A Conversation with Christoph Mauny
A virtual event from Widen the Circle and the Leo Baeck Institute
This year's Obermayer Awards ceremony was amazing, and we'd like to introduce you to some of the inspiring award winners. Please join us for our online spring series, Conversations with the Winners, as we chat with winners of the 2024 Obermayer Awards. Learn more about the work, perspectives, and personal motivations of these inspiring people.
Obermayer Award winner Christoph Mauny has brought a living culture of remembrance to his community, which is located in the state of Thuringia — an area where the extreme right is especially active. He is smart, thoughtful, and creative, and he has a gift for engaging and inspiring young people.
His impressive projects have included a unique 360-degree video installation at the site of a former synagogue, now a shopping mall, and an ambitious digital “unfinished memorial” to 20,000 forced laborers at the Ohrdruf concentration camp. It features biographies, sketches, and more. Camp Ohrdruf, largely forgotten by locals, was the first camp liberated by the U.S. Army and was visited by General Eisenhower.