Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Sein Leben. Sein Werk. Und seine Beziehung zu Wuppertal
In the organizer's words:
On display in the foyer of the library until November 29, 2025 (extended!) is a poster exhibition by the Protestant Press Association of Bavaria about the Protestant theologian, who is considered one of the most important representatives of Christian resistance under National Socialism and was murdered by the SS in the Flossenbürg concentration camp on April 9, 1945 at the age of just 39 and after months in prison. The exhibition provides information about Bonhoeffer's life and work and contains numerous quotes, photographs and texts. In addition to 17 posters, the exhibition offers multimedia access: users can call up further information on the Internet via QR codes - including audio and video documents.
Bonhoeffer and his relationship with Wuppertal
Much has been researched and published about Bonhoeffer's life and work. He is connected to Wuppertal in many ways. For example, Bonhoeffer was one of the most prominent representatives of the Confessing Church, which publicly expressed its protest against the National Socialists' policy of social conformity in 1934 with the Barmen Theological Declaration. Bonhoeffer was to play a leading role in the reopening of the KiHo Wuppertal. As early as June 1945, the university's board of trustees agreed to recruit Bonhoeffer as a lecturer - not yet knowing that the theologian had been hanged a few weeks earlier in the Flossenbürg concentration camp for his involvement in plans to overthrow Hitler. Today, what is probably the world's largest memorial to Bonhoeffer stands in Wuppertal. In 2005, it was installed on the Hardt next to the grounds of the prison school - together with a memorial to Josef Neuberger, the former NRW Minister of Justice. The Neuberger stele now stands in Ronsdorf on the grounds of the prison. The Bonhoeffer stele was placed on the forecourt of the alternative site for the Johannes-Rau-Gymnasium a few weeks ago. These relationships of Bonhoeffer are shown on further posters in the exhibition.
Book exhibition
In addition to the poster exhibition, the HLB Wuppertal is also showing a book exhibition on selected aspects of Bonhoeffer's reception and impact history.
The University and State Church Library Wuppertal has an extensive collection of primary and secondary literature by, about and on Dietrich Bonhoeffer. For example, if you enter the search term "Bonhoeffer" in the catalog, you will receive more than 600 hits and an author search for "Dietrich Bonhoeffer" results in almost 200 hits. And then there is the periodical literature, which is not listed in the catalog, but is indeed in our holdings.
In the accompanying book exhibition, we will show you various aspects of the history of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's reception and impact from this collection. Most of the "exhibits" are themselves testimonies to a very extensive and diverse, but sometimes contradictory and even questionable reception.
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