Shadow Play
Each club has one goal,
Be it bowling, boxing, billiards.
In our case as it is called
the chess game keeps to the spirit.
But if this is not presentShadow Play
Each club has one goal,
Be it bowling, boxing, billiards.
In our case as it is called
the chess game keeps to the spirit.
But if this is not present
So the beautiful purpose will be ruined.
However nature in its goodness
Brings comfort also for this to the mind.
Therefore the rich in fortune gave us instead of big heads big bellies.

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Schattenspiel
Seis Kegeln, Boxen, Billardspiel.
In unserem Falle wie es heißt
hält sich das Schachspiel an den Geist.
Ist dieser aber nicht vorhanden
So wird der schöne Zweck zuschanden.
Jedoch Natur in ihrer Güte
Bringt Trost auch hierfür dem Gemüte.
Drum gab uns der Erfindungsreiche statt große Köpfe große Bäuche.

Audio Schattenspiel

Searching for traces of a communist in times of the Hitler regime
Albrecht Vogt was born on February 25, 1890 in Ulm-Söflingen as the third child of the brewery owner Albrecht Vogt and Theresia, born Goll. Before the outbreak of the war, Vogt studied philology in Erlangen, then became a soldier and was injured in the last year of the war. He then worked as a language teacher in Ulm and lived with his mother at Heimstättenstraße 46, the building next door to my parents house.
To his circle of friends, whose meeting place was the restaurant „Hecht“, he dedicated numerous humorous dialect poems, which appeared in 1920 in small print runs. In 1934/35 he became a member of a communist resistance group. Together with Josef Stadelmann, another teacher from Ulm, he wrote several leaflets critical of the Nazis, in which, among other things, the police chief Dreher was attacked and ridiculed. The group met in Vogt’s apartment, printing was done in Eugen Blessing’s nursery.
A denunciation led to the arrest of eight members at the beginning of June 1935, and on September 22, 1937, Albrecht Vogt was sentenced by the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court to five years in prison for „high treason.“ After serving his sentence, Vogt was not released – as was often the case for political opponents of the regime – but was sent to the Flossenbürg concentration camp by the Stuttgart Gestapo on February 27, 1943. Shortly thereafter, on April 27, the camp administration registered his death, which was immediately reported to Söflingen and entered in the family register there.

His relatives and friends stood by him: in the obituary, the mother and the surviving relatives declared astonishingly publicly: „Söflingen, May 3, 1943. (…) We are sincerely grateful for condolence visits.“ A registrar later documented in handwriting in the same family register for posterity: „Murdered in concentration camp“.

In 2017, a memorial stone (Stolperstein) was set up in front of the house after several historians begun their research on the group around Albrecht Vogt, whose identity was registered only by the removal of his gravestone in 2010.
As the historians have still many questions about Albrecht Vogt and the political group, I started my research with all the material I got from neighbors now living in Heimstättenstraße 46 and began my own research on the group and understand this mystic as an ghost story to tell by video. I primarily use a night cam to investigate about the happenings and follow the traces at night by taking moving images at the places already known where Albrecht Vogt and his group met and fought against the Hitler regime.