Fatalities caused by right-wing violence in Lower Saxony since 1990. A traveling exhibition by the victim support service, the exit support service and the Mobile Counseling Service Lower Saxony.
Yesterday, the exhibition "Remembering Means Fighting! Between Recognition and Forgetting" opened at the Pavillon cultural center in Hanover.
The exhibition can now be viewed from March 2nd to March 10th at the Pavillon cultural center in Hanover. At least ten people have been murdered in Lower Saxony since 1990 for right-wing motives.
Fatalities due to right-wing violence in Lower Saxony since 1990
A traveling exhibition by the victim support service, the exit support service and the Mobile Counseling Service of Lower Saxony.
The exhibition can be viewed from March 2nd to March 10th at the Pavillon Cultural Center in Hanover. At least ten people have been murdered in Lower Saxony since 1990 for right-wing motives.
Only two of them have been officially recognized as victims of right-wing violence. However different the individual contexts of the crimes were, they are united by the fact that the perpetrators did not choose their victims indiscriminately. Their hatred was not directed equally against all people, but against people they associated with specific groups.
Kolong Jamba's skin was black. Helmut Leja, Gerhard Fischhöder, and Christian Sonnemann were alcoholics, at times homeless, or lived in social housing. Andrea B., a woman, called Hitler's Mein Kampf "shit." Gustav Schneeclaus described Hitler as "a great criminal." Peter Deutschmann told two neo-Nazi skinheads to "stop this skinhead bullshit." Alexander Selchow was a goth and liked to wear black clothes; Matthias Knabe stood out because of his colorful mohawk.
This exhibition commemorates them. In addition to these nine individuals, the lives and circumstances of the deaths of Hans-Peter Zarse and Sighild B. are also remembered.
Against forgetting! For recognition and change! The exhibition consists of three thematic parts. The prologue illuminates the specific characteristics of right-wing violence and its socio-political context, focusing on the 1980s and 90s. Particular emphasis is placed on the differing criteria used by civil society and state authorities for recognizing victims of right-wing violence.
The main part of the exhibition tells the stories of the victims and the circumstances under which they were murdered. Journalistic and anti-fascist research, conversations with relatives, friends, and local initiatives served as sources to reconstruct these specific stories.
For some cases we found a lot of information, for others almost none.
The exhibition's epilogue is dedicated to commemorating all those who have been killed by right-wing violence and whose names are unknown, as well as potential cases in Lower Saxony where there are indications of right-wing motives. Local memorial initiatives and their ongoing work to establish local remembrance and political recognition are portrayed.
The exhibition aims to commemorate the victims and their lives, to shed light on the background of deadly right-wing violence in Lower Saxony, and to depict the work of memorial initiatives.
Furthermore, the organizers of the exhibition are calling for an independent scientific review of the death toll from right-wing violence, similar to the scientific reviews conducted in Brandenburg and Thuringia. The traveling exhibition features 25 informative roll-up banners as well as accompanying audio and video materials. Funding for the project was provided in part by the project partners as part of their public relations efforts, specifically for the financing of counseling services. The exhibition is available for free loan to interested parties.
More information at: erinnern-heisst-kaempfen-nds.de
