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A cooperation between the Fritz Bauer Forum and the Bochum Peace Plenum
With the beginning of the Second World War on 1 September 1939 and the German attack on Poland, the Anti-War Day in the Federal Republic of Germany was given an important date. It was established on 1 September 1957 by the German Trade Union Confederation under the motto “Never again war”. Against the backdrop of the introduction of compulsory military service in 1956, demonstrators gathered to protest against it.
This year marks an anniversary for the peace movement in Bochum: the “Artists for Peace” initiative, which was launched in 1981, supported the peace movement in Germany with four concerts. The largest of the four concerts took place one year later, on 11 September 1982, in Bochum’s Ruhrstadion. The poster for the Bochum event was designed by the artist Hundertwasser and introduces the tour through the digital exhibition. Among the artists who performed at the event were well-known names such as Udo Lindenberg, Katja Ebstein and Holocaust survivor Esther Bejarano, who performed together with her daughter Edna Bejarano. Esther Bejarano, who played the accordion in the girls’ orchestra at Auschwitz, has been speaking out tirelessly against forgetting since the 1960s and appeals for everyone to do their bit to ensure that war and terror can never happen again.
The posters in this digital exhibition are part of the collection that the Fritz Bauer Archive took over from the “Political Archive Bochum” in April 2022. The collection mainly contains magazines, newspapers and flyers from the social movement, but also an extensive collection of posters. The holdings extend from the 1960s to the present day.
The exhibition focuses on posters from local as well as nationwide initiatives and groups. There are posters for recurring demonstrations, the 8 May demonstration or the Easter march, as well as cultural events, general and more specific events and campaigns.
You can find the exhibition here .
60 years of Nato. A reason to celebrate? , 2009 © Friedensplenum
Against Fascism. Against war , 2010 © VVN-BdA Düsseldorf
International law instead of bombs. No blood for oil! , 2003 © Friedensplenum
Anti-War Night, 1989 © AdsD/FES (Archive of Social Democracy/Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Signature: 6/PLKA010149); Eva Dillkoetter
Call to refuse all service in the war , before 2011 © Friedensplenum
“German militarism – centre of war and mortal enemy of the peoples”, 2010 © Literaturvertrieb Dimitroff
Stop the war , unknown. © Friedensplenum
I like to die for cheap oil , unknown © Graswuzelwerkstatt
Artists for peace , 1982 © 2022 NAMIDA AG, Glarus/Switzerland.
The Kaiser did it, Hitler did it, the Chancellor does it , unknown. © FAU
No attack on Iraq. No war , 2003 © Friedensplenum
Fight War, Not Wars. Destroy Power, Not People, unknown © Friedensplenum
No weapons to Turkey , ca. 1992 © Friedensplenum
Breaking the spiral of violence , 2001 © Friedensplenum
War. Power. Escape. Ohn.Macht durchbrechen! , 2017 © War starts here camp
Easter March Ruhr’90 from Duisburg to Dortmund , 1990 © Friedensplenum
We show our colours… , ca. 1999 © Friedensplenum
No to war , unknown. © Friedensplenum
War begins here X As an arms deal in Hamburg , unknown © Friedensplenum
Stop the NATO war intervention in Yugoslavia! , ca. 1999 © Friedensplenum
No war taxes , before 1993 © Friedensplenum
And again and again? , unknown © DFG-VK Hessen
Soldiers are murderers , 1989 © Ralf Cüppers (DFG-VK Flensburg); Hanno Rink
What are we throwing today? , unknown © Friedensplenum
City map for militarists, unknown © Friedensplenum
http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/themen/Antikriegstag/Welcome.html
https://evamattes.com/liederabende/kuenstler-fuer-den-frieden/
Esther Bejarano. Memories. From the girls’ orchestra in Auschwitz to the rap band against the right . Edited by Antonella Romeo. Münster: LAIKA-Verlag, 2019.
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