U Njema\u010dkom povijesnom muzeju u Berlinu odr\u017eava se od 9. prosinca 2022. do 24. studenog 2024. izlo\u017eba o mogu\u0107im druga\u010dijim ishodima prijelomnih doga\u0111aja njema\u010dke povijesti 19. i 20. stolje\u0107a. Cilj izlo\u017ebe nije me\u0111utim ponuditi alternativnu ili kontrafakti\u010dnu povijest ve\u0107 osvijestiti stvarne realitete, nepredvidljive kontingencije i potencijalne mogu\u0107nosti koje su tada bile na dnevnom redu. Tako primjerice u odre\u0111enom povijesnom trenutku nije bio izbor izme\u0111u demokracije i diktature nego izme\u0111u diktature i diktature. Ideju i koncept izlo\u017ebe osmislio je povjesni\u010dar Dan Diner (na hrvatski je 2013. prevedena njegova knjiga \u201eRazumjeti stolje\u0107e\u201c).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An exhibition of the Deutsches Historisches Museum in cooperation with the Alfred Landecker Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n
9. December 2022 – 24. November 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Starting from key dates in German history, the museum presents a look back(wards) at decisive historical events of the 19th and 20th centuries. It brings actual turning points face to face with what might have happened if it were not for various factors. Along 14 distinctive caesurae in the German history the probabilities of unrealised history \u2013 prevented by accidents, averted by misfires or other kinds of shortcomings \u2013 are explored: it is that which is known in the philosophy of history as contingency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The course of these caesurae begins in 1989 with the Peaceful Revolution in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and ends in the year 1848, when Germany first tried to attempt a democratic awakening. The exhibition takes up retrospectively such topics as \u201cOstpolitik\u201d, the building of the Wall, the Cold War, the assumption of power by the National Socialists, as well as revolution and democratisation at decisive points \u2013 and illustrates that history by no means had to end as it actually happened. In this way, milestones such as the Stalin Note of 1952, the Korean War in combination with the Berlin Airlift of 1948\/49, the failed blasting of the bridge at Remagen in 1945, the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler in 1945, the deposal of Chancellor Br\u00fcning in 1932, the revolution of 1918, the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, or the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, appear in a new light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This perspective, unusual for a history museum, should make it possible to see well-known facts in a new light and to encourage an understanding of the principal open-endedness of history as a result of constellations and decisions, actions and omissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n