A student poster exhibition organized by the Institute for Anglophone Studies showcased the history of the former Amerika-Haus Ruhr in Essen. Built after World War II as a symbol of German-American friendship, it served as a place of freedom and culture. The exhibition was created in cooperation with the “Haus der Essener Geschichte” / City Archive and as part of the RUDESA project. The Radboud University Duisburg-Essen Spring Academy (RUDESA) has been jointly organized since 2015 by the American Studies departments at Radboud University (Nijmegen, NL) and UDE as an annual spring academy for master’s students.

In 2025, the UDE opened the “Room of Silence” on the Essen campus, a shared, interdenominational space for reflection and retreat. Its artistic design emerged from a student art-in-architecture ideas competition: In 2020, Prof. Susanne Weirich, a visual artist and faculty member at the UDE’s Institute of Art and Art History, conceived the seminar “Urban Montages—Student Ideas Competition for the Room of Silence.” A panel of experts selected six of the submitted designs. The exhibition displayed the artistic designs on-site on digital monitors. Last year, it was held at the GW/GSW Library on the Essen campus.

In cooperation with the AStA, the University Library presented the traveling exhibition “White Rose – Student Resistance Against Hitler in Munich” at the LK Library in Duisburg.

The exhibition commemorates the resistance of the student group “White Rose” and highlights their actions against the Nazi regime. Text and image panels document the group’s formation, its connections to other members of the opposition, and the persecution of its members by the Nazi judiciary.

Further information:

• To the website “Weiße Rose Stiftung e.V.“

At the initiative of members of parliament and their political parties, the German Bundestag’s traveling exhibition made stops in constituencies across the country  – for example, at city halls, schools, banks, savings banks, and cultural centers.

Thanks to a virtual 360-degree tour, interested visitors could take a look behind the scenes of the Bundestag’s buildings. Display boards and monitors provided information about the parliament and its members. A multimedia guide was available via visitors’ own smartphones. In addition, an augmented reality app allowed visitors to virtually enter the plenary chamber in the Reichstag building.

Further information:

• Information of the German Bundestag about the travelling exhibition
• Official Flyer about the travelling exchibition
• Press release of the UDE