In the late summer of 1945, Theo van Alst and Hanns Dieter Hüsch gathered a group of young people around them who met regularly to discuss "God and the world, Nazis and democracy, art and philosophy". The "Club" gave rise to "Studio 45", a "loose association of all the black sheep of Moers". They performed theater, organized poetry evenings and made music.
12 years of dictatorship and six years of war had fed the desire for "different" culture. However, the majority of people in Moers were suspicious of the "club", something for "anarchists and bohemians".
The "black sheep" of "Studio 45" became formative figures in the post-war German cultural scene: director Theo van Alst, theater director Ernst Seiltgen, his wife, the opera singer Emmy Lisken, the writer Edith Biewend and her husband Hannes, the writer Jürgen Dahl, the illustrator Hans-Georg Lenzen, Fritz and Gerd Lisken ...
80 years after the liberation of Germany from National Socialism and on the 100th birthday of Hanns Dieter Hüsch, the exhibition explores the "cultural freedom movement" and the lives of its protagonists, who are exemplary of the new cultural beginning in North Rhine-Westphalia after 1945.
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Price information:
Adults 3 Euro/ Families 4,50 Euro/ Children from 6 years 1 Euro