Die Critical Mass zu Gast im Stadtarchiv

Critical What? Since 2010, Critical Mass has also been celebrating the bicycle in Stuttgart on the first Friday of every month to promote the switch to environmentally friendly transportation. This time, the traditional "Aftermass" following the tour will take place in the inner courtyard of the city archive.

As in previous years, we will be presenting a cultural program on the history of cycling in the lecture hall of the city archive at around 9:30 pm. We are very pleased that this time we have been able to attract the Hamburg bicycle historian Lars Amenda. Together with Günter Riederer (Stuttgart City Archive), he will give a "ping-pong lecture" comparing the stages of the bicycle test in Hamburg and Stuttgart. Who will emerge victorious from the first Hamburg-Stuttgart bicycle protest quartet?

Lars Amenda, Dr. phil, historian and author, lives in Hamburg. He is chairman of netzwerk fahrrad/geschichte e.V. and has published numerous books on the social and cultural history of Hamburg in the 19th and 20th centuries, including "Der schwerste Radfahrer der Welt!" Emil Naucke und die Unterhaltungskultur im späten 19. Jahrhundert (together with Gert Nissen), Hamburg 2021, Das Fahrrad im Norden. Flensburg and the surrounding area from 1869 to the present day (together with Gert Nissen), Flensburg 2021 or "Mistresses of our machine". Amalie Rother and the bicycle as a vehicle of feminism in Germany around 1900, in: Georg Spitaler/Petra Sturm (eds.), Sport und Feminismus. Socio-political gender debates from the fin de siècle to the present day, Frankfurt am Main/New York 2025, pp. 69-81.