Tag: Commemorative culture
Interview on German politics of remembrance with historian Frank Trentmann – Culture
Frank Trentmann, born in Hamburg in 1965, went to Great Britain to study as a young man and then went on to the USA. He teaches history at Birkbeck, University…
Ukraine: On its knees
The government in Kiev is building a national military cemetery modeled on Arlington in the USA. The central memorial is intended to commemorate a touching Ukrainian ritual. source site
Munich sociologist researches right-wing extremist terror – Munich
On the walls there are drawings with the faces and names of nine people: Armela, Can, Dijamant, Guiliano, Hüseyin, Roberto, Sabine, Selçuk, Sevda. Nine Munich residents, the majority still children,…
On the scandal surrounding the writer Masha Gessen – Culture
The city of Bremen has canceled the celebrations for the awarding of the Hannah Arendt Prize to Masha Gessen, and the Green Party-affiliated Heinrich Böll Foundation has also withdrawn from…
Kempten: Contemporary witnesses remember the Nazi era – Bavaria
Some memories are burned into your memory, like that of the Jewish woman at the weekly market. This weekly market in Kempten was closed to Jews during the Nazi era.…
Politics in Bavaria: "These places are not purification centers"
Jörg Skriebeleit, head of the concentration camp memorial in Flossenbürg, is confronted with a wave of anti-Semitism. He demands that a culture of remembrance should not only look back, but…
The last generation sprayed the Brandenburg Gate – culture
In the meantime, one can no longer avoid stating this: the women and men of the “last generation” are really the biggest pain in the ass. For a while they…