Research process »Zwangsarbeit und Widerstand«
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Kampnagel has stood for contemporary performance, dance and theatre for 40 years. But the history of the site goes back much further: the factory's past under National Socialism has been little analysed to date. The crane manufacturer Nagel & Kaemp became ‘Kampnagel AG’ in 1934 and was converted into an armaments factory between 1939 and 1945 - with hundreds of forced labourers housed in six company-owned camps. Over the past two years, Kampnagel has undertaken an intensive process to come to terms with the history of the site - a long overdue step. The artistic research team led by Sophia Hussain and Simone Rozalija Thiele has looked at lost profits from the war economy, site plans, eyewitness accounts, options for action and historical contexts, over 500 biographies of forced labourers, countless gaps and, last but not least, ways of documenting and communicating.
