“We ran for our lives with a kettle and a shopping bag,” said Wally Greubel, remembering March 16, 1945 in Wrzburg. Her impressive words are currently appearing on posters throughout the city, also to draw attention to the events surrounding the 76th anniversary of the devastating bomb attack on the city. As the city of Wrzburg reports, despite the pandemic, a large number of initiatives and actors coordinated by the Department of Culture of the city of Wrzburg succeeded in designing a program with great creativity and inventiveness. Depending on the infection situation, analog event formats and church services, as well as new formats in virtual and digital form, are planned. Here is an overview.
The series of events begins three days in advance
The series of events has already started on March 13 at 4 p.m. with a city tour with Markus Schfer under the title “Bunker, Bombs, Flchenbrand – Wrzburg and March 16, 1945” from the train station via the Pleich to the old crane. Place / meeting point: Kiliansbrunnen at the station forecourt; Cost: 10 euros, website: https://www.vhs-wuerzburg.info
March 14th is at 10 a.m. a memorial service planned for March 16 in the Evangelical Lutheran St. Johannis parish together with the cumenical cross of nails initiative Wrzburg.
March 15th at 6 p.m. Roland Flade will give an online reading as part of the Main Post Academy, which will deal with eyewitness reports who witnessed the devastating bomb attack of March 16, 1945. Short video sequences accompany the reading. Registration and information: Main-Post Akademie, Tel. (0931) 6001 6009 or www.akademie.mainpost.de; Cost: 15 Euro
Also on March 15th at 7pm the author Sonja Weichand will read from her debtr novel “guilt consciousness”, which thematizes images of women in the Nazi era and whose story takes place in Wrzburg. Registration by March 11 and information: Akademie Frankenwarte, Tel. (0931) 80464-30 or by email: [email protected] under seminar number 1101
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On March 16, the commemoration of the dead will be quietly celebrated at the memorial on March 16, 1945
By 10 o’clock “The literary city tour” by Sonja Weichand to the venues of her novel “guilt consciousness” is planned.
At 16 o’clock the cumenical atonement prayer of the Cross of Nails Center Wrzburg and the Ackermann parish takes place in the Marienkapelle.
At 5:30 p.m. Willi Drrnagel gives a lecture on “Commemoration of March 16, 1945”. Website: https://www.generationen-zentrum.com/programm/erwachsenenbildung#inhalt
Also from 5.30 p.m. The cultural department of the city of Wrzburg presents the newly published book “Remembering as a polyphonic talk of the town” on the city’s YouTube channel. This is followed by a panel discussion, also digitally transmitted, under the title “Lively Remembrance – Living Democracy – Perspectives for the Wrzburg Culture of Remembrance”. Podium guests are Dr. Bettina Ke, Professor Jrg Skriebeleit, Dr. Ludwig Unger and cultural advisor Achim Knneke. Link from March 16, 5:30 p.m. Via the Youtube channel of the city of Wrzburg.
At 7 p.m. A “Night of Peace Lights” will take place in the hall of the Kolping Center Mainfranken with text and meditation and at the end with the silent participation of the bell ringing on the roof terrace of the Kolping Center in memory of the bombing of March 16, 1945.
At 7.45 p.m. the traditional memorial concert takes place virtually on the Internet. Works by Matthias Weckmann and Heinrich Schtz will be performed from St. Stephan. The broadcast is carried out by Bavarian TV in a livestream via BR 24 and Facebook: www.facebook.com/BRFranken/
It continues after March 16
On March 18 at 6 p.m. Prof. Matthias Stickler (University of Wrzburg, Institute of History, Chair of Modern History) will give a lecture in St. Johannis entitled “Air War. Historical Notes on Unlimited Violence in World War II”. The lecture will be adapted to the corona conditions and held as a present / online lecture. Please inform yourself in the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Office St. Johannis Wrzburg, Tel. (0931) 322846. A special feature and innovation this year is the virtual exhibition “Chronology of the destruction of Wrzburg in World War II” by the Wrzburg history workshop. This year it can be found on the Internet at www.wuerzburg.de/16maerz be considered.
The path of reconciliation of the kumenical cross of nails initiative Wrzburg, which is looking at its 20th anniversary this year, is taking place in virtual space this year due to the pandemic situation. The stations, which this year lead from the March 16 memorial at the main cemetery, St. Stephen’s Church, the cathedral and the town hall to the Marienkapelle, will be found on the Internet with text and images at the same address.
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