Who occurs from the heat of the horse market into the semi-darkness of the St.-Nicolai-Church ship, to the expected after the obligatory Corona-protection measures Coolness and silence. With countless Hand-labeled post cards draped huge wall and large-format portrait photos, the visitors immediately into the eye.

loses immediately in the reading, reads the scout master "cross flag", as well as the former VfL handball head of Department Manfred Herzog, the Hamelin Board, or the senior theater group, Christine Gleiss in the Breckehof.

"More than 200 stories have been written Hameln to date on the use of others for the common good," explains Ulrike Schimmelpfeng. The 57-year-old chaplain is since two and a half years in the market Church in Holtensen active.

the exhibition was Created as part of one of the country Church and the Hildesheimer "Vision of Church music" by Silke Linden Schmidt and Ulf Pankoke-designed "Music education program".

"The state in connection with the concert project ,Hameln requiems', which was actually conceived as a convertible concert theatre and the market Church, to the destruction of the market Church at 5. April 1945, and the commitment of time involved in the Hameln and Hameln interior should remember,“ says Schimmelpfeng. As a result of the Corona pandemic, the concert had been moved, however tentatively, to November 2021.

"I have very many of those know," says Ruth Hebisch. Has cared for with her husband for many decades, the Church concerts and is a few days after their 90. Birthday on an afternoon visit in St. Nicolai for coming in.

"In this exhibition, everyone can join", so Schimmelpfeng. "Just write the story of your engagement, or of someone you know, on the available post cards and be part of the exhibition!" Religious affiliation plays no role.

"to have a motivating character," emphasizes Schimmelpfeng. And who in the process of reading the pinned post card contributions engrossed, which recognizes, in fact, quickly, how wide is the citizenship of the scattered Engagement in Hameln.

Together with the impressive large-scale photographs by the artist Anna-Kristina Bauer, an image of the experienced and the lived - in and commitment For and with each other is formed. "Especially in a time in which you talk often about the fact that the Occurrence of for each other wanes, this exhibition is an important function," says Schimmelpfeng.

During the lock downs, a Online was also created-exhibition www.wir-fuer-hameln.de . "It shows pictures and stories on the subject in the moving animations and Cinemagraphs by Anna Kristiana Bauer and Andreas Graf."

The exhibition is "Hameln" is on display during the Church opening hours Wednesdays to Sundays, from 12 to 16 o'clock. The admission is free. In the Church of the well-known hygiene rules apply.

This article was written by Ernst August Wolf

*The contribution of """We will be told for Hameln" stories about the involvement of volunteers," published by Dewezet. Contact with the executives here.