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. Historian Patrick Helber and educator Christian Hajer 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
Christian Hajer 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 studied history and political science in Tübingen and Dublin and received his doctorate in modern and contemporary history in Heidelberg in 2014. He then worked as a trainee at the Museum Neukölln and as a research assistant for education and outreach at the German Historical Museum in Berlin. Since 2021, he has been curator for education and outreach at the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin at the Humboldt Forum, where he and his colleagues are responsible for the collaborative outreach project “Intertwined Memories. Traces of the Shoah and Colonialism in Berlin Palace and the Ethnological Collections”, which develops education programs in collaboration with partners from Rwanda, Namibia, Jamaica, Israel, and other countries.