Ruinenschleicher und Schachterleis: München nach 1945

In the organizer's words:

On April 30, 1945, the US Army reached Munich, which lay in ruins. The war was over, the Nazi state had collapsed, destruction everywhere! A zero hour?

How did children and young people experience this time? What determined their everyday lives? With what feelings, hopes and dreams did they experience the incipient economic miracle and the young democracy? And how did they deal with the shadows of the past?

36 women and men talk about their childhood and youth: about survival, deprivation and beatings, about strict rules at home and great freedom outside.

The film paints a portrait of the post-war generation and this formative era in the city in a mixture of interviews, photos and historical film footage from 1945 to 1960.

Filmmaker Michael von Ferrari and contemporary witness Michael Hutter will speak afterwards.

Price information:

Registration in person on site, by telephone on 089 233 728700 or by e-mail to stb.riem.kult@muenchen.de