Event

Reflecting water surfaces, roots growing out of walls, doors opening into empty spaces. The pictures and objects in the exhibition tell stories of sunken worlds.

The loss of thousands of European settlements is one of the most profound traumas and upheavals of the 20th and 21st centuries. The causes of depopulation and the abandonment of entire villages are manifold. They range from social, political and demographic factors to natural disasters.

"Atlantis" is a series of exhibitions that traces the traces of past places in south-eastern Europe. At the DZM, it recalls settlements where German or other minorities once lived - culturally diverse villages and communities that no longer exist today. And as the places disappeared, so did their diversity.

"Atlantis - Sunken Worlds" tells of Lindenfeld and Ada Kaleh in Romania, Gakovo/Gakowa and Kruševlje/Kruschiwl in Serbia, Stari Tabor/Alttabor and Novi Log/Neulag in Slovenia, Završje/Piemonte d'Istria in Croatia and Derenk and Dolina in Hungary. Objects, stories, archive images, sound installations and photographs by the photo artist Frank Gaudlitz allow them to reappear.

The exhibition was realized in cooperation with the Coordination of East Central and South Eastern Europe at the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin, as well as with scientists, museums and research institutions in Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia and Hungary.