8. November 1939
The Johann Georg Elser Memorial stands in Munich’s Maxvorstadt, where aluminium and glass form a striking circular installation. Its wheelchair-accessible setting presents a tribute to individual resistance.
Johann Georg Elser planned his attempt alone over several months, hollowing out a pillar near the Bürgerbräukeller stage. The bomb targeted Adolf Hitler on 8 November 1939, but the explosion missed him by thirteen minutes. Silke Wagner’s design turns that date into a ring of figures, shaped like an expanding blast. The work connects a carpenter’s careful preparation with his opposition to Nazi tyranny.
At 21:20, the historical detonation time, the figures illuminate one after another. They glow for one minute, then disappear into the night. Elser was later executed at Dachau shortly before the war ended, leaving this bright circle as a reminder of resistance carried out by one person.
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