Workshop : "Design possibilities for the presentation of the foundation remains of prisoner barracks 4 on the grounds of the former Laagberg subcamp".

What distinguishes Wolfsburg's places of remembrance in their design and where do their problems lie in terms of accessibility? With these questions, the two exhibition designers Phillip Schwerdtfeger and Johannes Vogt opened the 6th workshop in the conceptual design process for the planned memorial and learning site on the Laagberg on April 25, 2018 in the rooms of the Wolfsburg Institute for Contemporary History and Urban Presentation. While the "difficult exhibit" in the form of the foundation remains was already often a central component of the discussions, the second part of the workshop opened up new perspectives with regard to a possible staging of the same.

Teachers' Workshop "The Importance of Structural Remains in Memorial Sites".

On February 15, 2018, a workshop especially for teachers took place in the rooms of the Institute for Contemporary History and Urban Presentation (IZS) in Wolfsburg. At this workshop, the concept of the concentration camp memorial as an experiential space was discussed and, closely related to this, the question of how to work pedagogically on the site of the former concentration camp on the Laagberg. For this purpose, the IZS had invited Dr. Christian Mehr, who in his research has dealt with the structural remains of concentration camp memorials and their function as extracurricular places of learning.

On Friday, December 8, 2017, the third workshop on the topic of the envisaged memorial and educational site of the Laagberg subcamp took place in the lecture halls of the Alvar Aalto House of Culture in downtown Wolfsburg, which was realized by the Institute for Contemporary History and City Presentation as part of the citizen participation process. The main focus was on concept ideas that were developed in cooperation with Aleksandar Nedelkovski, the head of the local history workshop, by students from local schools and trainees from the city and Volkswagenwerk over the past weeks.

Concept "Memorial and Educational Site of the Laagberg Subcamp": Thematic Workshop 2: "Memorial Education, Concepts of Mediation and the Question of Authenticity of Former Concentration Camp Sites".

The "authentic place" or the "authentic" - on November 10, 2017, in the course of developing a concept for the future learning and memorial site on the grounds of the former concentration camp on the Laagberg, a thematic workshop on this topic took place on the premises of Wolfsburg's Goethe School. Since the concept of the authentic already advanced to a kind of "fighting term" in April 2017 and thus at the beginning of the discussions about the further handling of the barrack remains on the Laagberg, the first two lectures were about a scientific classification. Then, the "denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof" was presented as an example of a current realization of a memorial site, before the figure of the museualized contemporary witness was placed in the center.

As part of the conceptual development of the Laagberg Concentration Camp Subcamp Memorial and Educational Site, the Institute for Contemporary History and Urban Presentation of the City of Wolfsburg (IZS) is organizing a series of thematic workshops in order to outline the design and content framework of the site to be created in more detail with the broad participation of committed citizens and representatives of victims' and interest groups as well as political bodies. On October 20, 2017, the first step was therefore to "open our eyes" and get an overview of recent developments in Lower Saxony's memorial landscape.

Report on the information event on August 14, 2017

In spring 2017, in the course of construction work on the Laagberg, foundations of the former prisoner barracks 4 of the Laagberg subcamp were uncovered near Breslauerstraße. An intensive discussion arose in the city about how to deal with these stone testimonies of Nazi tyranny, which was also noticed and commented on beyond the region. How should those parts of the foundations be treated or dealt with?