Foto des Südmährerhofs: Sascha Windholz
The project includes the redesign of an exhibition at the Südmährerhof.
Funding
Südmährer Kulturstiftung, 1030 Wien
Duration
February 2019 – June 2020
Principal Investigators
Sascha Windholz
Researchers
Sascha Windholz
Description
In 1981, the reconstruction of a farm from Neudeck/Nejdek from the former German-speaking part of South Moravia began on the grounds of the Weinviertel Museum Village in Niedersulz. It was opened in 1982, redesigned and expanded in 1992 and 2013, and today presents itself as a central exhibition site for the German-speaking South Moravians who were expelled and forcibly resettled from what was then Czechoslovakia in 1945/1946.
In the course of a new exhibition commissioned by the South Moravian Cultural Foundation, the so-called "Expulsion Room", in which the history of the South Moravians in Czechoslovakia and in the German Reich as well as their forced departure from their former homeland in 1945/46 is presented, is also being redesigned by Niklas Perzi and Sascha Windholz. For the new conception of the exhibition, Niklas Perzi and Sascha Windholz drew on the successful exhibition project "Langsam ist es besser geworden. Expellees tell of having to leave, arriving and staying". This exhibition toured in Austria and the Czech Republic in the years 2013-2018 in 23 stations, including St. Pölten, Brno/Brünn and Praha/Prague. In addition, further research in archives and museums in Austria and the Czech Republic will be carried out in the course of this project in order to be able to present aspects of the history of this region that have received little attention to date.
The project began in February 2019 at the Center for Migration Research and has been running at the IGLR since January 2020.