Intertwined Memories
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| 120 € per group |
| Please book the workshop by telephone on +49 30 99 211 89 89 or by e-mail to [email protected]. |
| Duration: 240 min |
| 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 13th grade |
| English, German, Portuguese, Spanish |
| Ethnologisches Museum, 2. OG |
| max. 30 persons |
| Belongs to: Ethnological Collections and Asian Art |
What traces of the colonial and National Socialist past can be found in the Humboldt Forum? With the help of theater pedagogical methods, pupils explore ethnological exhibits and their impact in the context of the unique history of the place, which has been marked by many upheavals. They encounter a sculpture of the Cameroonian Queen Mother Naya, which was stolen by a German colonial officer in 1905 and presented in 1933 in a National Socialist propaganda show.
Biographical links also become apparent in the case of the anthropologist Eugen Fischer: during the colonial era, he “researched” in Namibia and in 1933, now Rector of Berlin University, he appeared as a central player in the book burning.
The workshop was created as part of the Collaborative Museum and was developed together with educators from Israel, Jamaica, Namibia and Rwanda. It offers pupils the opportunity to engage with the Shoah and the crimes of colonialism from multiple perspectives. They also discuss the horizons of a solidary culture of remembrance in a present characterized by diversity and stage their own responses.
