Tag: Culture of remembrance
Five for Munich: Generational conversation and guest performance – Munich
Remember There are only a few survivors of National Socialism who can personally report on that terrible time. What should remembrance work look like so that future generations also learn…
The place of remembrance for those murdered by the NSU belongs in Berlin – opinion
Every attack by the terrorist group NSU was also an attack on the open, free society. That’s why a central, easily accessible place of remembrance is so important. Nobody wants…
“55 Voices for Democracy” series: pincer attack from right and left – culture
In the fall of 1940, the British radio station BBC asked the German Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann to write short radio lectures in his Californian exile that were broadcast…
Commemoration in Munich: Aunt Olga brings the family together. – Munich
Because she was Jewish, Olga Maier was murdered in 1942. Relatives from halfway around the world travel to Munich because the city remembers them with memorial signs and exhibitions. And…
Shinkichi Tajiri in the Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht: What his art reminds us of – culture
Although it has fortunately become more complicated to talk about origins, artists are still happy to provide them. The name Shinkichi Tajiri requires three nations to do justice to a…
Fate of the Sinti and Roma under National Socialism: Würzburg street fighting
Should a conductor with brown spots on his tailcoat continue to be honored with street names? Or does a dancer whose career was destroyed by the Nazis deserve much more?…
“Reparation Jew” by Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg: Misery and double standards – culture
“My poem is my knife” was the name of a poetry anthology in the 1960s. That always sounded a bit like paper tiger. Now a book has been published that…
Prantl’s view: 60 years of the Auschwitz trial – politics
The Auschwitz trial began sixty years ago. This was, for twenty months, a look into hell on earth. Sixty years ago, shortly before Christmas, a criminal trial began that had…
Politics in Bavaria: Söder travels to Israel – Bavaria
Markus Söder will soon have been in office for six years and before him there was probably no Prime Minister who visited more beer tents. In the 2023 election year…
Medicine: The great human talent of making everyday life out of almost anything
November, gloom, everything as usual – wasn’t there something? During the pandemic, the state of emergency was routine. As soon as it’s over, it becomes a vague memory. It’s a…