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Vernissage of the exhibition: "Hirschhagen. Forgotten Memories"
On Thursday, February 14, at 6:30 p.m., there will be a vernissage of the exhibition "Hirschhagen. Forgotten Memories" will take place at KAZ in KUBA. The two-week exhibition will be opened by Nora Sternfeld (documenta professor) and the students of the project.
In what is now Hirschhagen, a town south-east of Kassel, the Hessisch Lichtenau explosives factory began operations in 1938 in the middle of the Kaufunger Forest under the code name Friedland. Until March 1945, thousands of Nazi forced laborers were forced to produce TNT and picric acid here; many died as a result of the inhumane living conditions and explosives accidents. Even today, 70 years after the Nazi tyranny, there are still traces and relics of this period and the way in which the site and objects of this time are dealt with is unclear.
In the winter semester of 2017/18, students from Faculty 6 of the University of Kassel worked on a project on the complex site, the architectural traces and the topic of the landscape architectural design of memorial sites. The results of the project are now being presented in an exhibition and put up for discussion.