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First harbingers of the Landsberg "Liberation Concert"

2023-04-03T16:03:32.245Z


Landsberg - Too important to store them - or even to forget: "'undesirable' 1938 - fateful year of the Landsberg Jews" can be seen again in the town hall foyer since the weekend. The exhibition, curated by Volker Gold, Wolfgang Schönfeld and Franz Xaver Rößle, announces the festival week for the "Liberation Concert" in May.


Landsberg - Too important to store them - or even to forget: "'undesirable' 1938 - fateful year of the Landsberg Jews" can be seen again in the town hall foyer since the weekend.

The exhibition, curated by Volker Gold, Wolfgang Schönfeld and Franz Xaver Rößle, announces the festival week for the "Liberation Concert" in May.

It is the fate of Jewish Landsbergers such as the Willstätter boys, the Simon siblings in the Bergstrasse or the merchant family Max Westheimer that can be seen on extensively inscribed panels at the resumption of the exhibition under the sponsorship of the Landsberg Historical Association until April 25th .

"Lots to read!" That's what Rößle says at the vernissage.

He still remembers when Henry and Jerry Westheimer visited Landsberg.

And the fact that the two of them drank coffee with the Brand family, who 'bought' their business from the Westheimers at the time.

They had spoken out, the Westheimers reported to him.

And "We're at peace with each other."


One of the aims of the project “Liberation Concert – Here we are, Landsberg!”, which Karla Schönebeck initiated as chairwoman of the sponsoring association of the same name together with 'co-director' Alex Dorow, is to ensure that National Socialism does not become “solidified history”.

"And it's supposed to be a youth project," says Schönebeck at the vernissage, "but that takes time." Nevertheless, young people are already on board.

For example, the 16-year-old Fynn Jimenez, who will be a member of the youth symphony orchestra of the Landsberg Music School at the Liberation Concert - and will act as an advocate for a contemporary witness: for the 17-year-old violinist Chaim Arbeitman.

"We're starting to work out the roles now," says Fynn, who also plays in the Stadttheater's young stage.

"The audience gets a glimpse of the character,

about her life and the concrete effects of National Socialism on this one person.” Playing the violin connects him with Arbeiterman.

And he would also like to be as successful as David Arben, who became concertmaster of the Philadelphia Philharmonic in America.

“I can identify with him through the music.

But of course not with the life of Arbeiterman.

"But I find it admirable that he continued to play the violin despite everything."


Liberation Concert

The festival week "Liberation Concert - Here we are Landsberg!" on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's concert with the DP Orchestra and also the 75th anniversary of the State of Israel runs from May 11th to May 14th.

There is a music workshop with the Israeli pianist Guy Mintus - "Anyone can take part, whether they play an instrument or not," says music school director Birgit Abe, who will be present with her youth symphony orchestra at the anniversary concert on May 14th.

There is an insta walk.

And also the "Landsberg Dialogues", during which Heinrich Himmler's great-niece Katrin Himmler will speak with the American historian Prof. Abraham Peck, who was born in the Landsberg DP camp in 1946, on May 11.


"It's about preserving knowledge about history, interactively, interreligiously and interculturally," says Dorow at the vernissage.

Democracy is the highest good, "and we currently have to defend it again on the fringes of society".

In his opinion, the fact that this is the case is due to "a lack of knowledge and a lack of access to this knowledge." The exhibition in the foyer of the town hall shows what happens if you don't fight anti-democracy in good time.


In addition to the festival week, an extensive and 'knowledge-rich' magazine has been published, with information on the DP camp in Landsberg and the people who lived there at the time or on the Bernstein concert in 1948. But also with a lot of current affairs, statements by the Israeli Consul General, for example anti-Semitism commissioner Dr.

Ludwig Spaenle.

In addition, interviews with Mayor Doris Baumgartl, museum director Sonia Schätz, the historian Peck and the pharmacologist Christoph Höck about "the effect of music between the brain and heart".

Above all, the magazine introduces those involved in the Liberation Concert project.

It is available from the tourist information office, in the municipal theater office, from Vivell on the main square and after the Easter holidays also from the music school.

You can read information about last year's Liberation Concert here and here.

Information on the exhibition "Liberation Concert - Here we are, Landsberg", which will open on April 28 in the town hall foyer, is available here.

Source: merkur

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