2011 Inter-stage Teacher Training on Commemoration in Hamburg finished

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Prof. Dr. Andreas Körber

From December 8th to 10th, 2011, a mixed group of teachers and trainees from different stages of teacher education (initial, second phase, in-service) met first at the Landesinstitut in Hamburg and at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp memorial study center, in order to continue a course titles “the presence of the past. Correct Commemoration?”, led by Lisa Rosa-Robra (Landesinstitut Hamburg) and Prof. Dr. Andreas Körber (Hamburg University).

The course initially started in May 2011 (26th to 28th) with a first 2 1/2-day-block, in which the mixed group explored the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial and focused on their own learning in this venture. For this, TeacMem methods like “mini exhibitions” and “stimulated recall” excercise were used in addition to project didactics.

In the second block in December, the participants developed teaching concepts for their respective classes. Both seminar-blocks were bound together by using a weblog titled “Projektseminar an der KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme”.

Andreas Körber

New Dispute over Holocaust Commemoration (Ukraine/Canada)

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Prof. Dr. Andreas Körber

There is a new dispute over Commemorating the Holocaust going on in Canada, involving Ukraine. It is especially about comparing vs. equalizing the Holocaust and Ukrainian Nationalist involvement and the Ukrainian Famime of 1932-1933.
Ukrainian Institutions in Canada protest against plans for a permanent exhibition on the Holocaust. In turn, a group of historians protest against the implications and the way of this protest.

Here is a link to the historians’ protest on German “H-SOZ-U_KULT”-Forum:

The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, and the Canadian Museum of Human Rights

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Article on American Muslims visiting Auschwitz Birkenau in August 2010 in German Newspaper

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Prof. Dr. Andreas Körber

The German Newspaper “Die WELT” holds an article on American Muslims having visited Auschwitz Birkenau memorial in August 2010:

Schmid, Thomas: “Wie amerikanische Muslime Auschwitz erleben.” In: DIE WELT 14.8.2010

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Hamburg Germany: Again dispute over wartime memorial

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Prof. Dr. Andreas Körber

The Hamburg (Germany) tabloid “Hamburger Morgenpost” today has an article in its online edition about a wartime memorial in Hamburg-Rahlstedt, which is disputed:

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“RAHLSTEDT

Zoff um die Kriegerdenkmäler

Mahnung oder Glorifizierung? Linke will kritische Aufarbeitung, CDU sieht keine Kriegsverherrlichung. VON ERIK TRÜMPLER”

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Gedenken und Erinnern in Deutschland: Der Streit um Gleichsetzung oder Differenzierung von Drittem Reich und DDR

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Prof. Dr. Andreas Körber

Heute ein Artikel in der taz:

Nazi ist nicht gleich Stasi

In Mittelsachsen übermalte ein Rentner eine Denkmalinschrift. In seinen Augen setzt sie die beiden deutschen Diktaturen undifferenziert gleich. Ein Streit, der andauert.

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Österreich: Ö1-Radiokolleg

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Prof. Dr. Andreas Körber

Radiokolleg – Erinnerungskulturen: Wie an wen wo erinnert wird

eine Meldung aus edumeres

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Dancing “I will survive” in Auschwitz and other KZ-memorials

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Prof. Dr. Andreas Körber

The German Newspaper “die tageszeitung” today reports on a youtube-video by an Australian artist showing her grandfather, who survived Auschwitz and Groß-Rosen, dancing to the disco-hit “I will survice” at KZ-memorial sites, and about a discussion about the adecuateness of such a behaviour:

http://www.taz.de/1/netz/netzkultur/artikel/1/disco-dancing-in-auschwitz/

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I Will Survive: Dancing Auschwitz

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Lisa Rosa

Watch this video : On a recent trip to Europe, a family of three generations (a Holocaust survivor, his daughter and his grandchildren) dance to Gloria Gaynor’s pop song – ‘I Will Survive’ at concentration camps and memorials throughout Europe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUvo5OHH6o8&feature=related

How does it strike you?

I think I like it. It is so wonderful anti-sacral. If anyone is allowed to dance there, than the survivors and their families. But what will other survivors say? And is it wise to make a stage out of the memorial site on which every survivor and his/her offsprings can do what they want? To whom belongs a momeorial site and a site of crime? What do the memorial peadagogies reckon? I’m very curious!

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Historians criticize the new shaping of “Ehrenmahl Laboe”

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Lisa Rosa

The memory site in Laboe near Kiel is a hero memory site of the Wehrmacht marines - it mingles perpetrators and victims and is an overwhelming presentation instead of a presentation which facilitates “reflected history conciousness” – say five historians (e.g. Detlev Garbe) about the new presentation in Laboe.

http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/de/fulltext/57849

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A novel about routinization of remembrance