Author Archives: Prof. Dr. Andreas Körber

Hamburg Germany: Again dispute over wartime memorial

The Hamburg (Germany) tabloid “Hamburger Morgenpost” today has an article in its online edition about a wartime memorial in Hamburg-Rahlstedt, which is disputed: ” “RAHLSTEDT Zoff um die Kriegerdenkmäler Mahnung oder Glorifizierung? Linke will kritische Aufarbeitung, CDU sieht keine Kriegsverherrlichung. … Continue reading

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

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

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

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 … Continue reading

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Preparatory Meeting for the Second (Copenhagen) Seminar held in Copenhagen

On June, 4th, 2010, the Steering Committee and those partners responsible for the preparation and organization of the Second TeacMem Seminar in Copenhagen, which will focus on Danish memory Culture, met in Copenhagen for a 1 day preparatory meeting.

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German Historian Christian Meier on the Virtue of Non-Remembering – a review

Elisabeth von Thadden on Christian Meier (2010): Das Gebot zu vergessen und die Unabweisbarkeit des Erinnerns. Vom öffentlichen Umgang mit schlimmer Vergangenheit. München: Siedle. http://www.zeit.de/2010/24/L-P-Meier?page=all PDF: http://pdf.zeit.de/2010/24/L-P-Meier.pdf plus commentaries

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German Magazine Online on German Occupation in Scandinavia

“Der Führer ist rasend!”

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TeacMem: The First (Neuengamme) Seminar – Short Report

TeacMem: Developing Competence–Orientated Teaching on Historical Memories   The First (Neuengamme) Seminar – Short Report   On 22nd of March, 2010, 24 members and addressees of the TeacMem Seminar met in the outskirts of Hamburg, at the Study Center of … Continue reading

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German Newspaper: Between Commemorating Perpetrators and Victims

Berliner Holocaustmahnmal Zwischen Täter- und Opfergedenken Das Berliner Holocaustmahnmal wird fünf Jahre alt und die Ausstellung Topographie des Terrors endlich eröffnet. Eine zeitliche Koinzidenz, die neue Perspektiven schafft.

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Aktuelle Debatte in German Newspaper “taz”: Holocaust-Remembrance as a religion?

Das Holocaust-Gedenken ist zu einer Art Religion geworden. Pilgerfahrt nach Auschwitz KOMMENTAR VON IRIS HEFETS in: die tageszeitung 9.3.2010

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