A Little Village for a Big, Historic Meeting

In the night of 8 and 9 May, 1945, the American General Stanley E. Reinhart and his Soviet counterpart Dimitri A. Dritschkin met in a private house in the Lower Austrian village of Erlauf to celebrate the victory over Hilter’s army. This historic moment became the starting point for a long and intensive critical engagement with war and history in Erlauf, and is now, for the first time, fully documented and displayed in an exhibition.

The self-proclaimed Friedensgemeinde (peace community) Erlauf, hosts the exhibition "ERINNERUNG.EREIGNIS.KUNST, Geschichte und Gedenkkultur in Erlauf seit 1945" ("Remembrance, Occasion, Art: history and the culture of remembrance in Erauf since 1945"), which gives intensive insight into the connections between contemporary history, commemorative rituals and artistic forms of dealing with the past.

Until 28 September

Mon-Fri: 8:00 - 12:00

Tue: 13:00 - 19:00

Sat 25.8: 9:00 - 16:00

Sun 26.8: 9:00 - 13:00

Gemeindeamt Erlauf

Melker Straße 1

3252 Erlauf

www.publicart.at

How to get there: catch one of the hourly regional express trains from Wien Westbahnhof to Pöchlarn, and then catch a regional train for six minutes to Erlauf. Total trip time: 1 hr 30. The Gemeindeamt is a five-minute walk from the station.