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 [...]
For the ninth time, the Koppelschleuse cultural network is offering a variety of events on the subject of crime fiction with the Meppen Crime Days. With four events at different locations in the city, the audience is offered a diverse program. With Manfred C. Schmidt & Helmut Bengen, Susanne Mischke, Marc Raabe as well as [...]
Reading: Wiet Land unner de Wulken with Gesche Gloystein, Christian Quaing and Jan-Bernd Müller A lyrical encounter between the times, read in High and Low German. Looking back directs our gaze forward. Or: What do homeland poems from the 1950s and 1960s still tell us today? What insights do we draw from this exciting [...]
Reading: "New land for Peter Quast". A staged audio reading of the Emsland youth novel with Stephan W. Müller, Nora Kühnlein and Simone Nowicki Peter is nine years old in the winter of 1944/45 when he has to leave his home farm in Dirschau (now Tczew) with his mother and sister Maria. The new Emsland [...]
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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
