Event number: 289029 - download as .ics The exhibition "Between success and persecution - Jewish stars in German sport until 1933 and afterwards
The biographies of soccer pioneer Walther Bensemann, ten-time German athletics champion Lilli Henoch, national soccer player Julius Hirsch, Israeli and later German national basketball coach Ralph Klein, Olympic fencing champion Helene Mayer, world chess champion Emanuel Lasker, boxing champion Erich Seelig, German tennis champion Nelly Neppach, German javelin champion Martha Jacob, track and field athlete Gretel Bergmann, Olympic gymnastics champions Alfred and Gustav Felix Flatow, European weightlifting and wrestling champions Julius and Hermann Baruch, ice hockey player Rudi Ball and German national soccer player Gottfried Fuchs. With the swimmer Sarah Poewe, the exhibition also offers a glimpse into the future and establishes an important link to the present. Poewe was the first Jewish athlete to win an Olympic bronze medal for Germany after the end of the Second World War, in 2004 in Athens.
The exhibition was developed and presented on the occasion of the European Maccabi Games in Berlin, which were held in Germany for the first time in 2015. The idea and concept were developed by Norbert Niclauss (BKM) and Olliver Tietz (DFB Cultural Foundation). The authors and curators are: Dr. Berno Bahro, Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Teichler (both Potsdam), Prof. Dr. Lorenz Peiffer (Hanover), Dr. Henry Wahlig (Dortmund). Since then, the exhibition has been shown in numerous German cities.
