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
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.