A villa with a chequered past
"Die Villa_" sees itself as a space for debate, a place where ideas are generated on how democracy can be strengthened. The starting point is a newly designed, critical permanent exhibition about the National Socialist era and the life and work of Osnabrück lawyer Hans Georg Calmeyer. He saved Jews during National Socialism, but at the same time was complicit in the Nazi terror. This ambivalence gives the "Villa_" its thematic orientation. The villa on Heger Tor Wall was originally the middle-class home of the Schlikker family. From 1932-1945, it housed the Osnabrück headquarters of the NSDAP and thus the regional control centre of the Nazi dictatorship.
In September 2024, a new socio-political place of learning was opened in the Museumsquartier Osnabrück. In future, the causes and consequences of the Nazi era will be analysed here and conclusions drawn for our present and future. Using examples such as Hans Georg Calmeyer from Osnabrück, the events of that time will be illustrated in order to draw lessons for the present and promote a lively culture of remembrance. In this place, debates are to be conducted critically, opinions exchanged and, at the end of a democratic process, results formulated that all social groups can support together.
The Café Felka on the ground floor of the villa is run by the association EXIL e.V.
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