We cordially invite you to immerse yourself with us in the exciting founding period of the Volkshochschule Schwerin
On May 27, 1946, under the direction of Ehm Welk, the Volkshochschule in Schwerin resumed its program operations - a milestone in the cultural awakening after the Second World War. In this 90-minute lecture, we will shed light on the background, founding steps and institutional challenges of this popular education initiative, which is still having a positive impact 80 years later.
A central topic will be the literary and cultural conflict that broke out in the city shortly afterwards: the so-called "Adam Scharrer-Welk dispute". Scharrer, the well-known working-class writer and active in Schwerin after the end of the war, got into an argument with Welk in 1947/48 about the relationship between "bourgeois" literature and new socialist realism. Scharrer suffered a heart attack during a panel discussion in the context of the Kulturbund zur demokratischen Erneuerung Deutschlands - a dramatic end to this debate.
The lecture is aimed at anyone interested in the history of adult education, literary and cultural history and the political and social upheavals of the post-war period.
We cordially invite you to immerse yourself with us in the exciting founding period of the Volkshochschule Schwerin - a look at the history of development, education and debate in an extraordinary year 1946.
