Between colonialism and the Holocaust
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| free admission plus entrance fee |
| Meeting point F |
| 14 years and older |
| German |
| 2nd Floor, Berlin Exhibition, 1st floor |
| max. 25 persons |
The tour focuses on the relationships between German colonialism, the Holocaust, and anti-Slavic racism. The starting points for this are the ethnological collections exhibited on the second and third floors of the Humboldt Forum and the history of the Berlin Palace. Cultural historian Agnieszka Pufelska, artist Anna Krenz, and educators Christian Hajer and Patrick Helber accompany the group through biographies, places, and collections. In the process, interconnections between colonial practices emerge that arose and became intertwined in both overseas colonialism and the structures of power and violence within Europe. The tour opens up space to examine these connections together and engage in conversation. It is inspired by the collaborative educational project “Intertwined Memories: Traces of the Shoah and Colonialism in the Berlin Palace and the Ethnological Collections.”
Participants
Agnieszka Pufelska
PD Dr Agnieszka Pufelska is a research associate at the Northeast Institute of the University of Hamburg (Lüneburg) and a private lecturer at the University of Potsdam. The cultural historian specialises in the history of German-Polish cultural ties and modern Jewish history. She has published on topics including anti-Semitism, images of history and national identity constructions. She is currently researching the appropriation of Prussian cultural heritage in Polish museums.
Anna Krenz
Born in Poznań, Poland, in 1976, artist, architect, author, and activist Anna Krenz has lived in Berlin since 2003. She is the founder of the Dziewuchy Berlin collective and the Ambasada Polek e.V. Since 2001, she has been collaborating with the Danish Center for Renewable Energy – Folkecenter for Renewable Energy on sustainable development projects. Anna Krenz is part of the women’s project studio Sinus_3, which combines architecture, ecology, visual arts, and public space design. From 2003 to 2012, she was co-director of the ZERO gallery in Berlin. Together with Ewa Maria Slaska and Jemek Jemowit, she conceived and realized the open space “Freedom, Equality, Solidarność” at BERLIN GLOBAL.
Christian Hajer
Christian Hajer, born in Switzerland, studied landscape planning and urban and regional planning in Berlin and Venice. He has worked in planning communication for the Topography of Terror, the Federal Chancellery, Tempelhof Airport and the Humboldt Forum. His current areas of interest include climate adaptation and sustainable urban development.
Since the 1990s, he has been travelling as a freelance speaker and consultant for international delegations on planning issues in Berlin and the region.
Patrick Helber
Patrick Helber studied History and Political Science in Tübingen and Dublin and received his PhD in Modern and Contemporary History in Heidelberg in 2014. His book “Dancehall and Homophobia” is about postcolonial perspectives on Jamaican history and culture. He lives in Berlin, works at the Ethnological Museum as a research assistant in the field of education and outreach, and hosts a radio program on Caribbean popular culture. In addition, Patrick Helber has been putting out reggae, ska and dancehall on vinyl under the name Scampylama Sound since 2003.