Exhibition research display object 19: Gorleben Archiv

The Gorleben Archive is located in the municipality of Lüchow and was founded in 2001. It is dedicated to the history of nuclear resistance in the Wendland region, covering the period from the identification of the waste storage site in 1977 when Gorleben was declared a provisional site for a “nuclear waste disposal center,” until it was excluded from the extended search for a nuclear waste repository in 2020 and beyond. It is still unclear where the nuclear waste currently stored in the Gorleben interim storage facility will be stored over the long term, so documents regarding this future site will also be archived here.

One of the aims of the archive, which was initiated by activists themselves and is supported by numerous volunteers, is to comprehensively preserve and disseminate knowledge about the anti-nuclear movement and to organise the archive material for research and public use. Within the framework of SALT. CLAY. ROCK., their volunteers and employees were helpful contact people and, among other things, provided numerous loans for our Fall 2023 research assembly. Board member Gabriele Haas also took part in our assembly as a speaker. The artist Anna Witt, who is involved in the exhibition, researched at the archive for her work that looks at solidarity-based action in activism.