The Passagen-project originated at the University of Leiden in the year 2000. In the beginning it concerned a controversy about the German theater play Passage by the DDR-writer Christoph Hein. This play and its name go back to the Jewish writer and critic Walter Benjamin, who died under Nazi persecution, and to his famous Passagen-Werk.

The Passage(n)-project contains many different aspects and activities:

- in the first place a very serious and well-documented whistleblower-case about censuring and intimidation at the University of Leiden.

- Second, it is a research project about Walter Benjamin and his work as well as the anti-Semitism in the play Passage (in German: www.passagenproject.com/inhalt.html)

- Third, it is an artistic project, with a satirical German/Dutch/English/Latin text collage and flute concerts and other artistic activities in Leiden.

Politically the project is a revolt against intolerance and narrow-mindedness at the University of Leiden and in society and fights for the right of critical thinking. Recently the project is mainly concerned with the members of the neo-conservative and anti-Islamic Burke Foundation at Leiden University ( see www.passagenproject.com/neoconservatism.html )

Contact and more information via email on the Passagenproject- weblog