Press releases

• 10.02.2025

PUBLICATION: On the relaunch of the Fritz Bauer Forum website, 10 February 2025

• 26.11.2024

READING & LECTURE: Songbirds and ravens were no longer there either, 10 December 2024

• 07.11.2024

LECTURE & DISCUSSION: 7 October, the war in the Gaza Strip and prospects for a conflict settlement, 21 November 2024

• 17.09.2024

LECTURE & DISCUSSION: The role of the US election for democracy in Europe, 31 October 2024

• 11.09.2024

BOOK PUBLICATION & PRESENTATION: Ilse’s memories of Colonia Dignidad. With the author Emma Sepúlveda Pulvirenti, 25 September & 15 October 2024

• 23.08.2024

EVENT: Open Memorial Day at the Fritz Bauer Library, 8 September 2024

• 07.06.2024

EVENTS: Human rights and football with the Reporting Office for Discrimination in Football NRW, from 20 June 2024

• 06.06.2024

LECTURE: Between magic and practice – building transcultural gardens with Anuscheh Amir-Khalili, 21 June 2024

• 21.05.2024

BOOK PRESENTATION & TALK: Forgotten Fates. Resistance against the Nazi regime in Dortmund. With the author Dagmar Scholz and the director of the Bergen Gestapo Museum Association Prof. emer. Tor Jan Ropeid, 11 June 2024

• 17.05.2024

LECTURE AND DISCUSSION: Roland Vossebrecker: The uprising of the Jewish Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau, 28 May 2024

• 16.05.2024

LECTURE AND DISCUSSION: Jamie Raskin: The Unthinkable – The Battle for American Democracy, 31 May 2024

• 08.05.2024

RICHTFEST: The last big step before the opening of our Centre for Democracy and Human Rights in Bochum, 24 May 2024

• 02.04.2024

LECTURE AND DISCUSSION: Israeli-Palestinian cooperation in times of war. Using the example of the organisation Standing Together, 10 April 2024

• 28.03.2024

LECTURES, TALKS, PROJECT PRESENTATION: Rwanda 1994: Events on the history, course and consequences of a genocide, 11 to 25 April 2024

• 07.03.2024

LECTURE AND TALK: Ofer Waldman: What do we talk about when we talk about Israel?, 15 March 2024

• 22.02.2024

LECTURE AND DISCUSSION: Israel before and after 7 October – Ayelet Bargur and Dani Engel as guests in Bochum

• 02.02.2024

LECTURE AND DISCUSSION: Rahab Njeri: The invisibility of black women in activism, on 16 February 2024

• 12.01.2024

LECTURE AND DISCUSSION: Max Lucks (MP), Hans-Joachim Heintze and Ingrid Farzin: Nuclear weapons are banned – does that help us?, on 26 January 2024

• 04.01.2024

LECTURE: Moshe Zimmermann: Solidarity and reason of state, on 18 January 2024

• 29.11.2023

LECTURE: Hajo Funke: The chances for a two-state settlement in Israel, on 12 December 2023

• 16.11.2023

LECTURE: Juan Garcés: Prosecutor of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, on 30 November 2023

• 06.11.2023

PANEL DISCUSSION: Current human rights situation in Peru with, among others, Max Lucks MP, on 10 November 2023

• 17.10.2023

BOOK PRESENTATION: In the end, oblivion awaits. A story from Colombia with Héctor Abad Faciolince, on 24 October 2023

• 18.09.2023

LECTURE: Carlos Margotta, President of the Chilean Commission for Human Rights (CCHDH), as a guest in Bochum

• 14.09.2023

BOOK PRESENTATION: Disappeared and murdered. European victims of the secret detention and torture camp El Vesubio in Argentina on 21 September 2023

• 31.08.2023

BOOK PUBLICATION: National Stadium 1973. autobiographical essay by Jorge Montealegre from 10 September 2023

• 24.08.2023

“Memoria Viva – Latin America on the move” a series of events by the Fritz Bauer Forum from 13 September 2023

• 16.08.2023

“Solidarity does not mean silence” event with Moshe Zimmermann on 29 August 2023

• 25.07.2023

Summer party to mark the completion of the Fritz Bauer Library on 11 August 2023