Fritz Bauer – Die Prozesse
- Location:
- StadtPalais - Museum für Stuttgart, Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 2, 70173 Stuttgart
- Date
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Far too few people in Stuttgart know that the Jewish lawyer Fritz Bauer is a son of the city of Stuttgart and the exhibition "Fritz Bauer - The Trials" aims to change this.
The exhibition is a hybrid of a classic exhibition and a learning space and is aimed at both individual visitors and groups of young people. Special workshops are offered for the latter, in which they can interactively engage with Fritz Bauer and the exhibition.
Between March 10 and 26, 2025, the workshop offer will be supplemented by the escape room "Fixing the Boat - Finding identity" by the Service Center for Anti-Discrimination Work, Advice on Racism and Anti-Semitism, which can be booked by school classes and private groups of up to six people at the same time in the StadtPalais.
In cooperation with the Jewish Religious Community of Württemberg and the State Government Commissioner against Anti-Semitism, curator Zino Preis not only looks at Bauer's significant contribution to coming to terms with the crimes of the Holocaust in the post-war period of the Federal Republic of Germany, but above all at Fritz Bauer's comparatively unknown work as a district judge in Stuttgart in the 1920s. Bauer was also involved in the Stuttgart SPD and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold and had a close relationship with Kurt Schumacher in particular.
Already a passionate fighter for democracy and freedom in the Weimar Republic, Bauer became the focus of the growing National Socialists in the early 1930s and defended himself in court against right-wing slander. In addition to the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, this trial against the editor-in-chief of the Stuttgart "NS-Kurier" - Adolf Gerlach - is also at the heart of the exhibition and gives it its name.
In terms of design, the renowned Stuttgart set designer Katharina Schlipf places the Frankfurt hall of the Auschwitz trials at the center of the exhibition, which she explains abstractly and figuratively at the same time with the help of the medium of photography as an exhibition space.