An exhibition by the Berlin Peace Library with texts by Simone Weil gets to the bottom of the causes of violence and injustice. It can be seen in Greifswald Cathedral from June 15 to the end of August.

The exhibition looks at the world in search of the causes of violence and injustice. It sheds light on the problem of uprooting, the characteristics of which it relentlessly names: war and environmental destruction, arms sales, the omnipotence of money and the desire for enrichment, the playing off of one poor person against another. The visible victims of this disease today are the dead of the wars, the marginalized and the increasing number of refugees, including uprooted people, from whom Europe wants to close its borders.
The most important consideration of the exhibition remains the question of rootedness: how can people put down roots?
Simone Weil (1909 - 1943), philosopher, author, herself a victim of Hitler and his system, astutely identifies the causes and consequences of uprooting in her texts. She believed in a God who accompanied her in her experience of powerlessness. For her, uprooting is "the most dangerous disease of human society. ... Rootedness is perhaps the most important and most recognized need of the human soul."
The traveling exhibition, which was made available by the Peace Library of the Protestant Church in Berlin-Brandenburg, will be shown in the north aisle of Greifswald Cathedral and opened after the church service on June 15, 2025.