In the organizer's words:

Breaking the cascade of forgetting. An evening of remembrance with Ulrich Chaussy and Sebastian Wehrhahn:

Venue: Room 366

On September 26, 1980, 45 years ago, the Oktoberfest attack shook Munich. After two years, an apolitical lone perpetrator was presented who had allegedly committed suicide with a bomb he had built himself. In 1982, the investigation was closed after only two years. The 213 physically and emotionally injured people and the families of the twelve victims who were killed were left alone with their suffering. After 32 years of standstill and oblivion, the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office resumed the investigation and this time conducted it for five years. Now the attack by the bomber Gundolf Köhler is officially considered a terrorist attack by a right-wing extremist. No accomplices or accomplices from the scene could be identified.
At the same time as the second investigation was closed, a new memorial was opened at the Theresienwiese on the 40th anniversary. It not only focuses on the crime, the perpetrators and the investigators, but also takes a detailed look at the fates of the victims.

Ulrich Chaussy has been dealing with the Oktoberfest attack for over 40 years - in radio broadcasts, television documentaries, a feature film and now five books that have been repeatedly revised. In the recently published edition, he looks at the second investigation, which was rather quietly closed five years ago. He looks at them in the context of the first investigation and the 32 years of oblivion that passed before the investigation was finally resumed. What impact did the disaster of the first investigation have on the situation of the victims, on the silence of the city's society - and not least on the meagre results of the second investigation? - Why have the connections between the Munich attack and the anti-Semitic assassination attempt on the rabbi and publisher Shlomo Lewin and his partner Frida Poeschke in Erlangen still not been clarified? What role did the secret services play in the failure of the investigation?

Ulrich Chaussy and his co-author Sebastian Wehrhahn provide information in conversation with Moritz Kienast (Cultural Department / public history).

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