March storms on the burning Ruhr 1920-1922

In most history books, the events only appear as a footnote, but in 1920, the people here in the Ruhr region saved our then still young republic from the military coup under Kapp-Lüttwitz. At the risk of their lives, they saved democracy with great civil courage. Today, all this has been forgotten, suppressed or distorted by the National Socialists. We bring fates and stories from the period August 1914 to April 1920 to life on stage, because even today, although 100 years have passed in between, our society is once again caught in the same field of tension: back then between democratic equality for all people against nationalist militarism, today between peaceful commitment to human rights against the new extreme and violent nationalists who are populistically pushing their way into the centre of our society. – Admission: Pay what you can or want to.

Sponsored by: BUXUS STIFTUNG and the Ministry for Regional Identity, Communities and Local Government, Building and Gender Equality of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

„The wild 1920s on the Ruhr. A piece of Ruhr area history“(WAZ article)

School presentations

The school performances will take place from 26 to 29 October 2020, 10.00 a.m.