The Meppen-based association Förderunion für Kunst und Kultur e.V. will be a guest at the Stadtmuseum on April 12 with the eighth edition of its talk format "Butter bei die Fische". Local players talk to national guests about topics that focus in particular on life in rural areas. A radio play sets the mood for [...]
Today, it is push-up bras or jeans that pad out the buttocks, starvation diets, a veritable fitness craze and even cosmetic surgery that women in particular take on or endure in order to conform to the beauty ideal, indeed the beauty craze of the time. In earlier centuries, women - and not only women - [...]
The Jewish cemetery in the street "An der Hütte" is the oldest and only surviving evidence of Jewish life in Meppen. The first Jews settled in the town of Meppen around 1700. They acquired an elongated plot of land east of the town near the Hasen to bury their dead here according to Jewish rites. [...]
The town museum and the Meppen local history association cordially invite you to a cozy literary evening with old and new local history poems in the Biedermeier room in the Arenbergische Rentei. In the impressive historical ambience of a Meppen bourgeois parlor from around 1900, the guests first fortify themselves with chicory coffee and buckwheat [...]
Hans Ohlms was one of the most influential artists in the region in the 1960s. He created landscape paintings, portraits, commercial graphics and caricatures, as well as sculptural works and public art. In Meppen, he designed the windows of the Gustav Adolf Church, among other things. From the end of the 1930s onwards, he created [...]
Lecture evening on excavations in the Kalkrieser-Niewedder depression, finds and their interpretation Was it in the Osnabrück region, the legendary last battle of Publius Quinctillius Varus, or was it at one of the other more than 700 places where the slaughter is believed to have taken place? The fact is that the Cheruscan prince [...]
Helga Baltabol was born in Riga in 1913, but had to flee from Lithuania to Upper Silesia in 1918 after the October Revolution, where she found a new home. She attended the State Academy of Arts and Crafts in Dresden and then worked as a freelance graphic designer. After the Second World War, she first [...]
The 15 so-called "Emsland camps" existed from 1933 to 1945. In total around 80,000 concentration camp prisoners and more than 100,000 prisoners of war were interned here and suffered the cruellest treatment. Hunger, deprivation, inhumane living conditions and forced labor shaped the daily lives of the prisoners. In the midst of terror and suffering, however, [...]
The "Song of the Moor Soldiers" in the past and present It is not a new, but always irritating observation that German fascism promoted the emergence of an impressive song culture directed against it. Or to put it another way: If the persecutions, the terror, the crimes of the Nazis had not existed, this part [...]
From decoration to documentation, from hellscape to paradise, from idyll to stormy landscape, from illusion to reality, from mythical worlds to reality, with influences from Italy to England. In the development of landscape painting, there is a complicated succession and juxtaposition, but also some striking milestones. Through a historical journey from antiquity to the present [...]
Lecture with Clémence Rousset, scientific volunteer at the Emsland Archaeology Museum Clémence Rousset wrote her final thesis on the social structure of beggars in ancient Greece. Clémence Rousset studied at the Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (Université PSL for short), one of the most prestigious universities in France, and graduated with a Master's degree in [...]
Lecture with Christina Peek, researcher in the textile archaeology department of the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research There were and are three "hotspots" in Emsland district archaeology, namely settlement relics in Geeste, Walchum and Haren. In recent years, excavations have been carried out there during the expansion of building areas. The results in [...]
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Kulturnetzwerk Koppelschleuse Meppen
Helter Damm 1
DE 49716 Meppen
Tel.: 05931 7575
info@koppelschleuse-meppen.de
www.koppelschleuse-meppen.de
© Copyright 2025 | Cultural Network Koppelschleuse Meppen
