-Brandt-Haus Lübeck , H-Soz-u-Kult , November 15, 2008
  7. ↑ Bernd Hüttner: Willy-Brandt-Haus Lübeck (exhibition review) , Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung , December 30, 2013
  8. ↑ jvz: Welcome to Königstraße 21 - admission is always free , Lübecker Nachrichten, December 19, 2007, p. 3
  9. ↑ Christoph Dieckmann: Brandt in Lübeck: His first home , Die Zeit Geschichte No. 4/2013
  10. ↑ Meeting place in Lübeck in the spirit of Brandt , Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , December 14, 2013
  11. ↑ Free public tours in the Willy-Brandt-Haus , HL-live.de, January 6, 2014
  12. ↑ Hanna Grimm, Sharon Welzel: Students in the Museum: Bock auf Brandt , N-Joy , December 10, 2013

Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 11 "  N , 10 ° 41 ′ 21.9"  E