Leipziger Mouten: Uprising in Lederhosen

In the NS-Zeit you can see that ski boots and beautiful leather shoes are a Zeichen of Rebellion. These clothing stores are young people in Leipzig, who will damn well stop entering the Nazi uniforms again in the 30th century. The repression apparatus of the NS state has encountered a new “Gleichtracht”, which has a rotten Halstücher organization, a Dorn in an August case, says the historian Sascha Lange: “Wiederholt sprach de Gestapo Trachtenverbote aus.”

The Bunten Shirts and Lederhosen were Erkennungszeichen der Meuten: Groups of young people, who once fell in Leipziger Stadtteilen gab. If you trade in Kneipen and on Plätzen, you can take a bath or go into the Land. Schätzungen zufolge hörten den Meuten, von denen es eine sehr große Zahl gab, rund 1500 Jugendliche an. 400 since mentlich bekannt. Lange spricht von der »greater informellen Jugendbewegung in Deutschland in jener Zeit«.

A new youth group goes to other German cities. You can investigate the Edelweißpirates in Cologne and elsewhere in the Ruhr area. If these were unpolitical, people in Leipzig dealt with an Arbeiter and Lehrlinge with an often “left-socialist” Selbstverständnis, said Lange. Gleichwohl, the Meuten were not very advanced political groups. Zwar would engrave the text of the Flugblätter verilt or Mitglieder und Heime der Hitlerjugend. I am of the opinion that this is an inapplicability if a wider stand is exploited. »The smallest community of people lives, self-determination, that freedom is spent,« said Lange.

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In the case of an australian dictatorship, the indes would be deutet as a refusal, preventing the system from going to war. In 1938 there were Verhaftungen and Anklagen, parts of the roads Vorbereitung zum Hochverrat. »From the end of 90 youth, we know that they will be dealt with«, says Lange. We must do it in battle or in a Jugendheim.

Trotz des beachtlichen Ausmaßes jugendlicher Verweigerung gegenüber dem NS-Staat in Leipzig und de Meuten in der Stadt bis heute wenig bekannt. In the GDR the “kein Teil der Erinnerungskultur” was established, like Lange. Dort stand der communist Widerstand in Fokus. From 1987 onwards, a History student in Rostock interviewed a small Zeitzeugen. Später also speak with your own initiative, view the protocol of the Gestapo and Acts of Gerichten. The publication was also published in 2019 as standard work and in the Jugendbuch »Bis die Sterne Zitern« by Johannes Herwig, which was built in 2019 in two performances in the theater of Leipzig and the Theater der Jungen Welt (TDJW).

In the house of man, the substance is jetzt erneut: in a project entitled »Sounds of Resistance«, which was released in June and in the summer of 2025 in the first Leipzig Erinnerungssort for the southern world. That’s a solemn and soll, that the Jugendparlament der Stadt beantragt; der Stadtrat fastest 2022 is an excellent Beschluss and stellte Geld bereit. With the Umsetzung that is the TDJW most beautiful, it is worthwhile to use the financial support of the Stiftung Erinnerung, Verantwortung, Zukunft erhält.

Das Projekt, at the house with the Deutschen Oper am Rhein in Duisburg, has bought Ziele, and says Dramaturg Florian Heller. Zum one of the communities with a Gruppe Leipziger Jugendlicher a »erinnerungskulturelles Musiktheaterprojekt« was created, for the renowned Director Schorsch Kamerun who was won during the war. The Leipzig premiere of »Wilde Bühne: Meuten Memorial Movement« took place on April 25, 2025 at the Lindenauer Markt. The name »House of Resistance« will premiere in Duisburg on May 8, 2025. In Leipzig, the offer at the Lindenauer market was brought directly to the theater. A schließlich soll bis Mai 2025 een Klangarchiv entstehen, das Schulklasseen und others Gruppen die Befassung met de Meuten auch unabhängig von konkreten Orten ermöglicht.

An appropriate place for the TDJW is to find the theme. Zum a sind from the Theater nur wenige Meter to the Georg-Schwarz-Straße, the end of the 1930s begins with Kinos, Kneipen and Eiscafés when the “Reeperbahn” war began. They war Treffpunkt for the gleichnamige Meute, one of the largest in the city with its 100 Jugendlichen. If you ask me, Lange writes, with a sense of self-consciousness that “they are open to living space and are living in a state youth environment.” First a great angel in June 1939 was an end.

Zum others work with the theme Meuten for youth, with the theater involved in the project, many active old punks, such as Florian Heller. Interesting if you are 90 years old and can be used in späteren Jahrzehnten and are the best dress codes you can use: »I can also remember the times, as a man who knows the Gesinnung an der Schnürsenkelfarbe.« Exciting as heck, who is wichtig der The convenience of most people who want to achieve this and who have their sales: »It is a woman who appears in the digital Raum.«

Ronja Kindler wiederum, Theaterpädagogin in Meuten-Projekt, found the Frage interesting, “was es braucht, um den Mut aufzubringen, sich einzusetzen”, and welche Rolle Gruppen spielen, if it is a political position they say. It is one of the biggest problems in a “sehr zeitgemäße” Frage. Rebel could go free with unjustified motives; The spectrum empire of Klimaklebern has been widely recognized by the young Nazis as the most successful system. It is possible that this project project will be carried out by the Theatermacher tonight. »We will have a political Haltung, democracy und menschenrechte in de Mittelpunkt Stellt«, said Kindler. When TDJW says that he has “kein Ort, an dem sich Leute with festigtem Rechtem Weltbild wahlfühlen würden”.

For the dramaturges and their colleges, the project will be halted for some time. So it is the Geschichte der Meuten that will become one of the main protagonists. It is a matter of a group name with its disinterested activities, which makes it impossible to do anything. “I’m not sure if it’s possible or not, that’s an individual biographies,” said Lange. It is good to know that it is possible to pay attention to the »Vielstimmigration«: »Dafür ist Schorsch Kamerun and ohnehin bekannt.«

An exciting fragment is one of the nice »Memorial« for most people. A classic commemoration with Stele and Scripture Table was again appropriate for the Historiker nor the Theater Leute. Ronja Kindler is pleased with the “living experience of the young people and their participation in their lives”. And Sascha Lange said that it is “very understandable” if the mobs were “anchored in the collective Memorial of Leipzig”. This is not the case if you want to view a »Visualization in the cityscape«. In the 1989 Wendeherbst a small spazier corridor was added to the ring. The Jugendopposition in the NS-Zeit could keep women with a good festival in mind. Bunte ski shirts and lederhosen may no longer be used.

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