In the organizer's words:

With the exhibition "Stuttgart Hatırası", the StadtPalais opens up a space for personal stories, photos and voices of Turkish immigrant families. The exhibition shows how closely family biographies and city history are interwoven and how much both have changed over the past decades.

"Hatıra" means memory. And it is precisely these memories that take center stage: photos taken by Turkish immigrants in well-known places in Stuttgart since the 1960s and 1970s. Young families can be seen in front of the fountains on Schlossplatz, at the Berger Sprudler, on Kleiner Schlossplatz or in the Kurpark in Bad Cannstatt. The pictures tell of the courage and hope with which people have started a new life in a new city. At the same time, they represent the personal stories and feelings behind the photographs.

The exhibition space invites visitors to encounter the voices of different generations up close. Sometimes grandmothers and grandfathers who came to Stuttgart back then tell their stories, sometimes their children and grandchildren talk about today. Some memories remain unspoken because they hurt. As Ahmet puts it: "You don't talk about everything. Some questions simply remain unanswered."

"Stuttgart Hatırası" gives space to these very personal stories and makes visible how formative the lives of German-Turkish families are for the city. Anyone who wants to can even add their own memories.