In this seminar we will systematically investigate communicative and artistic concepts of selected memorial sites by comparing them with one another and analysing their modes of action. Additionally we will classify these concepts historically and try to examine their transferability with regard to other contexts.A peculiar progression of history: In recent decades the country of perpetrators has become a country with a highly differentiated culture of remembrance considered with much interest and respect in other countries. Most interesting are those public memorials and places of remembrance, which distinguish themselves via their comparably unconventional formal concepts by which a sustainable reflection on historical events is to be induced.There are quite a few more recent and historical memorials and monuments within the inner part of the city of Berlin, which, in manifold ways, invoke public remembrance regarding diverse topics. In this seminar we will systematically investigate communicative and artistic concepts of selected memorial sites by comparing them with one another and analyzing their modes of action. Additionally we will classify these concepts historically and try to examine their transferability with regard to other contexts. The focus of the seminar will be on monuments and memorials that deal predominantly with the years 1933-1945 as well as the post-war period. The goal of the course is to give participants an overview of the current discourse on public culture of remembrance.

Course leader
Michael Fehr has been Professor and Director of the Institute for Art in Context at the Berlin University of Fine Arts from 2005-2014, and Director of the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum of the City of Hagen, from 1987 to 2005. Prior to that he was assistant Pr

Course aim
Monday, July 27, 2015Meeting point:Institut fr Kunst im KontextUniversitt der Knste BerlinEinsteinufer 43-5310597 Berlin, Room 307Bus-stop Marchbrcke (Bus 245)9:30 am:Gathering10 am 12:30 pm:Introduction into the issues of the seminarBerlin University of the Arts, Einsteinufer, Room 272 6 pm: Excursion IGedenksttte Berliner Mauer / Bernauer StraeCheckpoint CharlieBlackBox Kalter KriegTopographie des TerrorsTuesday, July 249.30 am 6 pm: Excursion II (by bike)Ort des geplanten Freiheits- und EinheitsdenkmalsDenkmal zur Erinnerung an die Bcherverbrennung (1995)Denkzeichen Georg Elser (2011)Denkmal fr die Ereignisse des 17. Juni 1953 (2003)Denkmal fr Karl Liebknecht (1951)Denkmal fr die im Nationalsozialismus verfolgten Homosexuellen (2008)Denkmal fr die ermordeten Juden Europas (2005)Gedenkort "Weie Kreuze" (1971/2003)Denkmal fr die im Nationalsozialismus ermordeten Sinti und Roma Europas (2012)Denkmal zur Erinnerung an 96 von den Nationalsozialisten ermordete Reichstagsabgeordnete (1992)Sowjetisches Ehrenmal (Tiergarten)Siegesallee (Puppenallee)Gedenkort Aktion T 4 (2008/2014)Gedenksttte Deutscher Widerstand (1952/1980/2014)Gedenkort SA-Gefngnis mit Geschichtsparcours General-Pape-Strae und Schwerbelastungskrper (Germania)Wednesday, July 2510 am 5 pm: Excursion III:Haus der Wannsee-KonferenzBayrisches Viertel / Ausstellung "Wir waren Nachbarn"Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto WeidtWrap up

Fee info
EUR 350: Course Fee

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