Intertwined Memories
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| 10 EUR / reduced 5 EUR plus exhibition ticket |
| Duration: 90 min |
| 14 years and older |
| German |
| Ethnologisches Museum, 2. OG |
| 25 persons |
| Belongs to: Ethnological Collections and Asian Art |
On 12 February 1933, two weeks after the National Socialists came to power, a photo series appeared in the Berliner Illustrierte featuring white models wearing jewellery from ethnological collections. The famous Berlin photographer Yva (Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon) staged the style of the ‘Neue Frau’ from the Weimar Republic alongside objects from colonial contexts, thereby creating something new. Art historian Marta Oliveira Sonius and historian Tom Werner present the objects alongside the avant-garde photographer’s historical photographs, discuss contemporary perspectives on the works, and situate them within the intertwined history of colonialism and the Holocaust in the ethnological collections.
Participants
Marta Oliveira Sonius holds a Master’s Degree in History of Art and in Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Ancient Americas from the Freie Universität Berlin. Currently, she works as a freelance museum educator at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin and as a research assistant at the Catholic University Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Tom Werner is a historian who has been active in the field of political and historical education for many years. For about 10 years, he has been working intensively on various projects related to colonialism and how we deal with it. He occasionally translates texts from English and Italian.